Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 11, 2007 9:58 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by ca9mbu
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

For best performance I found you'll have to completely get rid of network manager, plus any thing like dbhcdbd that cache dhcp information.

Then you have to use the rutilT program. http://cbbk.free.fr/bonrom/

It's a very simple program, just scans the network then feeds the essid/channel/ap information to the internet and runs dhclient, but I think the author is able to take into account quirks and such that the normal network manager stuff doesn't.

You have to make sure that you have the device up before starting the program (I put ifconfig ra0 up).

Still though sometimes I have to take the interface down, unload the module, and reload the module for it to work.

And it's just to bad, this driver has been in constant development for about 3 or more years now.

I have owned 3 devices.. rt61 PCI card, rt2500 PCI card, and a Rt2570 USB card. With the Rt61 I was able to even perform some advanced things like packet injection attacks for making wep protected networks spew arp packets. (for research only!! Honest!!)

Also besides the ralink stuff, I've owned a broadcom bcm43xx (Apple Airport Extreme) (which sucked; but thank goodness for the good folks who reverse engineered documentation and the good folks that took that documentation and made it work.), a 'Prism54' PCI card, and a Prism54 PCMCIA card.. both were the original 'FullMac' devices

(totally depressing story about conextent destroying prism54 cards compatibility and then lied about it. Those prism54 drivers were one of the few early Linux 802.11g success stories until Conextant bought up the company that made them).

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