HOWTO collection
Some HOWTOs or links to them
Collection of some more or less recent HOWTOs I'm working on ...
My experiences with UMTS/GPRS boxes under Linux
My first steps with UMTS under Linux led to the following HOWTO, mostly based on the work of others. I just tried to automate the device handling with some special udev scripts ...
WUSB54GC and kernel 2.6.15
Earlier this year I told one of my colleagues that I was using a WUSB54G USB WLAN device without trouble (there are at least 3 versions of this device available, an old one using prism2 chipset, a next one using an atheros chip and finally I had a ralink based device).
So he went to the shop an got a WUSB54GC device, note the extra "C" in the name -- here my trouble started :-)
This is a completely different (USB stick shaped) device, but also with some ralink chipset. Unfortunately it needs another driver than my old WUSB54G.
The drivers for ralink based devices come in two flavours:
- GPLed source code directly from the manufacturer (!) at http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
- Community driven project at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/
Unfortunately the rt2x00 drivers (at least in Ubuntu Dapper) don't support the GC device, but the manufacturer delivered sources do -- the other side is: the source code provided by ralink seems to contain some bugs and does not get updated as often as needed.
