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List of Tested Cards

Belkin Wireless Notebook Network Card

Manufacturer : Belkin
Model Number : F5D6020 Version 3
Card Type : PCMCIA
Chipset : rtl8180
Wireless : 802.11b
Encryption : WEP (64/128 bit)
Description : Wireless Notebook Network Card IEEE 802.11b/11Mbps

Works in Linux : NO
Native Linux Drivers : NO
Works Out of Box : NO
Difficulty Level : 5
Installation Notes : Complete pain to get working. Windows drivers do NOT work with NdisWrapper. Card must be configured manually after every reboot. Tutorial to get working can be found here.
Side Notes : I would NOT recommend buying this card if you have not done so already.

Belkin Wireless G Notebook Network Card

Manufacture : Belkin
Model Number : F5D7010
Card Type : PCMCIA
Chipset : rtl2500
Wireless : 802.11g
Encryption : WEP (64/128 bit)
Description : Wireless Notebook Network Card IEEE 802.11g/54Mbps

Works in Linux : NO
Native Linux Drivers : NO
Works Out of Box : NO
Difficulty Level : 5
Installation Notes : Had this card working ok for three months like a dream with the rt2500 stable driver which can be found along with the howto at.
I then switched to the latest version of the driver which made the card unstable. With the stable version of the rt2500 driver kismet and aircrack worked straight off, card takes a bit of work to get going but having 54Mbps connection is the prize but if you don't like hassle and you have not already bought this card think hard before buying.

I have this same model card, but it has the Atheros chipset in in. It is version 5000. I used the madwfi drivers available at atrpms.net and it was reasonably straightforward.

GigaFast Wireless PCMCIA Adapter

Manufacturer : GigaFast Ethernet
Model Number : WF721-AEX
Card Type : PCMCIA
Chipset : Depends on serial number: Rxxxxxxx is Realtek rtl8180, Txxxxxxx is Texas Instruments ACX100, Axxxxxx is Atmel AT76C502A, Cxxxxxxx is a ??Prism based chipset??
Wireless : 802.11b
Encryption : WEP (64/128 bit)
Description : GigaFast's WF721-AEX IEEE802.11b compiant 11 Mbps Wireless PCMCIA Adapter.

Works in Linux : YES - Cxxxxxxx is untested
Native Linux Drivers : YES (for 2.4.x kernels) - no drivers provided for Cxxxxxxxx or Txxxxxxx chipsets on vendor's websites, only Axxxxxxx and Rxxxxxxxx
Works Out of Box : NO
Difficulty Level : 1
Installation Notes : The Windows XP drivers work perfectly using NdisWrapper for 2.6x kernels (Realtek), (Texas).

See this page for information on using the Amtel chipset. Also see the Open source Amtel driver. Should work for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

The ACX100 chipset works perfectly on 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. See ACX100 Howto.

No information available about the Cxxxxxxxxx chipset (other than that it is a Prism).

Z-com's Wireless PCMCIA Adapter

Manufacturer : Z-Com
Model Number : XI-325
Card Type : Wireless PCMCIA (Type II) LAN card
Chipset : prism2
Driver : Can use either hermes or hostap
Description : Fully compliant to 2.4 GHz Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) 802.11b 11M and interoperable with Wi-Fi certified products. Different from other PCMCIA products, hardware enabling 64/128-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) data encryption is supported. Detachable antenna version is specifically designed for SI solution.
Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES (both hermes and hostap drivers work for 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels)
Works Out of Box : Yes :-)
Difficulty Level : 0 (hermes drivers detect the card immediately
Difficulty Level : 1 (hostap drivers may need to be compiled but very easy)
Notes : Use the hospap driver if you want to use wireless dection tools like kismet and aircrack You will also be able to use the wlan-ng tools like iwpriv, iwevent iwlist and iwspy

ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card (Wireless PCMCIA Adapter)

