Any wireless network cards that will work on Gentoo?

Roxxor

I ran Gentoo before on my laptop and I loved it, except for that my wireless D-Link DWL-G650 wouldn't work on it. Whatever I did, Gentoo couldn't recognize the card (yes, I tried with all drivers on the whole Internet). I changed to SuSE where my card worked, but Suse is so extremely slow, so I want to run Gentoo again. But I think I have to change network card, so is there any card that is easy to install and configure in Gentoo?

Ferdinando · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject:

Just pick up one of those listed in the kernel's drivers and you'll be fine. There are also a lot of cards for which external drivers are needed, most of them simply require you to recompile your driver everytime you compile a new kernel.
Perhaphs you'll find this list useful.
Btw, I don't think there can be something which works in SuSE and doesn't in Gentoo unless SuSE is using some proprietary patch; probably if you compare the two kernel sources you'll find out how to make your card work.
Edit: have you tried with madwifi-driver?

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Roxxor · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:

Sorry for the late post

Yes, I have tried madwifi (many times).

I have compared the network sections in borth Gentoo and Suse and I can not find any big differences (and the "small" differences have not with the card to do).

Can some of you guys post the name and name of chipset of your wireless network card and tell me if the only thing to get the card wokring is to compile some support that EXISTS in kernel. Thanks!

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

D-Link DWL-G520 PCI
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

* net-wireless/madwifi-ng 0.9.2

The only kernel support is the Wireless Extensions.

Hope this helps.
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Naib · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

I have a ralink based card and it works great - took a bit of time to track down exactly what card series used that chipset (manu tend to change the chip BUT keep the same product name)
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Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 931

TRENDnet TEW-441PC, D-Link WNA-2330. Both are 802.11g and support WPA/WPA2.
Driver = madwifi.

LoSeR_5150 · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject:

Kernel support compiled in is Wireless Extensions

lspci output: