Asking your thoughts on wireless connection problem.

[djgoku]

On 11/1/06, djgoku <djgoku at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/06, RtX <riverty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a nice new Acer Laptop. Please don't flame, it was a great
> > deal. I'm dual-booting the machine, Windows for a few online games,
> > Linux (Kubuntu 6.10 64-bit) for everything else. I have a working USB
> > Wireless Adapter based on the rt73 (RaLink) chip. While testing some
> > other distro possibilities, I have had this rt73 adapter working using
> > ndiswrapper and 32-bit Linux. For those who may not know, Kubuntu 6.10
> > Etch is a KDE desktop, has a modular kernel version 2.6.17 and is
> > Debian based.
>
> I know you probably don't use OpenBSD, but I thought it might be of
> interest. Since OpenBSD does have this driver, and it probably
> wouldn't be hard to port to linux instead of uisng ndiswrapper (which
> is a very bad hack).
> Also note: Driver for RT2571 (also known as RT73) based USB wireless
> network cards from: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdr.php?id=225.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rum

For the record OpenBSD isn't Linux. The driver that OpenBSD has will
probably neither compile nor work on Linux without adjustments to the
driver to make it compatible with Linux.