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Hi, is there a recommended Atheros card that works perfectly for the Asus WL-500g Premium V1? It seems this may be the Wistron CM9, if so is there a good place to buy it for less than $40 new before S&H (I am in US)? It seems these were new on Ebay for not too much more than $10 in the past 30 days (completed listings)...
Thanks
Misha
Why you need have a replacement?
The original wifi pcm card installed on Asus WL-500g Premium V1 should works perfectly after you apply some sbrown's patches.
Sbrown's patches let wl500gp v1's wifi card works with b43 under kernel 2.6
ennnn, I can not give you more experience because I didn't have a wl500gp v1 now.
you may have do a search here for more....
sorry for my poor English.
I don't recall patches specific to the v1, just the bcm5354 in the v2 and the wl520gu.
This http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15443 thread has lots of discussion about v1 problems, but they are all fixed in the current svn. I wouldn't give up on the b43 driver and the card that comes w/ the v1 so soon.
I have an engenius emp-8602+ that works in the v1. However, at least for me, the ath5k driver is still a work in progress. The ath5k-devel archive will give you an idea of its status. The other Atheros alternative is the madwifi driver, but it uses its own 802.11 stack and I don't think its being worked on any more. I've gone back to the original Asus card and the b43 driver for my v1.
I don't recall patches specific to the v1, just the bcm5354 in the v2 and the wl520gu.
This http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15443 thread has lots of discussion about v1 problems, but they are all fixed in the current svn. I wouldn't give up on the b43 driver and the card that comes w/ the v1 so soon.
I have an engenius emp-8602+ that works in the v1. However, at least for me, the ath5k driver is still a work in progress. The ath5k-devel archive will give you an idea of its status. The other Atheros alternative is the madwifi driver, but it uses its own 802.11 stack and I don't think its being worked on any more. I've gone back to the original Asus card and the b43 driver for my v1.
Oh, ok, thank you so much for the info. I'm mainly looking towards what I am going to do when 8.08 comes out. My understanding is still (and from looking over the thread you referenced I didn't see anything to clearly contradict this) that you still can't run an AP (for other computers to connect to) from the Asus on 2.6 kernel with the broadcom card. Am I not understanding this correctly?
Thank you
Misha
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