Networking :: USB Wireless Support

Using a D-Link USB, works fine when selecting the "Prism" thingy in the DSL control panel on my main machine. I have another machine that I ended up doing the ndiswrapper thing on, which worked.

However, I would stay away from D-Link if you can help it. You get what you pay for when using D-Link.

And Airlink+

They are teh suck.

Ya know, this might be a little off topic but, today I bought a Netgear FA 120 USB to ethernet adapter for my bench. After reading this thread I was not aware that usb wirless stuff was working in linux, so I thought I would try my new adapter in DSL on my old pentium 133 laptop, and you know what, it works great and is very fast. Thanks for getting the creative juices flowing. I'm sure the netgear USB Wireless adapter probably works also, I may have to pick one up.

Here's a wireless (wifi) 802.11b card that doesn't work. It isn't even recognized. It's a Seimens "SpeedStream".

I need to find a list of supported wireless (wifi) cards so I'll know what to purchase. I'd like to run security tools with it.

corp-mule

According to this website http://linux_wless.passys.nl/ your Siemens Speedstream has the Prism2/2.5/3 chipset.
But it sounds like your device is not being automatically detected. So run "lsmod" to see if "prism2_usb" is there. If so, that's good, if not, try to load it manually - "modprobe prism2_usb". If you get no errors, you can now try the Prism2 configuration launcher in the DSLpanel.

And regarding USB adaptors that definitely work - my D-Link DWL-122 is great. I regularly copy large files between Windows (ethernet) and Linux (wireless) using smbclient or LinNeighborhood+filebrowser.

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