Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

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AirLink 101

AWLC5025

MIMO XR Cardbus Adapter. Works with rt2x00 drivers (rt61pci to be exact). After installing linux-firmware it was configured using wicd (WPA works).

Atheros

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

Atheros 5xxx

Madwifi has also released the ath5k driver which supports AR5xxx cards including AR5007. ath5k should automatically be loaded.

AR5418

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

D-Link

DWA-125

Works with ralink drivers (rt3070sta)

DWA-140

Works with ralink drivers (rt2870sta, rt3070sta).

Since Kernel 3.0.1, the staging driver has been removed, the serialmonkey driver (rt2800usb) being the only one left. It may malfunction on some system, complaining for DHCP timeout. In that case increasing the timeout should do the trick (i.e. adding TIMEOUT=60 to your netcfg profile).

DWL-G520

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

Confirmed, using WEP and ath_pci (had to blacklist ath5k in MODULES in /etc/rc.conf) and netcfg2/net-profiles.

DWL-G630

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

DWL-G650

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

Intel

Intel 3945

Installed and working with iwl3945 and netcfg2.

LinkSys

The WUSB54GC adapter works correctly with rt73usb module

Broadcom

bcm4311

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

BCM4312

Works with broadcom-wl driver. There's a PKGBUILD in the AUR for it.

BCM4318

Works with ndiswrapper. Have not tried fwcutter method.

Works with b43 driver and fwcutter method (Belkin Wireless G+ PCCard FSD7011 v2000)

Realtek

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 from the AUR.

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

rtl8188ce

This card is currently what Thinkpad is using for their default wireless NIC, though I have noticed that it is also a common laptop device in general.

Though Realtek cards work to some degree, this card needs a bit of work. It uses the rtl8192ce module, though out of the box its connectivity is spotty. To improve (not fix) this issue, the optimum settings I have found are to set fwlps=0 and ips=0. Some have indicated that building the driver found on the Realtek site showed improvement, some (myself included) saw performance regression. Also keep in mind that the Realtek site's module cannot be built against the current kernel, thus linux-lts must be used.

HCL/Network Adapters (Wireless)

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