The Netgear MA311 works right out of the box with freeBSD 5.1 & 4.8

The card provides excellent through put, and has decent range indoors (about 80 feet through 2 inside and 2 outside walls.

All in all, an excellent choice that is well supported.

With the wlan-ng drivers, this card works wonderfully well with linux.

This card works very easily with the orinoco_pci module (ships with Slackware 9.1) as well as the hostap_pci module.

I seem to get much better speed performace out of the orinoco module.

Tested on a patched/recompiled 2.4.20 kernel (vanilla 2.4.20 source + bcm4400 driver added). I got the latest sources 0.13e of orinoco_pci and had to get version26 of iw. The trick to copy wireless.h in either /usr/include/linux and kernel sources was a key thing to make the iwconfig work perfectly.

On RH 2.4.18-13 (from out-of-the-box RH7.3), with pre-version 16 iwconfig tools worked immediately (Ad-Hoc mode). But long transfers (over 10Mb) always ended up in Error -110 Tx like messages.

Aim was: Cable Modem -> Linux Box used as router/fw/nat (as well as workstation and play station), that contains another Eth card and MA311. WindowsXP laptop with MA521 connected to linux box thru wifi (of course).

Using Ad-Hoc mode + encryption. Configured DHPC on wifi.

When I wanted to buy a wireless PCI card I found a warning about not using the wireless tools for the MA311. The card seems to work but after some time you got some problems.

Use wlan-ng instead.

hi
i've bought this card but i've a problem
i use the orinoco_pci driver and it goes perfectly (i can ping my laptop very well) but when i do the 'startx' command (or when i do any other command to start x server) the card doesn't works (i can't ping anything)
can u help me plis?

P.S. i use this card in ad-hoc mode, i haven't tested it in infrastructure mode

Amazingly compatible. Just typed "iwconfig" than "dhcpcd" and I was online! Took me longer to configure my mouse than this guy. Its been very reliable, haven't had any dropoff problems or anything. Though this is discontinued, you can still find these out there at very low prices. Highly reccommended if you don't need 802.11g speeds.

Zero config with Fedora. Highly recommended card. Shows up as Intersil Prism 2.5.

No configuration needed with FC4. If you have troubles, always try out iwconfig/dhcpcd. But it worked out of the box for me.

Got it for extra cheap off of ebay :)

Great product combo!