Compatable Wireless Dongles

[Samurai_Shippo]

Other than the one you buy from the company, what other wireless usb sticks work?

 

[ColdRush]

All of them can work you just have to work with the Caanoos linux distro.

I know there are some people who have been playing with some nano receivers on this forum, haven't looked at their progress in while though.

 

[Samurai_Shippo]

and what distro is that?

 

[glezmen]

look for Ralink chipsets, they should work (I have a noname stick with Ralink, works perfectly out of the box)

 

[tryone]

Hi,

I have little one from HAMA and it works fine. Look for 'HAMA Wlan-usb mini 150 Mbs'. It's about 2cm long and supports ad-hoc and infrastructure mode.

Somewhere in the German board I read that all Ralink RT**** chips should work (should be the same like in the official donge), adn at the German ubuntu board they have a list with linux-compatible hardware like wlan-sticks.

EDIT:
All sticks with the Ralink 2870 and 3070 should work and the Ubuntuusers link.

 

[ruffnutts]

Well I have a Ralink 2870v gutted it dont work its a tiny nano adpter aswell by buffalo

 

[dnlgreenwood]

look for Ralink chipsets, they should work (I have a noname stick with Ralink, works perfectly out of the box)

I have a Belkin Wireless G F5D7050 v3, which does NOT work with the Caanoo out of the box. It has a Ralink RT2571WF chip. It works out of the box on my Linux laptop. Not ALL Ralink cards work out-of-the-box.

It might, however, work with this driver:
http://www.mediafire.com/?j0abaxp9bb9gfqd

You have to unzip them the file "rt2570.ko" in a folder on your SD card, then load it. Example:

/sbin/insmod /mnt/sd/stuff/rt2570.ko

The driver might not work. In fact, I have no idea whether or not it really works. When I try to initialize the interface, I get an error:

# /sbin/ifconfig rausb0 up
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
# /lib/modules/2.6.24/kernel/net/wireless/tools/iwconfig rausb0 mode auto essid nelson key 7782337221abc channel auto nickname "caanoo"
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06)  : 
SET failed on device rausb0 ; Network is down.

 

[ruffnutts]

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