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shreko

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Posted: Aug. 22 2006,19:40

I need a wireless card that works preferably out of the box or with minimum intervention with DSL

My local store sells these:

D-Link DWL-510
Linksys WMP54G
D-Link DWL-520+
Netgear WG311NA
SMC 2802W-CA

Any of these cards works?

Thanks

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Posted: Aug. 22 2006,20:01

You can see some listed in the wiki: http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Verified_Wireless_Cards
or you could possibly search the forum for the others.

shreko

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Posted: Aug. 22 2006,20:10

Thanks, I have checked that list already, not listed there, searched previous post as well. I've already spend 2 hours trying to find out before I posted this topic.

Any other suggestions?

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Posted: Aug. 22 2006,21:02

You could find each chipset and search/compare by that too if you want - and see which drivers support them.

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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,06:24

Are you talking PC Card (pcmcia) or PCI cards? I have a d-link wna-1330 pc card for the laptop that works with dsl's included madwifi thingus (it's an atheros chipset). I also have a belkin f5d7000 pci card in my desktop, also an atheros chipset, also works with madwifi.

On both I've got the madwifi*.uci installed at boot, and then run madwifi_setup.sh in bootlocal.sh. Works flawlessly.

Poke around the respective manufacturers' websites for the cards you listed. Chances are pretty good that if they use the atheros chipset it'll work with madwifi. Otherwise it will probably work with ndiswrapper (just pull the .inf (and .sys?) from the driver cd). I'd also suggest googling for each card and linux, see if other people have got them working and how.

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