[dvlug] Meeting Tonight, Fri, June 4th in Walnut Creek

[Grant Bowman]

Join us at Caffe La Scala this evening to discuss the latest news or
participate here on the mail list.  http://dvlug.org

My effort to find a reliable and cheap 802.11n wifi usb adapter to
recommend for use in several schools is not going well.The two samples
I bought from newegg.com use ralink chipsets but there are driver
issues I haven't fully worked through yet.  From my reading so far
there are ways to load the proprietary firmware but it may require
recompiling with the staging drivers.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166041
Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 $24.63 after shipping and tax identifies as
148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315088 Edimax
EW-7711UMn $20.30 after shippnig and tax identifies as 7392:7711 with
no text identifier.  Neither one works out of the box as I was hoping.

If anyone has positive experiences with other adapters please let me
know.  A friend recommended I try a TEW-644UB from Trendnet and I see
one report of installing linux-backports-modules-wireless-* that makes
it work.

Cheers,

Grant