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Subject: Re: usb wifi
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Jonathan McKeown wrote:
>
> But be wary. I've recently been in correspondence with someone (on a Linux 
> Users' Group list) who bought an Asus WL-167G on the strength of the ural(4) 
> manpage, and found it didn't work - apparently later versions use a different 
> Ralink chipset which as far as we could tell is only supported in the rum(4) 
> driver in 7.0.
>
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
>   
Based on all the feedback the key seems to be pay attention to which 
chipset is in use. 

Brian