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From: lost distance on 3 May 2006 04:28
Hi,

Does anybody have experience of the Edimax EW-7628IG wireless LAN PCI
card? It's sold by dabs.com as the DabsValue MIMO-XR 54Mbps PCI Card.
Looking at the specs it comes with drivers for "Linux Series", but I
can't find any more information. Are they binary only for specific
distros, or do they provide source? Any help will be appreciated.
From: chris on 3 May 2006 05:43
lost distance wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anybody have experience of the Edimax EW-7628IG wireless LAN PCI
> card? It's sold by dabs.com as the DabsValue MIMO-XR 54Mbps PCI Card.
> Looking at the specs it comes with drivers for "Linux Series", but I
> can't find any more information. Are they binary only for specific
> distros, or do they provide source? Any help will be appreciated.


As far as I know, they're binaries. I've got an Edimax 7101 PCMCIA card to
work fine with my ancient IBM 390X laptop and Mandriva. The driver for my
card was a binary, so I just trusted to luck, and it worked.

Chris
From: lost distance on 3 May 2006 16:50
chris wrote:
> lost distance wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Does anybody have experience of the Edimax EW-7628IG wireless LAN PCI
>>card? It's sold by dabs.com as the DabsValue MIMO-XR 54Mbps PCI Card.
>>Looking at the specs it comes with drivers for "Linux Series", but I
>>can't find any more information. Are they binary only for specific
>>distros, or do they provide source? Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
>
> As far as I know, they're binaries. I've got an Edimax 7101 PCMCIA card to
> work fine with my ancient IBM 390X laptop and Mandriva. The driver for my
> card was a binary, so I just trusted to luck, and it worked.
>
> Chris

Thanks for that. I suppose source code was too much to expect. I guess
I'll skip this card then, since I can't assume that it will still work
after assorted kernel and compiler upgrades.
From: chris on 4 May 2006 02:38
lost distance wrote:

> Thanks for that. I suppose source code was too much to expect. I guess
> I'll skip this card then, since I can't assume that it will still work
> after assorted kernel and compiler upgrades.

I haven't had /any/ problem with the driver, despite many kernel changes and
various tweaks and optimisations to get the ancient laptop running at
reasonable speed. It's a good, cheap card, and outperforms many of the
well-known ones.

Chris
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