proxim usb wifi and ubuntu

Jason D. Clinton me at jasonclinton.com
Fri Feb 16 13:31:32 CST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:13 -0600, David Ambs wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Luke -Jr wrote:
> > Also, it works like crap. I need to restart my Atheros interface like 10 times
> > before it connects properly.
> 
> I don't know about the legalities of madwifi, but I do agree that Atheros 
> chipsets are crap, I would not buy another one.. even though it was 
> only $20. =]
> 
> It was easy to get setup and running, but overall was very unreliable. At 
> times I would have to reboot the box just to get the POS working again. It 
> was running in a Xen dom0 though, so I didn't really figure out if that 
> was causing any of the issues or not. I ended up deciding to snake a cable 
> through the basement to the box, and throw the card in the trash. Works 
> much better.

Same experience here.

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