Hey all,

I have a my Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 for a while now and it works great. It has worked on every distro I've tried it on (except for SuSE 9.2 Professional). I wanted to start a thread to state which currently-on-the-shelves cards will work with Linux, without using Linuxant or NDISwrapper. I have been shopping for a new card, and I have purchased a D-Link DWL-650, Motorola (forgot model -From TARGET-), U.S. Robotics USR5410(I think), and have returned all 3 because they just don't work. I don't care about over-paying at BestBuy or something just so long as I can get something that will work. If you know of a current card with support under linux, please post in this thread. Thanks!!

3Com Wireless Card

Yes, Norwegian page -- but you get the name of the card :-)
That worked out-of-the-box actually.

Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

That works almost out-of-the-box -- just do module-assistant auto-install madwifi first :-)

cool, a little expensive, but it's 3Com, and if it works.. it's worth it.. I found it on PC Connection for like $70, CDW has it for $80

I might have to get it though..

http://prism54.org

Great site, all cards use the prism54 driver, and it rates the cards by how well the work.

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/

Good site to look at if you're running the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 or similar hardware.

-Jalsk

The DWL-650G was also an atheros card, there are virtually no G cards on the market that are out of the box, but all of the 3rd party to kernel drivers around now are relatively to completely mature. Ndiswrapper, ralink, madwifi for atheros, etc... prismGT/Indigio gear that works out of the box is relatively hard to find. On the prism54 site the only one I see commonly retail is the netgear card.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks finegan..

I have seen the netgear cards around, at both CompUSA and Best Buy.. Here's the reason I'm asking for current cards is basically because I got a few gift certificates to best buy left over from christmas.. and I don't have anything I want to buy from there.. other than a new card, so I can give my wife my linksys because it *just works*.. I'm figuring.. if I can't get one that'll work out of the box.. then I'll pick on that I really like than.. The one I've been looking at is the Linksys WPC54G, WPC54GS, and the WPC55AG. The latter of which looks awefully intriguing as well as having a nice design.. However, I wonder how the support is for the more advanced cards, such as the A+B+G cards?? If they would work fine under NDISwrapper or linuxant or whatever.. then I'll just go with that... let me know if you have any knowledge of them.. thanks!

According to the list the Linksys cards you mentioned either aren't on it, (odd), or broadcoms, (crap). Here's a link to the list:

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

The netgear you will get the most functionality out of, if you've got the chance, don't submit to dealing with ndiswrapper until you have to. Afterall, its a dodgy wrapper for a windows driver.

Cheers,

Finegan

cool.. I didn't even know about that site.. thanks finegan

Okay... so I just stopped by Best Buy and picked up the WPC55AG wireless card... It does A+B+G bands... it's the most expensive one they had at $100.. but I only had to pay $20 after using some gift cards.. Of course it's not recognized out of the box..

I'm unsure as to what chipset it uses.. how would I find that out?? what would be the best way to get it functioning.. someone mentioned madwifi, but I don't know what card it supports...

Thanks.

I just bought a Proxim Orinoco Classic Gold from amazon for about $25US. I'm running Slackware 10.1 stable on a toshiba satellite 1735. Here's exactly how I got this card to work. 1. I plugged it in and booted the computer. 2. after logging in I typed "# iwconfig eth0 key restricted **********" and then "# dhcpcd". I'm now surfing.

For the WPC55AG

The command /sbin/lspci or if its mandrake lspcidrake

And post back what you get here, or google for it, and that'll tell you the chipset we're dealing with. Then its a roll of the dice to see if its supported natively, and if not... well, there's ndiswrapper.

Cheers,

Finegan