Manufacturer : Proxim(??)
Model Number : 8480-WD
Card Type : Wireless PCMCIA (Type II) LAN card
Chipset : Atheros
Driver : Use the atheros driver to get the best out of this card
Description : 11a/b/g card. The ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC card can be used anywhere to connect to a Wi-Fi network. The Classic PC Card can also be used as a radio in the ORiNOCO AP-2000, AP-2500 and Outdoor Router products. The card delivers high-speed wireless networking at 11 Mbit/s, operating in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed frequency. With superior radio receiver sensitivity and resilience to microwave interference, ORiNOCO has proven to be the best 802.11b radio in the industry – delivering unbeatable range and throughput performance.
Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES (Use the atheros driver, 2.6.x kernels)
Works Out of Box : Dunno. I had to use the atheros driver.
Difficulty Level : 1 (compile the atheros driver. There's detailed instructions in the aircrack source code- very easy)
Notes : This card flies. Very low power consumption and also sensitive to wireless networks. May need to patch the driver to use it with wireless dection tools like kismet. The atheros driver works great with aircrack

3Com AirConnect Wireless LAN PC Card (Wireless PCMCIA Adapter)

Manufacturer : 3Com
Model Number : 3CRWE737 96b-E1
Card Type : Wireless PCMCIA (Type II) LAN card
Chipset : dunno
Driver : Hermes
Description : 11a/b card.
Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES (2.4.x, 2.6.x kernels)
Works Out of Box : Yes.
Difficulty Level : 0
Notes : I use this card for basic wireless services. Not found or looked for a patch to realease extra "features" ;-)

Linksys WPC11 Version 3 "Instant Wireless"

Manufacturer : Linksys
Model Number : WPC11 Version 3
Card Type : PCMCIA
Chipset : Prism 2.5
Wireless : 802.11b
Encryption : WEP (64/128 bit), WPA reportedly works with hostap drivers and there's a buggy windows implementation too
Description : Wireless Notebook Network Card IEEE 802.11b/11Mbps

Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES
Works Out of Box : YES
Difficulty Level : 0
Installation Notes : Works great, has 3 different drivers that work with it (orinoco, hostap, wlan_ng), works nicely with ndiswrapper and if you're using kernel 2.6.17+, WPA even works! The only thing that i'd want more is a) a stronger reciever and b) 802.11g support.

Asus WL-107G PCMCIA card

Manufacturer : Asus
Model Number : WL-107G
Card Type : PCMCIA
Chipset : Ralink 2500
Driver : rt2500
Wireless : 802.11g
Description : Asus WL-107G PCMCIA card.
Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES
Works Out of Box : NO
Difficulty Level : 2
Notes : The driver for this card is not included with BLAG. Download drivers from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com. Ensure that you have make and gcc installed and simply extract the archive, cd into the source directory, "make" then "make install". The driver is now installed. Detailed instructions are on the website.

Intel ipw3945

This sucker is in the newest Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPads, the testing for this card was done on a ThinkPad R60e running a fully up-to-date BLAG-50001, kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.

For 50001 you need to download and install these RPMs from ATRPMs. To install use:

rpm -Uvh package_name

The packages:

ieee80211-1.2.15-14.fc5.at.i386.rpm
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-1.2.15-14.fc5.at.i686.rpm
ipw3945-1.1.0-12_pre2.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-1.1.0-12_pre2.rhfc5.at.i686.rpm
ipw3945d-1.7.18-1.i386.rpm
ipw3945-firmware-1.13-1.noarch.rpm

Then run:

/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ipw3945
/sbin/ipw3945d

Then wireless is going.

This line needs to be run as root on each reboot:

/sbin/ipw3945d

To have this daemon run at startup, edit /etc/rc.local by adding the following line to the end:

/sbin/ipw3945d

Getting network itself is an exercise for the reader ;)

Netgear Wireless-G 54 USB Adapter (WG111v3)

Manufacturer : Netgear
Model Number : WG111 v3
Card Type : USB (2.0 and 1.1)
Chipset : rtl8187
Wireless : IEEE 802.11b/g 54Mbps
Encryption : WEP/WPA/WPA2
Description : Wireless USB Card. Delivered with cradle and fastener.

Works in Linux : YES
Native Linux Drivers : YES
Works Out of Box : YES
Difficulty Level : 1

Automatically detected with a kernel-libre and kernel-libre-firmware packages. Tested with this kernel : 2.6.32.19-libre.163.fc12.x86_64. BLAG 119K. Should also work with the other kernels versions.

Tutorials

ndiswrapper

Belkin Wireless Notebook Network Card - F5D6020 Version 3

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