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Topic: Recommende WiFi dongle for NSLU2 with Backfire 10.03.1-rc6 ????

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Hi,

Does someone nows a USB WiFI dongle that wil work with the NSLU2 with Backfire 10.03.1-rc6 ????

Unless you want to compile your own modules go with ralink there is support for most of their wireless chipsets, and most of them do ap mode.
I've used rtl8187 rt73 and rt2800usb all worked fine in sta mode.
There are also support for these chipsets in openwrt
zydas / atheros usb
realtek rtl8187
prism54 usb.

So if I understand correctly I dont have to compile my own module if I use the rtl8187, rt73 or rt2800 usb dongles as they are standard in this openwrt build, am I correct?

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