Asking your thoughts on wireless connection problem.

[djgoku]

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