Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $40.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.16-gentoo-r9
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Distribution:
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Gentoo
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There are a lot of conflicting and confusing opinions about the drivers
for this USB NIC, so I eventually chose the rt2570 kernel module from
the Rt2x00 Project website
rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page which was installed as
gentoo ebuild net-wireless/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1 and required full
pre-built kernel sources.<br>
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The docs on the Gentoo Hardware Wiki gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500
mentioned that some kernel options can cause a kernel lockup, namely
IO-APIC and pre-empting, so these were disabled before building.<br>
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The USB NIC booted first time, got configured and ran without any problems at all. :)<br>
It started with 128 bit WEP talking to a Linksys WAG354G adsl 802.11g
router with MAC access restrictions, and connected with no errors.<br>
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Next attempts will be to add netfilter kernel patches and to rebuild the kernel with the IO-APIC option enabled.<br>
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Apart from the time spent searching for successful installations, everything was very brief and satisfying.<br>
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