Details

ManufacturerMicro-Star International (by RaLink)
ModelRT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
Buspci
TypeNetwork controller
Id1814
Info20201
Info31462
Info46834

Ratings

Overall rating: 3.3 x 13

By Linux distribution:

  • Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 5.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 AuthenticAMD: 5.0 x 1
  • Fedora 7 i386: 5.0 x 1
  • openSUSE 10.2 i586: -3.0 x 1
  • Debian 4.0 i386: 3.0 x 1
  • openSUSE 10.3 X86-64: -5.0 x 1
  • Ubuntu 7.10 x86_64: 5.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 5.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 AuthenticAMD: 5.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.0 x86_64: 5.0 x 1
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.1 x86_64: 5.0 x 1

Comments

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 10.2 i586 (kernel: 2.6.21-119-default) by dudulle (-3):

Works with beta drivers or ndiswrapper.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.20-16-generic) by trougnouf (3):

Working but it is detected as ra0 instead of ath0 or eth1 so I have to modify /etc/network/interfaces and can’t use the automatic network applet

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian 4.0 i386 (kernel: 2.6.18-4-486) by iwontregister (3):

Get the drivers from http://rt2×00.serialmonkey.com/ and it works fine.

Working PCI wireless cards on openSUSE 10.3 X86-64 (kernel: 2.6.22.5-18-default) by dudulle (-5):

Impossible to get it work, even with ndiswrapper.

Working PCI wireless cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 AuthenticAMD (kernel: 2.6.23-hardened-r4) by vm666 (5):

Gentoo package net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_pre2007071515

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