WLAN Card under Linux

Hello everyone,

I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under SUSE
9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and other
news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it seems that
this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used without WPA).

Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for LINUX?
Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be interested
in that.


Thanks,
Georg

On 12/15/05 14:45, Georg Schmidt wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under SUSE
> 9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and other
> news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it seems that
> this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used without WPA).
>
> Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for LINUX?
> Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
> Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be interested
> in that.

Did you check < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >

Ciao
Giovanni
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In comp.os.linux.networking Giovanni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On 12/15/05 14:45, Georg Schmidt wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under SUSE
>> 9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and other
>> news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it seems that
>> this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used without WPA).
>>
>> Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for LINUX?
>> Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
>> Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be interested
>> in that.

> Did you check < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >

If possible, wouldn't use ndiswrapper and friends, this is just
something if you can't chose, like a laptop built-in nic or alike
or have already some nic like the OP and don't want to get
another one.

Something with this chipset, which comes with GPL drivers would
be my choice:

Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference
Card (rev 01)

This chipset is used in various in various nics, like MSI.

rt2x00 Open Source Project:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Ralink RT2500 Linux Howto:
http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/

Ralink (Chipset vendor) driver:
http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

Good luck

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Thanks guys,


After compiling and installing the drivers as you suggested, I get as
far being able to connect to an open network. But as soon as WPA is
enabled, it doesn't work.


Georg




Michael Heiming wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.networking Giovanni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
>>On 12/15/05 14:45, Georg Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under SUSE
>>>9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and other
>>>news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it seems that
>>>this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used without WPA).
>>>
>>>Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for LINUX?
>>>Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
>>>Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be interested
>>>in that.
>
>
>>Did you check < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >
>
>
> If possible, wouldn't use ndiswrapper and friends, this is just
> something if you can't chose, like a laptop built-in nic or alike
> or have already some nic like the OP and don't want to get
> another one.
>
> Something with this chipset, which comes with GPL drivers would
> be my choice:
>
> Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference
> Card (rev 01)
>
> This chipset is used in various in various nics, like MSI.
>
> rt2x00 Open Source Project:
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> Ralink RT2500 Linux Howto:
> http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/
>
> Ralink (Chipset vendor) driver:
> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>
> Good luck
>

Georg Schmidt wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
>
> After compiling and installing the drivers as you suggested, I get as
> far being able to connect to an open network. But as soon as WPA is
> enabled, it doesn't work.
>

I'm not familiar with this card, but do you have wpa_supplicant
installed and configured? I think it is likely needed.

Larry

Georg Schmidt wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
>
> After compiling and installing the drivers as you suggested, I get as
> far being able to connect to an open network. But as soon as WPA is
> enabled, it doesn't work.

with an intel ipw2200 on mandriva 2006 it's working less than 15' before it's
freeze with wpa or wpa2 enabled work nice open and wep

>
>
> Georg
>
>
>
>
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.networking Giovanni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>>
>>> On 12/15/05 14:45, Georg Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under
>>>> SUSE 9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and
>>>> other news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it
>>>> seems that this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used
>>>> without WPA).
>>>>
>>>> Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for
>>>> LINUX? Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
>>>> Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be
>>>> interested in that.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Did you check < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >
>>
>>
>>
>> If possible, wouldn't use ndiswrapper and friends, this is just
>> something if you can't chose, like a laptop built-in nic or alike
>> or have already some nic like the OP and don't want to get
>> another one.
>>
>> Something with this chipset, which comes with GPL drivers would
>> be my choice:
>>
>> Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference
>> Card (rev 01)
>>
>> This chipset is used in various in various nics, like MSI.
>>
>> rt2x00 Open Source Project:
>> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> Ralink RT2500 Linux Howto:
>> http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/
>>
>> Ralink (Chipset vendor) driver:
>> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>> Good luck
>>

In comp.os.linux.networking Georg Schmidt <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.networking Giovanni <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>>
>>>On 12/15/05 14:45, Georg Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>>I tried without any success to use an ASUS WL-107G WLAN card under SUSE
>>>>9.3 with WPA-PSK. I posted a couple of questions to this and other
>>>>news-groups, however, judging by the number of replies, it seems that
>>>>this card is not very common (or maybe mainly used without WPA).
>>>>
>>>>Therefore my question: Which WLAN card would you recommend for LINUX?
>>>>Please note that I need WPA-PSK.
>>>>Otherwise, if someone got a WL-107G working I would also be interested
>>>>in that.
>>
>>
>>>Did you check < http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ >
>>
>> Something with this chipset, which comes with GPL drivers would
>> be my choice:
>>
>> Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference
>> Card (rev 01)
>>
>> This chipset is used in various in various nics, like MSI.
>>
>> rt2x00 Open Source Project:
>> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> Ralink RT2500 Linux Howto:
>> http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/
>>
>> Ralink (Chipset vendor) driver:
>> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
[..]

> After compiling and installing the drivers as you suggested, I get as
> far being able to connect to an open network. But as soon as WPA is
> enabled, it doesn't work.


Since you were top posting your reply (TOFU) we don't know whom
you are replying or what you compiled.

Why NOT "top post"? Well, here are some answers:

http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
http://www.illuminated.co.uk/blog/archives/000409.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

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Georg Schmidt wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
>
> After compiling and installing the drivers as you suggested, I get as
> far being able to connect to an open network. But as soon as WPA is
> enabled, it doesn't work.
>
>
> Georg
>
>

From my experience with RaLink card, there are two things to watch out
for with WPA-PSK. First, make very sure the key is the same on both
ends of the link -- I had a carriage-return character from a DOS file
on the end of one key but not on the other (very hard to see). The
other problem is power-saving mode -- make sure it is turned off. The
card looses sync with the access point if it powers the link down.
Hope this helps.
-- Hugh