[ILUG] Vivanco WLAN USB adaptor from ALDI

[Timothy Murphy]

On Fri 03 Aug 2007, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> > This week, ALDI are selling a WLAN USB adaptor manufactured by
> > Vivanco.Has anybody tried to use this adaptor with Ubuntu/Debian? As
> > usual, I bought one before checking if it was supported, and there are no
> > obvious drivers available.Thanks in advance,Bred
>
> A colleague said he bought one and had similar experience.  He says he got
> it to work with ndiswrapper and it does WPA2 that way, if that's any help.
>
> It would be interesting to know what the card is.  What's the output of
> lspci/lsusb?

I bought two of these in England last weekend -
they were £10.40 each.

I think they have a Marvell ACX111 chip.
There is an ACX100 Project discussing ACX100&111 WiFi cards
at <http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/>,
with a Linux driver for these devices.
The Vivanco card is listed
at <http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html>
where it is said that the driver works with this card.

I only tried briefly, but didn't get the driver working under Fedora-7.

The card works find under Windows XP,
with the driver on the accompanying CD.




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