Comment 16 for bug 35474

I tested with the Edgy Eft knot 2 LiveCD using an IBM ThinkPad A21m (from about 2000) and an AirLink 101 AWLC2036T PCMCIA adapter which uses the RaLink RT61 driver.

Although the adapter is PCMCIA / CardBus, lsmod reports that the driver is rt61pci.

Commands which touched the interface while it was down (e.g. iwlist wlan0 scan) did not hang the terminal as has been confirmed in Dapper. They brought up the interface instead.

I was, however, unable to test for WEP functionality. I was unable to get the adapter to associate to the access point barely a metre away. Both a more modern laptop and this system running off the installed Dapper associate instantly. The error was "NO DHCPOFFERS RECEIVED".

This particular card does not require installing and editing a firmware file, a process described by reharpernc on ubuntforums.org in order to run under Dapper.