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Support is available online and proved invaluable. Outside the usual little glicks setting up a wireless network the installation and subsequent performance of this item have been exceptional.
The adapter picked up my router right away and once I entered my router key, the PC had a wireless connection. The directions were clear and easy to follow. It performs flawlessly. I bought this adapter to install in my Dell Dimension 4550. It was an extremely easy install (much easier and faster than when I installed my network router).
It works.still dont like wireless though and going to wire the house
I did, and about 60 seconds later, the computer was on the Internet. Installing the hardware was a bit of a pain, but that is my fault and Dell's--first, because I turned off the computer and started to take it apart before I read the directions that said to install the software FIRST, and second, because Dell made it easy to open their case, but hard to get the back cover off the one empty PCI slot (which looked like two empty slots from the outside). But once I had the card in, the case closed, the antenna screwed on, and the power back on, the directions said to press the button on the front of the router and click "next" on the computer. I haven't had this product long enough to know whether it will last, but I was extremely impressed by the ease of setup--definitely 5 stars.I bought this to add a new Dell desktop PC to our existing wireless-G network, with a Linksys router. I wish everything was this easy. Let me state that I hated setting up the network originally, because I didn't know what I was doing, and I have had trouble adding friend's laptops onto it when they came to visit. (That HAS lasted well, for the last 2 years). I was anticipating several hours of playing with network names, channel settings, and security codes to get it right.
I tried it and my system froze.After a reboot, I decided to remove those rt drivers and the already installed version of ndiswrapper, use the 'make' and 'make install' commands for the latest version, installed the driver with ndiswrapper, modprobed it, went through the Wireless GUI, and added ndiswrapper as a module to load on bootup (can't recall the command right now).It might seem like a lot of work but in the end I haven't had to touch any of the command line since. Like others have mentioned, this card seems to stop functioning altogether at one point or another - but no one has mentioned anything about Linux (or maybe I missed it). Ever since NOT using Linksys third party software, this card has lasted two years and doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. It even signs on during the boot process and if we ever change our essid or pass phrase or whatever I can just use the Wireless GUI again. Yes, I had this very card working on a Windows box for about three months, and suddenly the third party software decided to stop working with the unit no matter what I did through tech service and howto's off the internet.Since it was the kid's computer for games like Freddy Fish (stuff that works easily in Wine) I decided to try the card out on PClinuxOS, since it seemed to be the friendliest OS besides Ubuntu I could find.First thing I did was try the card on it's default rt drivers that were installed with PClinuxOS. At first it said it couldn't find any networks, then I tried again and it gave me a "ra0" option or something along that line.
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