rt2500
My 6-year old laptop is still puttering along. Recently updated the kernel, and had to rebuild the wireless driver. The card is an Asus wl-107. The latest beta of the rt2500 driver doesn’t work with recent kernels; you need to grab a nightly snapshot.
To get the card to work (as opposed to simply flashing its lights while the “network is unreachable”), something like the following script should be run. It used to work without the sleep command, but it’s more touchy now than it used to be.
# starts the rt2500 ra0 interface ifconfig ra0 up ifconfig ra0 192.168.2.20 route add default gw 192.168.2.1 sleep 15s iwconfig ra0 mode managed essid\ channel 1 key restricted