USB Wireless SupportForum: Networking Topic: USB Wireless Support started by: DavidC Posted by DavidC on Nov. 26 2003,17:30
Is there a list of supported USB wireless NICs?Thanks- -d. Posted by jdb on Nov. 26 2003,22:44
there is no set list. Almost all cards except microsoft will work. I use a Netgear and it works fine.
Posted by DavidC on Nov. 27 2003,15:45
Which Netgear USB nic are your using? Does it work with the supplied drivers, or did you have to add / manually configure? Thanks- -d. Posted by DavidC on Dec. 05 2003,03:44
<Bump>Anyone? Thanks- -d. Posted by tronik on Jan. 10 2005,15:49
I'm using a NetGear MA111 wireless USB Key and it works finel
Posted by green on Jan. 11 2005,02:41
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. Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 11 2005,05:22
And Airlink+They are teh suck. Posted by caulktel on Jan. 11 2005,05:38
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.
Posted by corp-mule on June 24 2005,03:29
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 Posted by tempestuous on June 24 2005,09:35
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. Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on June 24 2005,13:58
So far I haven't figure out how to get my SMC2662W v2 to work - according to the site linked above, it is possible to get working under linux, but I have no clue how to get it going...Apparently the chipset is Atmel, something about using atmelwlandriver from < http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html, > uses RFMD radio...?? I downloaded the linux drivers from SMC's site a while ago, but I think they need to be compiled etc... Do I really have to go to those lengths? Posted by tempestuous on June 24 2005,14:29
RoGuE_StreaKSee my posts here < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3904 > I had success compiling some of the Atmel drivers, but unfortunately for your situation, I was unsuccessful with the USB versions. At least the information is there for you to try the compilation yourself. Posted by tempestuous on July 05 2005,13:46
Now that I have the full kernel source, and a recompiled kernel, I can compile the complete set of Atmel drivers.pcmcia versions - 502rfmd 502rfmd revision d 502rfmd revision e 502 3COM 504 504+2958 504A+2958 usb versions - 503A RFMD RFMD 505 RFMD 505 + 2958 RFMD 505A RFMD 505A Maxim 1 miniPCI version. I will try to work out how to make a mydsl package of these. In the meantime email me if you want one. Craig S |