Re: [Hampshire] USB WiFi for WPA Network

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Author: Tim
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB WiFi for WPA Network
On Friday 24 July 2009 14:34:34 Richard Danter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an old Compaq laptop with a built-in W200 network card. It
> seems this is not supported by Linux any longer and though it is
> possible to get the old driver to work with newer kernels it supports
> only WEP.
>
> So I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a cheap USB
> dongle that is able to support WPA/WPA2 and works well with Ubuntu
> 9.04? My router is 802.11b/g/n.
>
> Sadly my old PCMCIA cards are all only WEP capable too. :(
>
> Thanks
> Rich
>
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I have a Zyxel G-202 USB wireless adaptor working on a NX9010 running Xbuntu
9.04. Xbuntu just saw it and it worked, runs happily with wpa

I have a brand new one in the bag if you are interested.

Tim