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Old 08-15-2003, 12:32 AM   #1
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Wireless PCI cards

Can anyone recommend a good wireless PCI card that's compatible with Linux?

If not, what about a standard NIC?

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Old 08-15-2003, 02:03 AM   #2
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If your working with an Accesspoint; Edimax EW-7126. Works fine with an AP, but can't get adhoc working
 
Old 08-16-2003, 04:03 PM   #3
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Anyone have any experience with Linksys cards? I've found a few good deals and I think that's the way I'd like to go.
 
Old 08-16-2003, 06:49 PM   #4
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The Linksys WMP11 used to be a prism based card, fully supported, now its a Broadcom based card... unsupported.

Linksys didn't change the box so you're playing russian roulette buying one. The Netgears all seem to be the same prism2 card still, the D-Links are half prism2, and version 2 is an ADMtek card, which is supported too. Check the link in my sig to the www.linux-wlan.net site with just about everything.

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Old 10-12-2004, 06:17 PM   #5
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If your working with an Accesspoint; Edimax EW-7126. Works fine with an AP, but can't get adhoc working
Funny that. I can't get managed mode to work - ad-hoc only. What distro/kernel are you running?
 
Old 10-14-2004, 03:17 PM   #6
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Which version of the card do you have? or really... what driver are you using?

Cheers,

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Old 10-14-2004, 03:27 PM   #7
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I use a DLink DWL-G520 with the MadWifi drivers (CVS version):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
And it works fine.
 
Old 10-15-2004, 01:35 AM   #8
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Which version of the card do you have? or really... what driver are you using?
Was this aimed at me? If so, I'm using the Edimax EW-7126 card with ndiswrapper-0.11 and the Win XP driver of the Edimax site. Card is picked up fine and it... almost... works. But not quite. Picks up access point in Ad-hoc but just won't be configured to Managed mode.

Three weeks later I swapped this card with a smc2662w I had in another win box and it works fine. (With an amtel firmware upgrade courtesy of SuSE). This is a ver1 device, ver2 and ver3 use, I believe, different chips.
 
Old 10-15-2004, 11:18 AM   #9
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I have a dlink dwl 520+ with the acx100 chipset (802.11b) on Fedora Core 2. I HIGHLY recommend Craig's guide to setting this up. It was perfect and well documented.

http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php/
 
Old 10-17-2004, 04:51 AM   #10
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is the Asus wireless lan pci adapter wl-138g compatibale with SuSE
 
Old 10-20-2004, 01:22 PM   #11
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is the Asus wireless lan pci adapter wl-138g compatibale with SuSE
Maybe, Asus's wierd PCI-esque slot cards are almost all RaLink, and then yes it is compatible, but not out of the box. If its another device type, then I'm not sure... you'll have to post the output of /sbin/lspci for us to find out.

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Old 05-12-2008, 04:55 PM   #12
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Exclamation I need help to

I need Help with my airlink and zonet wireless pci card.
I think they are not compatible with Linux.
Help me I'm using windows now.
!!!!!help!!!!!
 
  


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