Wireless G USB dongle, works out of box for Ubuntu 9.10

PaulStat · 14 Dec 2009 at 10:25

After failing miserably to get my VIA VT6656 to work in Ubuntu 9.10, I've decided to take the plunge and get usb dongle to connect to my netgear wireless g router.

So can anyone recommend me one that will work out of the box or is very easy to configure?

Indy500 · 14 Dec 2009 at 17:45

Stick to Atheros chipsets. Ralink also works well.

SMN · 17 Dec 2009 at 12:37

Atheros would be my recommendation - anything with that chipset you can generally use madwifi drivers. Have you tried using ndiswrapper with the wifi cards driver to see if that can make it worked? Helped with a few Linksys wireless n dongles i was using in F12.

Bhamid · 19 Dec 2009 at 12:01

I'm using a Netgear WN111v2, worked out of the box but I needed to use OpenDNS addresses for it to work properly, otherwise max speeds were 60KB/s. Not sure if thats a Netgear problem or an Ubuntu problem, probably the latter seeing as other people had the same issue.

psd99 · 20 Dec 2009 at 13:44

I've got a netgear WG311 USB dongle and it worked right out of the box for ubuntu 9.10 if that helps

Bigsy · 21 Dec 2009 at 21:33

Another vote here for a ralink... get a RT73 chipset based dongle, mine was advertised as such on ebay.

1. There very cheap, mine cost me £7 delivered.
2. Complete out of the box driver support in ubuntu, including monitor mode and packet injection.... not that I'm suggesting your interested in all the wifi cracking business.

Indy500 · 21 Dec 2009 at 22:44

Bigsy said:
Complete out of the box driver support in ubuntu, including monitor mode and packet injection.... not that I'm suggesting your interested in all the wifi cracking business.

That's intended for security testing, although yes in theory you can use it to break into networks illegally