Hi folks,

I'm not sure if I should post this here or in the wireless network thread but as it is to do with the hardware I think here should be fine.

I currently use a DWL-122 wireless dongle for my fedora core 4 network and it works fine. It is however a 802.11b device and I want to upgrade to 802.11g. Now the DWL-G122 usb dongle is the obvious choice but I'd prefer a PCI card for this.

Can someone advise of a 802.11g card which EASILY compatible with linux, is readily available and has a significant range. (The one complaint I have with the DWL-122 is its range) I'd prefer the device to be automatically recognised by linux with no need for linux-wlan-ng or ndiswrapper

Thanks very much

Your best bet are the open source supporting Ralink chipset cards. Check this web site for compatible cards, and the best deals currently available (in the USA, about 3/4 down the page).

While the open source driver is not yet in the mainline kernel, it's installation is very simple. For my Fedora Core 4 system, the instructions are:

cd /usr/local/src/rt2500-*/Module/
make && make install-fedora && depmod -a

After that, the cards can be configured (a one-time operation) with the standard system network configuration tool.

The software and additional information is available here.

Hello, First posting here..
great site!!!

I've been having a day trying to install these drivers. rt2500.ko specifically. I've followed many instructions. AND FINALLY.... through a little of trial and error.. mostly error, they're installed. but they don't install automatically. I have to do it manually everytime. /sbin/insmod rt2500.ko and i have to be in the directory where rt2500.ko is located for this to work. Obviously i'm new to this Linux world. I followed the inclosed instructions with the drivers, and they didn't read very well. I really don't understand why they don't make self installation programs, (like some other os's i know) hint, hint...nudge,,,nudge.
I had to install something called qt to do a qmake on the install for some reason.. that took about a half an hour to do. thank god that thing installed mostly by itself. after all was said and done, the make, and make install, and ./configure didn't seem to do what it was supposed to do. i still had to run the /sbin/insmod rt2500.ko like i said before. THEN i could use the RaConfig2500 file. which did work after all of that. it still won't load at startup, maybe someone has an offering of help for that bit. Next on my list is my Modem. maybe i will spend all of tomorrow to try that.

TonkaTenspeed