Verified Wireless Cards
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Remember that this is just a partial list. There are many cards in addition to the ones listed that will work with DSL.
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Introduction
By far the most common question that comes with people who are new to DSL is, "Will my wireless card work?" The short answer is yes.
The long answer is, it may take a little work, but you will be pleased with the results.
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Cards That Work "Out of the Box"
Here is a list of known cards that work "out of the box" so to speak. Little or no config required.
USB
PenDragon USB Pendrive (128Mb) with Wireless (Prism3);also bootable
Syntax Group USB-400 Wifi
PCI
Linksys WMP55AG pci (DSL 3.2)
Netgear MA311 PCI (all versions)
PCMCIA
2wire (Intersil Prism2) 802.11b
AT&T Plug&Share 6700g
Avaya Wireless Silver Card 802.11b PCMCIA (Orinoco Silver)
Cisco Aironet 350
Compaq WL110 (which is apparently just a branded Orinocco)<added 8/06
D-Link DWL-G650 v.C2
D-Link DWL-650 (16-bit ONLY!)
Dynex DX-WGNBC (Best Buy store brand - How To)
ELSA Airlancer MC 11 (PCMCIA)
Farallon SkyLINE 11mb (Intersil Prism2)(PCMCIA)
Hawking Technologies 11M Wireless Ethernet Card (PCMCIA)
NEC PC-WL/11C (PCMCIA)
Netgear MA401 PCMCIA (all versions)
Netgear WG511T PCMCIA (with non-free warnings)
Orinoco Gold v8.72
Ralink PCMCIA
Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold
Lucent Technologies Orinoco Silver PC24E-H-FC
SMC2632Wv2
SMC 2453 (Typo? I think you mean 2435.)
SMCWCB-G (Atheros)
Symbol LA-4121
WaveBuddy 11WP-611AL 802.11b PC Card
ENCORE Wireless SuperG Cardbus Adapter ENPWI-SG (Atheros 802.11b/g)
3Com 3CRXJK10075 (Rev: AB) M/N : WL532 commercial name : OfficeConnect Wireless 108 Mbps 11g XJACK PC Card
Unknown/Other
Accton WN 3101J
Atheros 802.11b/g (IBM OEM Mini PCI in T41,42)
Dell True Mobile 1150 (Prism 2 Agere systems
Proxim RangeLAN-DS (with 0.83 firmware)
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Use the Prism2 GUI With These Cards
USB
Actiontec 802U13 USB
Ashton digital Airdash WRUB-2011i 802.11b USB
D-Link DWL-122 USB
Microsoft MN-510 USB
Netgear USB MA111 (v1 and v2) (DrR: v2 is SiS162U chipset - not supported by prism2 drivers)
PCI
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PCMCIA
Microsoft MN-520 (works better than with windows!)
DSE (Dick Smith Electronics) W-Lan card XH7918
Intel pro Wireless Lan pci 2011B 802.11b
Linksys WPC11 (all but v.4.0)
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Cards That Work, But May Take Some Effort
These cards won't work out of the box, but most of them work with ndiswrapper, drivers from the manufacturer's site, or with a little work. Look also here
Airlink+ model #WLH3010 802.11g PCI (Broadcom chipset)
Airlink+ model #AWLH3025 802.11g PCI (Abocom ACX-100 chipset)
Belkin F5D7000
Belkin F5D7010 (Broadcom BCM94306: bcmwl5.inf - from driver CD, E-Machines, etc.)
Belkin F5D6020 v2 (see this)
Belkin F5D7050 rev.b (driver & scripts => here)
Blitzz Net Wave Point PC 802.11b PCMCIA
Broadcom 4318: Works with ndiswrapper and bcmwl5.inf driver.
Broadcom BCM4306: Works with ndiswrapper and bcmwl5a.inf driver.
Cameo WLB-1201 PCI: works well with the generix XP driver by Realtek for RTL 8180 chipsets.
