after a wi fi dongle

What I have already purchased, in the hope that it will be suitable, is an Edimax EW-7811UN Wireless 802.11b/g/n 150Mbps Nano USB Adaptor which is claimed to be the "world's smallest!" although similar sized models are available from other manufacturers.

It is quoted as being Linux compatible, and cost me just under £10 from Amazon (UK).

Unfortunately I shant be able to check out full compatability until I actually receive my Raspberry Pi computer, but it certainly is small!

I too have purchased one of these dongles after finding problems with my other dongles, both claim to be supported by the PI Squeeze.

one, a Belkin F5D7050  which claims to be a ZD1211B but 'Squeeze' wont talk to it as there are error reports on powering up.

Sadly I don't have the experience yet to correct the error report with a cure.

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the other, a D-Link DWL-G122 that claims to be an Ralink RT73,

The D-Link refuses to connect even though it is loading drivers and 'sort of' talking to the OS.

I get a list of local nodes with 'IWlist wlan0 scan' but no sweeties when trying to connect to an open network node.

The Edimax EW-7811UN has the Linux driver software on their site, but itneeds compiling to the host OS and Hardware.

Damned if I know how to do that...

so,

BELKIN F5D7050 ( ZD1211B in Debian ) no joy

D-Link DWL-G122 ( Ralink RT73 in Debian ) no joy

Anyone care to compile the Edimax drivers for us 'next to newbies'.

I too have purchased one of these dongles after finding problems with my other dongles, both claim to be supported by the PI Squeeze.

one, a Belkin F5D7050  which claims to be a ZD1211B but 'Squeeze' wont talk to it as there are error reports on powering up.

Sadly I don't have the experience yet to correct the error report with a cure.

.

the other, a D-Link DWL-G122 that claims to be an Ralink RT73,

The D-Link refuses to connect even though it is loading drivers and 'sort of' talking to the OS.

I get a list of local nodes with 'IWlist wlan0 scan' but no sweeties when trying to connect to an open network node.

The Edimax EW-7811UN has the Linux driver software on their site, but itneeds compiling to the host OS and Hardware.

Damned if I know how to do that...

so,

BELKIN F5D7050 ( ZD1211B in Debian ) no joy

D-Link DWL-G122 ( Ralink RT73 in Debian ) no joy

Anyone care to compile the Edimax drivers for us 'next to newbies'.

Mike W, somone has already compiled the Edimax drivers for you. In fact you only need one file, and that's 8192cu.ko.

Check out http://www.ctrl-alt-del.cc/2012/05/raspberry-pi-meets-edimax-ew-7811un-wireless-ada.html

and http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4992  for more info

Regarding your DLink dongle. If you are at the point of getting a list of stations when you type

     iwlist wlan0 scan

then to all intents and purposes your dongle is working. You just need to figure out how to connect it to your wireless lan. This process will depend on your particular setup (e.g. whether you are runnin WEP, WPA2 or unencrypted, etc), but all the information on how to do this is documented in many places such as Debian forums.

Felix.