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Contents 1 Atheros 1.1 AR5006EG/AR242x/AR5007 1.2 AR5418 2 D-Link 2.1 DWL-G520 2.2 DWL-G630 2.3 DWL-G650 3 Intel 3.1 Intel 3945 4 LinkSys 5 Broadcom 5.1 bcm4311 5.2 BCM4318 6 Encore 6.1 rtl8180

[edit] Atheros

[edit] AR5006EG/AR242x/AR5007

Your wireless card may be misreported as AR5006 or AR242x, when it is actually AR5007. Madwifi now has support for AR5007 in two different specialized tarballs.

• For i686: Download http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
• For x86_64: Download http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3698-20080604.tar.gz

tar xf <madwifi-tarball.tar.gz>
cd <madwifi-tarball>
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe ath_pci
sudo reboot

[edit] AR5418

This network adapter is supported by madwifi. (Tested on MacBook Pro Rev3)

[edit] D-Link

[edit] DWL-G520

Works with the madwifi driver. WEP works, have not tried WPA.

[edit] DWL-G630

Works with the madwifi driver, including WEP, WPA, and monitor mode.

[edit] DWL-G650

Works with the madwifi driver, including WEP, WPA, and monitor mode.

[edit] Intel

[edit] Intel 3945

Installed and working with iwl3945 and netcfg2.

[edit] LinkSys

The WUSB54GC adapter works correctly with rt73usb module

[edit] Broadcom

[edit] bcm4311

Works with bcm43xx module of kernel >= 2.6.21 (kernel 2.6.22 includes new bugfixes, works better but not noticeable)

[edit] BCM4318

Works with ndiswrapper. Have not tried fwcutter method.

[edit] Encore

[edit] rtl8180

This 802.11b PCI (mine is a PCMCIA) card is based on RTL8180L chipset from RealTek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. I got this wireless card to work using rtl8180 0.22_pre20070726-1 package from AUR. If you have Yaourt installed, just use it to install rtl8180 package:

$ yaourt -S rtl8180

Currently working without flaw with kernel 2.6.23. I did use (and recommend) netcfg2 to set up your wireless connection.