What wireless cards work with Linux?

Post by **Roofus** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:03 pm

I need a new wireless card for my kaptop and I'd like one that works easily with Linux. I'd prefer to stay away from a Prism chipset. Any recommendations?

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:43 am

i use an Asus WL100-g pcmcia card, it has a broadcom 4306 chipset, which was supposed to work out of the box with ubuntu, but didnt, but there are a lot of tuts on how to fix this with ndiswrapper

AFAIK all you really need to do is get ndiswrapper and the windows driver for a card with the same chipset as yours and set it all up, i believe im officially running linksys drivers for my card

what distro are you running Roofus? i assume its KDE based?

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:33 am

Orinoco works like trash because of all the goofy firmwares. Apparently the Broadcom chipsets work quite well now and are very common in laptops, especially Dell. The Intel chipsets work fine as well when you download the firmware.

BTW, :google:

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:40 am

Eh, I just installed Ubuntu on my computer that didn't have a OS before. I need complete help as I don't know what the hell I am doing! What should I have to do to go about setting up my Linksys Wireless card? Ugh, I am starting to think this Linux OS is a bit over my head.

Post by **Roofus** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:31 pm

Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:i use an Asus WL100-g pcmcia card, it has a broadcom 4306 chipset, which was supposed to work out of the box with ubuntu, but didnt, but there are a lot of tuts on how to fix this with ndiswrapper

AFAIK all you really need to do is get ndiswrapper and the windows driver for a card with the same chipset as yours and set it all up, i believe im officially running linksys drivers for my card

what distro are you running Roofus? i assume its KDE based?

I'm using Slackware. Since I'm looking to buy a new card, I'd rather buy one that's supported and doesn't need ndiswrapper.

Xylene wrote:Orinoco works like trash because of all the goofy firmwares. Apparently the Broadcom chipsets work quite well now and are very common in laptops, especially Dell. The Intel chipsets work fine as well when you download the firmware.

BTW,

Thanks for that. I was actually looking at an Orinoco. I"ve heard things about Atheros cards. What do you think?

Oh. and I'll be sure to look at that "Google" book you suggested.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 1:54 pm

ok i understand

the odd thing is though, ubuntu supposedly comes with broadcom 43xx drivers, so my 4306 should have worked out of the box, and it did, sorta, i could activate the card an all, but not connect to a network

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:26 am

Atheros chipset works great and comes with native linux drivers.
i got an NEC Warpstar A/B/G for 8 bucks on ebay about 6 months ago and works out of the box with most modern distros.