Hardware4Linux

Overall rating: 3.7 x 8

By Linux distribution:

• Debian 4.0 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
• Debian lenny/sid i386: 3.0 x 1
• MEPIS 7.0 i386: 5.0 x 1
• Arch Linux Core Dump GenuineIntel: 3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 7.10 i386: 3.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64: 5.0 x 1
• Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64: 3.0 x 1
• Fedora 15 i386: 5.0 x 1

Working PCI wireless cards on Debian 4.0 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.22.1) by bjonnh (3):

Needs to install firmware.
NetworkManager won’t work well with it. But wpa_assistant saved my life :)
Added the packet injection patch too.

Working PCI wireless cards on Mandriva Linux 2007.0 i586 (kernel: 2.6.17-15mdv) by david (0):

not tested at this time

Working PCI wireless cards on MEPIS 7.0 i386 (kernel: 2.6.22-1-mepis-smp) by linuxfan (5):

Mepis was the first distro I tried that the wireless actually worked “out of the box”

Working PCI wireless cards on Arch Linux Core Dump GenuineIntel (kernel: 2.6.24-ARCH) by alexis211 (3):

I had to manually install firmware.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 7.10 i386 (kernel: 2.6.23.11) by bjonnh (3):

Needs firmware. And this card is really a crap thing. Need to be really near from wifi emitters compared to other cards.

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.24-19-generic) by moir (5):

Using restricted drivers manager

Working PCI wireless cards on Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 (kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic) by newbeewan (3):

Need some closed source driver provided by the ubuntu hardware drivers utilities

Working PCI wireless cards on Fedora 15 i386 (kernel: 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686) by heethen (5):

Depends on distribution. Fedora 15 out of the box. Others may need drivers.

• Aspire 3100
• Aspire 5310
• Aspire 3690
• Aspire 5720Z
• Aspire 5310
• Extensa 5420
• Aspire 5315
• Extensa 5220
• Extensa 5220
• Extensa 5220

• bcm43xx
• ndiswrapper
• b43-pci-bridge
• wl