Guest wcboyd Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Anyone know which companies make wireless network cards with native Linux support? Or I guess another way of asking ~ which companies are friendly enough towards Linux to tell you how to configure their cards under Linux? Thanks, Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Frankly, with ndiswrapper, the question is a little unimportant. But, not very many venders actually support linux. A few of the ones who do do not have adequet tech support to answer any questions, even simple ones. So, here and other linux places offer the best support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemtah Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 Hello, Just bought few days ago the wireless 11g pcmcia cardbus MSI CB54G2 which works perfectly with mandriva 2006. I had really nothing to do. So for me i recommand that card which work very nicely and recognised by mandiva chipset ralink 2500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Maybe you could look at the hardware databases of the linux-distributors for mandriva it's here: http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/hardware/ The problem is that even if the manufacturer does support linux in some way, not every product is supported, 3Com has wifi-cards that are supported under linux, there is even a driver out there for them, but not all of their cards are supported, important is, which chipset the card uses, the manufacturer itself is not so relevant best thing is a card with a chipset that is supported directly in linux, without such things like ndiswrapper, while you might get some cards to work with it, it's not always granted, therefore the question is not so unimportant as it might seem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannin Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 The same goes for Linksys cards. Linksys has some wireless network cards with native drivers you can compile yourself, and some do not. It all depends upon which chipset the card uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 If you get an Atheros chipset based card, ndiswrapper is your only choice, since madwifi is beta, and doesn't seem to work correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyspongebob Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Intel has the pro 2200 series (methink) that is linux supported natively. This card is on centrino. I tried both Mandriva2006 and Ubuntu Breezy, and both recogized the wireless card J.T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 I always read: If you want a working wireless card, go for Orinoco chips... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 If you get an Atheros chipset based card, ndiswrapper is your only choice, since madwifi is beta, and doesn't seem to work correctly. The newer madwifi-ng driver seems to work correctly for quite a lot of people out there. All of intels wireless cards have drivers, however i'm not sure whether you can get one in pci/pcmcia form. orinoco and prism54 based cards are good, iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Joseph Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 If you get an Atheros chipset based card, ndiswrapper is your only choice, since madwifi is beta, and doesn't seem to work correctly. The newer madwifi-ng driver seems to work correctly for quite a lot of people out there. All of intels wireless cards have drivers, however i'm not sure whether you can get one in pci/pcmcia form. orinoco and prism54 based cards are good, iphitus Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b card is well supported by most Linux distros, although the card does not support WPA encryption. It has worked with most Linux distrow's I tried it with. The Orinoco Gold Classic card ( not the one sold by Prism) also has good Linux support. An Atheros based card that has worked with several distros is the NetGear WG511T card. It also supports WPA encryption. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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