Just over a week ago, I bought two cheap Canyon CN-WF513 802.11g wireless cards for £8 each. I thought it was a good deal, even if they didn’t work under Linux. They duly arrived and didn’t work, until Scott at ScotLUG kindly lent me his laptop for half an hour and let me dig around in the drivers that were provided…
Lo and behold, it’s just a rebadged Ralink RT2500 card, an up and coming cheap wireless chipset vendor. Not only do they do cheap hardware, but they also provide Open Source drivers for it 🙂 A pretty decent howto is provided right here, which I’m in the process of going through at the moment.
Oh, and btw, the price has now gone up to £16.79 on their site – still a good deal for a 802.11g card though
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