Hardware4Linux

Overall rating: 3.2 x 7

By Linux distribution:

• Ubuntu 7.04 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Mandriva Linux 2008.0 i586: 5.0 x 1
• Arch Linux Duke GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: -3.0 x 1
• Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 GenuineIntel: 5.0 x 1
• openSUSE 10.3 i586: 3.0 x 1

Working network cards on Ubuntu 7.04 i386 (kernel: 2.6.20-15-386) by thibs (3):

I don’t know if it works out of the box now, but when I first installed my system (in 2003), I had to manually install the madwifi drivers to have my wireless connection working.

Working network cards on Arch Linux Duke GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.22.1) by ttux (5):

perfect with madwifi

Working network cards on Debian lenny/sid i386 (kernel: 2.6.22.5-cfs-v20.2) by flamy (-3):

Works after downloading and compiling sources from madwifi. Debian version of packaging is too old.

Support, especially of network-manager is flaky at best, usually able to connect to a wireless network only from the third try.

Doesn’t really work if the OS was suspended to ram or hibernated, restarting network-manager will not suffice, you’ll have to reboot the computer.

Working network cards on Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3) by lmiphay (5):

madwifi

Working network cards on openSUSE 10.3 i586 (kernel: 2.6.22.17-0.1-default) by gholzknecht (3):

madwifi needed, supports only WEP encryption

• 2722DG1
• ThinkPad T40p
• ThinkPad T40p
• ThinkPad T40p
• ThinkPad T40
• Thinkpad T41
• ThinkPad T40

• ath_pci