Re: [Hampshire] USB WiFi for WPA Network

2009/7/24 Adam Sweet <adam@???>:
> 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.
>
> I bought Edimax 54g USB dongles from efficientpc.co.uk for £12 for the
> dongle and £17 for the dongle with antenna but they don't seem to sell
> them any more, so I found them on Linux Emporium, albeit for £20 each:
>

Edimax is Linux friendly. They have linux drivers on their web site,
but I think they all come included in Linux, at least Ubuntu, now. So
downloading drivers from their web site it probably not needed now.