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.

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.

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