Subject: [ALUG] Newbie needs advice on wireless

[Mr. Adam ALLEN]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:47 +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:

> I have had success with little or no effort with various USB ethernet
> thingies, but sadly cannot tell you which ones as they were unbranded
> el-cheapo purchased in an emergency from a local computer shop.
> 

Perhaps this is just down to individual hardware, but worth a post of
caution in any case. I used a DLINK-USB (DUSB-E100) Ethernet dongle with
an old-ish 2.6.12 kernel...

Every time the link dropped the only way to restore connectivity was
with a rmmod/modprobe dance. (I'm not sure if it was the Dlink DSL-300T
on the other end that caused the problems- but that's another piece of
kit I wouldn't recommend).

Upgrading that machine to Fedora Core 6, and I couldn't get *any*
traffic out of the Dlink USB (2.6.18 kernel)... Can't remember now if
the link came up or not. Downgrading to the last of the FC5 kernels...
and it works. 


If I had a choice again I'd choose something other than the DUSB-E100.
(Of course the "other" might use the same broken chipset/be completely
unsupported... but that's life).



Regards,
Adam