HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)
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Atheros
AR5006EG/AR242x/AR5007
Your wireless card may be misreported as AR5006 or AR242x, when it is actually AR5007. Madwifi now has support for AR5007 in two different specialized tarballs.
- For i686: Download http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
- For x86_64: Download http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz
tar xf <madwifi-tarball.tar.gz> cd <madwifi-tarball> make sudo make install sudo modprobe ath_pci sudo reboot
Atheros 5xxx
Madwifi has also released the ath5k driver which supports AR5xxx cards including AR5007. ath5k should automatically be loaded.
AR5418
This network adapter is supported by madwifi. (Tested on MacBook Pro Rev3)
D-Link
DWL-G520
Works with the madwifi driver. WEP works, have not tried WPA.
DWL-G630
Works with the madwifi driver, including WEP, WPA, and monitor mode.
DWL-G650
Works with the madwifi driver, including WEP, WPA, and monitor mode.
Intel
Intel 3945
Installed and working with iwl3945 and netcfg2.
LinkSys
The WUSB54GC adapter works correctly with rt73usb module
Broadcom
bcm4311
Works with bcm43xx module of kernel >= 2.6.21 (kernel 2.6.22 includes new bugfixes, works better but not noticeable)
BCM4312
Works with broadcom-wl driver. There's a PKGBUILD in the AUR for it.
BCM4318
Works with ndiswrapper. Have not tried fwcutter method.
Encore
rtl8180
This 802.11b PCI (mine is a PCMCIA) card is based on RTL8180L chipset from RealTek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. I got this wireless card to work using rtl8180 0.22_pre20070726-1 package from AUR. If you have Yaourt installed, just use it to install rtl8180 package:
$ yaourt -S rtl8180
Currently working without flaw with kernel 2.6.23. I did use (and recommend) netcfg2 to set up your wireless connection.