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mundane

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Registered: 2011-03-23

Posts: 49

Anybody have desktop wireless-N reliably working out of the box?

Support for laptop wireless is amazing (mainly because of Intel), but desktop wireless is somewhat lacking.

My TP-Link TL-WN781ND pci-express card does work out of the box with ath9k module, but it is unreliable and intermittently disconnects. The Intel wireless 3945 (only 801.11G support) on my laptop on the other hand has much better signal and is much more reliable.

So, there must be many of you with desktop cards that work reliably out the box (without ndiswrapper or having to download anything) that also work reliably on 802.11N. It would be fantastic if you could share what cards or usb adapters you are using!

Last edited by mundane (2011-05-21 17:04:24)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Anybody have desktop wireless-N reliably working out of the box?

I am using an el cheap-o Netgear 300-megabit USB adapter with carl9170, an experimental driver in the kernel tree which provides better support for 802.11n USB devices than the old ar9180usb driver (including support for 802.11n link speeds).

Last edited by Wintervenom (2011-05-21 17:56:14)

rowdog

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From: East Texas

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 118

Re: Anybody have desktop wireless-N reliably working out of the box?

I have a cheapy Roswill RNX-N1 usb dongle and a decent Alfa AWUSO51NH dual band usb adapter which both work great with rt2800usb but I did have to blacklist rt2870sta in rc.cconf

MODULES=(kvm-amd !rt2870sta)

Last edited by rowdog (2011-05-22 05:11:41)

vit

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Registered: 2008-12-28

Posts: 79

Re: Anybody have desktop wireless-N reliably working out of the box?

Linksys WMP-600N PCI N card. Working with rt2x00pci on kernels newer, than 38 with no problem.