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csolomon

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recommended USB wireless adapters?
« on: March 09, 2010, 05:42:38 PM »
I installed pclinuxos 2009 on an older computer and it's working great.  I'm a bit of a newbie to Linux, so it was a relief to get it working.  However, I need to move this computer to another location and that means wireless.  I have an old Linksys WUSB12 adapter, but since that's pretty slow, I'm considering upgrading and buying a G or N adapter, but wanted to check to see if there were recommendations on which have the best driver support. 

Like I said, I have 2009 for right now, but it seems like we will be steered toward 2010 soonish.  Granted, I really don't understand what that means in terms of network compatibility, but I just wanted to throw that out there in case it changes the recommendations. 

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Re: recommended USB wireless adapters?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 05:07:18 AM »
Belkin G+ works with the new 2010 beta and gives excellent coverage (100% at home). At the moment I am using Belkin g adapters with 2009.4 KDE3.5 & LXDE and I am getting about 70% signal strength. I have had no problem setting up and running Belkin. I've not tried N series so can't comment on it.
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Re: recommended USB wireless adapters?
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 10:21:19 AM »
Belkin G+ works with the new 2010 beta and gives excellent coverage (100% at home). At the moment I am using Belkin g adapters with 2009.4 KDE3.5 & LXDE and I am getting about 70% signal strength. I have had no problem setting up and running Belkin. I've not tried N series so can't comment on it.

THanks for the reply.  Is that the F5D7050 or 7051 you're using?  (from some searching, I think they use different drivers and/or firmware)

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Re: recommended USB wireless adapters?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 03:23:28 AM »
The Belkin G+ adapter I have uses F5D7050 with rt73 firmware. rt73 is included with 2009 & 2010
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