which wireless card to use

I have Mandrake 10.1 installed. I have had trouble getting my PCI wireless card to work in Linux. It's a D-Link 520-e card. According to what I've read is that it needs to have the firmware flashed and the driver loaded. I think it said it has a primary and secondary firmware that had to be flashed. I've checked in several forums and it seems no one is getting this card to work. It uses the Prism chip set. Anyway, from what I have read my particular is a real pain to get to work.

I was thinking about getting a different wireless card. I was just wondering if their was a certain card that would be easy to install. My router is a netgear and I'm using the 802.11b card.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks :sad:

Ive gotton alot to work,

WUSB54G - Linksys
WUSB12 - Linksys (needs firmware windows only)
Dells broadcom windows only wireless-g adapter (used ndiswrapper)
Cisco Aironet Cards (kernel 2.6 has support)

you will need the wireless-tools installed if there not already.

just a FYI, you will need to re-compile the kernel and add in your ard if its supported by the kernel

look here, http://www.linux-sec.net/Wireless/Drivers/

they have listing of cards and some support

you ahve the D-Link DWL-G520?

if so ndiswrapper may work for that card

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

thanks for the reply. No the card I have is the D-Link PCI DWL -520e.
I have been reading in some forums and a lot of people are having trouble with that card. I'm starting to think it might be easier going with a card that easy to work with than spending a lot of hours on the one I already have.

I would like to get wireless working in Linux though. That would make me a happy camper.....

Thanks for the reply

I use a Netgear WG511, revision F I believe, which was a little extra hassle being a Cardbus card. Had a little trouble getting the right firmware, and ended up installing the drivers under windows and coyping an .arm file from C:\system or \system32 to the hotplug directory and renaming it to what ever the card and hotplug expect it to be.

A good list of supported cards is http://www.prism54.org/supported_cards.php , but this is only cards supported by the prism54 drivers, and not the other systems. Good luck in your search.