wireless card that works with linux

[iamroot 0]

I've just received a Linksys Wireless-G router and i need to get a wireless card or adapter for my com. Aside from the Orinoco Classic Gold PC Card which i can't get, which cards work well with GNU/Linux? What abt the Wireless-G PC-card?

[martouf 0]

I use a Buffalo G54 (WLI-CB-G54A) via ndiswrapper 0.12 and the bcmwl5a.inf,

3Com Wireless 11g (3CRWE154G72) via prism54g driver, and

3Com Wireless 11/a/b/g (3CRWE154A72) via madwifi_ag atheros driver.

Add the wpa_supplicant 0.2.6 and you're good to go.

 

hope this helps.

 

[iamroot 0]

Are all these drivers already built-in or must i obtain them elsewhere?

[martouf 0]

ndiswrapper you get from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net since it had changed

quite a bit since the versions first included with many distros.

that is, your best bet for ndiswrapper is to build the latest version from source,

then use the WinXP driver files for your wlan card.

 

OTOH, you don't necessarily need ndiswrapper unless you must have working WPA support.

 

the prism54g does not now (but will soon) have WPA support, and the latest madwifi driver

says it has WPA support.

 

your distro probably includes a prism54 driver and a madwifi driver which supports

WEP just fine. (Knoppix 3.6 has prism54 1.2 and madwifi 20040308)

 

the prism54 project page is at prism54.org

the madwifi project page is at madwifi.sourceforge.net (see also madwifi.net)

 

[iamroot 0]

What about the Linksys Wireless-G USB adapter? The router comes with oneof those. Does anyone here know if it will work with FC2 or FC3?

[martouf 0]

you may be in luck.

 

the No. 1 resource for figuring out if a wireless card can be made to work is

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

 

it indicates the Linksys WUSB54G uses the PrismGT chipset.

you can confirm this by finding a file matching PRISM* among the Windows driver files.

 

another source I found by googling said all newer Linksys USB cards use the Broadcom

chipset. If so, then there is no linux driver but you can still use the card via ndiswrapper.

you can confirm this by finding a file matching BCM* or BRCM* among the Windows

driver files.

 

" find /lib/modules -name \*prism\* " will help you to confirm your distro supplies

the prism54 driver you may need.