Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 10 April 2009 17:29:37 Bob McGowan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:51 +, Glyn Astill wrote: > > On a side note does anyone have any good links for getting an etch > > machine onto a WPA network? I tried everything I could find on the net > > and got nowhere last night, tried tons of stuff

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:51 +, Glyn Astill wrote: > On a side note does anyone have any good links for getting an etch machine > onto a WPA network? I tried everything I could find on the net and got > nowhere last night, tried tons of stuff in interfaces and tried using > wpa_supplicant.con

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Glyn Astill
wep ... I'm using an asus 167g usb witha ralink rt2570 driver from module-assistant. --- On Fri, 10/4/09, Onur Aslan wrote: > From: Onur Aslan > Subject: Re: new wireless card > To: "Paul Richards" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, 10 April, 2

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Onur Aslan
If you want to run as AP mode with your wireless card, I dont recommend rt61 chipset cards too. They don't support ap mode with current rt2x00 drivers. But, FreeBSD is working fine AP mode with this cards. Unfortunately if you want to make AP your Debian, you shouldn't buy a rt2x00 based wireless

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Richards
2009/4/10 Kelly Clowers : > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 23:14, steef wrote: >> please can somebody tell me which is the best lenny_compatible wireles >> ethernet card nowadays? > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 01:14, Paul Richards wrote: >> I can recommend that you don't get a Ralink RT2561.  I have one, an

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 23:14, steef wrote: > > > > hello to  you all out there, > > my asus_wireless ethernetcard, chip rt2500 (ralink), is of no use any more. Why not? As far as I can see, rt2500 are pretty well supported in modern kernels. Or do you mean the hardware failed? > please can someb

Re: new wireless card

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Richards
I can recommend that you don't get a Ralink RT2561. I have one, and while it works fine it needs binary drivers[1]. :( Unfortunately I didn't realise this at the time I bought. 1: http://wiki.debian.org/rt61pci 2009/4/10 steef : > > > > hello to  you all out there, > > my asus_wireless ether

new wireless card

2009-04-09 Thread steef
hello to you all out there, my asus_wireless ethernetcard, chip rt2500 (ralink), is of no use any more. please can somebody tell me which is the best lenny_compatible wireles ethernet card nowadays? thank you very much, regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l