[ILUG] Re: Best WIFI card for linux - Success...! (Conor Wynne)

[Justin Kelly]

> The wifi card is a :
> D-LINK AirPlus G USB device (DWL-G122).
> -- than God it worked as I bought two of them, one for my own kids   
> bedroom.
> Although the kernel driver is in the source, and the firmware was  
> already included on FC8, you do have to install the madwifi modules to  
> be able to connect to a secured network, it works fine out of the box  
> on an open network -- obviously worse than useless.

Funny you should mention that. I was installing the latest Gutsy Gibbon
from this month's Linux Magazine while reading this and it's the FIRST
EVER distro to recognize my DWL-G122.

Actually, my previous Ubuntu did recognize it but didn't handle it
properly. Every time it would lose a connection, it wouldn't try to
reconnect again. Now it works correctly. I think this issue has
something to do with it being over a usb connection.

JK