Wireless! Woo!
Hehe. As I’m moving soon, and I’m only going to have wireless internet, I thought I’d sit down and have a look to see whether the D-Link USB adapter I’ve had for about 2 years would actually work with Linux, which, while it had previously picked up details of the networks, never seemed to work.
After reading through a couple of Ubuntu Wiki Pages, I managed to download, compile and install the working module - and guess what - it works!
Now this is great news - I won’t have to go out and search for a new Wireless Dongle/Card, and well - seeing as the end of my ethernet cable is missing the clip, and keeps falling out of the router, I can now use wireless! woohoo! (and it’s even working with WPA!)
Oh, and hello Planet #bitfolk
January 19th, 2008 at 6:47 am
You have discovered a linux secret:
buy something that doest work in linux.
put it in a drawer.
wait 2 years.
PROFIT! (now it works)
January 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I actually only had it cause I had a wireless ADSL router/modem (needed an ADSL modem!) and it came in the pack
January 19th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
BTW, which adapter is it, that takes so much to get working?
January 20th, 2008 at 12:10 am
The D-Link DWL-G122/C1
January 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am
The “canonical” documentation for this device is:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/DWL-G122_%28Rev_C1%29
I don’t know if it’s up to date, please correct it if you can. Gutsy ships with the rt73usb modules so things are supposed to work out of the box. A quick search got me bugs #152456 and #162653, but they are both “Incomplete”.