Compaq W200 usb ( orinoco usb chipset ) --> only if driver is added to kernel
Cnet CWP-854 PCI: Works well with the supplied RT2500.INF driver for XP via ndiswrapper
Digitus DN-7001 GR (driver & scripts => here)
D-Link DWL-G630 Rev.E2 (newest) (driver & scripts => here)
D-Link DWL-G630 Rev.C works using Madwifi-NG.uci but not older madwifi.dsl (by: firecat53)
D-Link DWL-G510 Rev B. works using Madwifi-NG.uci but not older madwifi.dsl
D-Link WNA-1300 works well using the driver from the CD that comes with the NIC or the one found on the D-Link website via ndiswrapper.
D-Link DWL-G122 Rev.C1 (driver & scripts => here)
Draytek Vigor 240 (Intersil Prism GT ISL3890 - needs firmware from www.prism54.org & firmware.agent from hotplug on sourceforge)
Edimax EW-7126 (RTL-8180 chip)
Encore enuwi-g usb works with the ndiswrapper of Suse 10.2 distros
Gigafast 741-UIC usb / Zydas 1201 chipset
II 2216 PCMCIA
Inprocomm IPN2220 (It identifies itself in Linux as a Linksys WPC54G v4, use these drivers and ndiswrapper, See here
Intel Pro Wireless 2100 (ndiswrapper. See this)
Intel Pro Wireless 2200
Level One WNC-0301USB (RT2571W chip): Works natively on 2.4/6 kernels. Driver must be compiled, and there is a dependancy on kernel source code.
Level One WNC-0301USB (RT2571W chip): Works non-natively using the NDIS Wrapper (which would be an easier install than the native driver).
Linksys G54
Linksys WPC11 V4.0
Linksys WMP54G V2 PCI Adapter (Broadcomm chipset) works with ndiswrapper, with or without WEP
Linksys WPC51AB
Linksys WPC54G ver 1 PCMCIA (works with ndiswrapper (via DSLpanel control panel) & Linksys driver 3.30.15.0 dated 07/17/2003. Worked with WEP too.)
Linksys WPC54G ver 2 PCMCIA (works with ndiswrapper)
Linksys WPC54G ver 3 PCMCIA (see above)
Linksys WPC54G ver 5 PCMCIA (ndiswrapper from commandline, use lsmvnds.inf for driver install)
Linksys WUSB54GC (driver & scripts => here, driver:rt73.o)
Motorola WN825G (Certain drivers will freeze on modprobe. Update Driver version 1.1 works.)
MSI US54SE (driver & scripts => here)
Netgear MA521 (with ndiswrapper from commandline and driver ndis5x-8180(173).zip from realtek)
Netgear WG511U Atheros chipset setup with modprobe in bootlocal.sh
Pretec CompactWLAN 802.11b MODEL:OC-WLBXX-A (howto => [1]) Works with supplied CF-PCMCIA adaptor.
SMC 2635W pcmcia / ADMtek
SMC USB EZ-Connect with zydas driver link post
Syntax USB 400 / Prism 3
Trendnet TEW-226PC PCMCIA w/ Realtek RTL8180 chipset. Works using ndiswrapper then wlcardconfig.
Trendnet TEW-421PC PCMCIA w/ Marvell chipset. Verified to work on DSL 3.0 using ndiswrapper then Netcardconfig (by: edgecrusher)
US Robotics 2210 PCI
US Robotics 5416
VCTnet AirXpress PC11BR (with driver compiled from www.realtek.com.tw)
WIFIWALKER FA-1200G with zydas driver link post
Xterasys XN-2422g
Zaapa wlan usb 802.11.b y 2003 driver atmel link
ZyXEL - G102 (Atheros chipset) run wlconfig, iwconfig, set ipconfig, add route.
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Cards That Don't Work
These cards have never been used successfully with DSL.
Encore ENPWI-G2 (needs ieee802 - 2.6 kernel)
Linksys WUSB54G v1 + v2 (requires 2.6 kernel and ndiswrapper)
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More Info
Most cards will work with DSL. The easiest are cards based on the "Prism 2" and "Orinoco" chipsets. All but the most exotic cards can be made to work.
For info on whether or not your card works in DSL using ndiswrapper, see List of cards that work with ndiswrapper. Remember, DSL runs on a 2.4.26 / 2.4.31 kernel, so, in theory, any card that works with a 2.4 kernel should work in DSL. The ndiswrapper List page also has per card instructions for getting cards working with ndiswrapper.
Share the wealth! If you can get your card to work with DSL, report it here under the appropriate section.
