Re: [OT] Encore ENLWI-N 802.11n PCI Wireless Adapter

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#37

-jf


In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
help."
   -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]> wrote:

> [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=encore_enlwin&num=1]
>
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> Encore ENLWI-N 802.11n PCI Wireless Adapter
> Published on January 08, 2010
> Written by Michael Larabel
>
> While wireless chipsets are not as complicated as graphics processors,
> under Linux they can cause just as many headaches when it comes to
> getting them working reliably. More hardware vendors have opened up to
> supporting their wireless chipsets under Linux, but still it can be a
> pain having to hunt down the firmware for a wireless adapter, needing
> to build an out-of-tree driver, having issues with the driver such as
> with WEP/WPA authentication, or if all else fails trying to get the
> Windows driver working under Linux through ndiswrapper. However, for
> those looking for a PCI-based 802.11g/n wireless adapter that will
> work "out of the box" with modern distributions like Ubuntu 9.10, one
> that we have found to do the job is the Encore ENLWI-N.
>
> [...]
>
> We had installed the Encore ENLWI-N 802.11n PCI wireless adapter into
> a desktop system that was running Ubuntu 9.10 (x86_64) with the Linux
> 2.6.31 kernel. Immediately upon entering the GNOME desktop, we were
> able to connect to both secured and unsecured wireless networks --
> both 802.11g and 802.11n too -- through NetworkManager and this
> RT2860T-powered wireless card. There were no firmware headaches,
> driver problems, or connection issues. We did not even need to use
> Ubuntu's Restricted Driver Manager to obtain any packages. The Encore
> ENLWI-N had "just worked" with Ubuntu 9.10 using the rt2860 Linux
> driver. For over a month now, we have been running this 802.11n
> wireless adapter in a system constantly for over a month and have yet
> to run into any problems with this wireless network adapter. The
> rt2860 Linux driver is also not some reverse-engineered wireless
> driver, but in fact, Ralink had created this Linux driver.
>
> [...]
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> Soh Kam Yung
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