compatible wireless card

redbeard · 2006-03-08 23:58:42

well i just got a laptop and put arch on it, so now im looking for a wireless card that is easly compatible with linux, i have had a couple wireless cards in the past, and they haven't worked real well, i would prefer a card that all it needs is just some drivers that needed to be downloaded (i would prefer not to use ndiswrapper) also i can't get the zd1211 drivers to install on my computer, so nothing that uses those drivers...anyone have good suggestions?

_Gandalf_ · 2006-03-09 00:17:08

I don't know if there is a PCMCIA version of the Intel card, but i find ipw2200 is very easy just a driver... but i'm really not sure if there is one, i know that ipw2200 is an integrated card

iphitus · 2006-03-09 04:07:24

good chipsets: atheros (madwifi-ng), orinoco (vanilla), prism2 (wlan-ng), ipw2100/ipw2200 (vanilla), prism54 (vanilla)
unsure: ti-acx100/111, driver exists, not sure of state, should work though.
drivers in development, but unusable: broadcom, rt2500/rt2400/rt2570, prism54 usb, realtek8180, amtel usb,

redbeard · 2006-03-09 21:05:42

do any netgear cards have the atheros chipset?

tomk · 2006-03-09 23:03:55

Yes - see here.

brain0 · 2006-03-10 01:03:11

iphitus wrote:

unsure: ti-acx100/111, driver exists, not sure of state, should work though.
drivers in development, but unusable: broadcom, rt2500/rt2400/rt2570, prism54 usb, realtek8180, amtel usb,

About the ACX models: Forget them, the drivers are usable, but pain in the ass, everything is reverse engineered with much faith and not too much luck.

I wouldn't say that the rt cards are unusable, I use two rt2500 cards all the time.

rayjgu3 · 2006-03-10 02:10:05

air-pcm352
is what i have. all drivers/modules come with kernel
modprobe airo
modprobe airo_cs

after that setup all your wep ssid stuff your good to go
it has great range to
you can get them on ebay bout $40-50

redbeard · 2006-03-10 04:21:58

now i was thinking of dual booting w/ fedora 4 r the drivers included in that kernel too?

rayjgu3 · 2006-03-10 04:48:19

? dont know
i can say almost all live distro ive booted with work with it

archie
dsl
slax
knoppix
feather
ubuntu

i believe there was a few more like
beatrix
SOL(server optimized linux)
i cant recall some of the others

the one i know i have problems with the , live cd i really like , is puppy linux
this one once its loaded you can remove the cd from the drive
it will load modules but i cant seem to get it to connect

im sure all the live bsd's freesbie frenzie livebsd
would work as i did install bsd on my laptop but bsd dont recognize my mouse so i dont run those on there

iphitus · 2006-03-10 05:18:24

brain0 wrote:

iphitus wrote:
unsure: ti-acx100/111, driver exists, not sure of state, should work though.
drivers in development, but unusable: broadcom, rt2500/rt2400/rt2570, prism54 usb, realtek8180, amtel usb,
About the ACX models: Forget them, the drivers are usable, but pain in the ass, everything is reverse engineered with much faith and not too much luck.
I wouldn't say that the rt cards are unusable, I use two rt2500 cards all the time.

Depends on what you consider usable.
There's the old drivers which dont work with smp and prefetch, and thus do not work on the Arch kernels. Thus they suck on computers with dual core processors, hyperthreading, or more than one processor.
I've got a dual core proc, so to me, it's totally unusable, and its unusable to anyone on the arch kernels.

In mentioning that, I meant the the new rt2x00 which has worked for some people, but imho, is not ready for day to day use. As you yourself have seen (I can see you on those forums), they're slow, some find that it drops packets, and use up lotsa CPU. Of course, it's still in heavy development, and I am confident that these problems will be resolved.

iphitus

redbeard · 2006-03-10 20:18:59

alright well i got a netgear WG511T and im trying to install the madwifi driver using this http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo guide and i get to the part where it says type in as root:

wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta

once i hit enter i get something that says:

wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device

rayjgu3 · 2006-03-10 20:28:21

what does iwconfig give you
if nothing than run ifconfig -a
you should see your new network device
that is if its setup right

redbeard · 2006-03-10 20:41:18

[redbeard@localhost ~]$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[redbeard@localhost ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:18:F7:6D
inet addr:192.168.2.104 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fe18:f76d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7028 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15165852 (14.4 MiB) TX bytes:498871 (487.1 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3195530 (3.0 MiB) TX bytes:3195530 (3.0 MiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

rayjgu3 · 2006-03-10 20:58:48

looks to me sit0 is your wireless
so try dhcpcd sit0

LB06 · 2006-03-10 21:57:29

rayjgu3 wrote:

looks to me sit0 is your wireless
so try dhcpcd sit0

sit0 provides a IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel (whatever that means). It's not your wlan.

rayjgu3 · 2006-03-10 22:21:27

LB06 wrote:

sit0 provides a IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel (whatever that means). It's not your wlan.

id say something aint right then
i havent messed with madwifi so i dont know
[/code]

tomk · 2006-03-10 22:51:17

Welcome to the bleeding-edge, redbeard.

Forget about sit0 - LB06 is right, it's not your wlan.

Thanks to iphitus, you can now get everything you need from the Arch [unstable] repo - specifically, madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-utils. Uninstall whatever you've done so far, install the [unstable] packages, and then go back to that HOWTO, starting with

Loading the MADWiFi Module

You should be fine from there.

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