Re: Trednet TEW-229UB no longer Atmel chipset, now Gericom

Hi Michel,

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> It's listed on your devices page as an Atmel
> chipset  and that it works with your driver, but
> my recent experience with one from tigerdirect
> shows it to have an SIS 162 Gericom chipset,
> different vendor, device ids and all.

the table entries are only valid if both the product name _and_ the USB
ids match. Unfortunately some manufacturer re-use the names for completely
different hardware as in your case.

BTW, the at76c503/5 are USB 1.1 only devices, while you probably refer to
the USB 2.0 "version" of the TEW-229UB (USB id 457/162 acc. to the Win98
driver).

> There is a vendor driver available, but it is
> partly binary, abandoned, and does not compile
> on my kernel 2.6.8 mandrake 10.1.  Gericom's web
> page says "Gericom recommends Windows XP" right
> up front, so no wonder.
>
> Any suggestions on a good cheap adapter I can
> replace it with?

Depends on your location. I bought a Fiberline WL240U some months ago for
~ 20 EUR, no idea if it is still sold as they already announce
the 802.11g USB stick WL400U on their website. The WL260U seems to
contain the SiS-162U as well.

/Jörg