Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

DWA-642

Atheros AR5416

Ndiswrapper + Madwifi

Possibly ??

Yes after howto

No

To get this card to work, follow the following tutorial: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5890620#post5890620 and you should be able to get this card (and possibly this chipset) to work properly. The howto is what I have done to get it to work, and it has worked very well.

4 October, 2008

DWL-G520+

? (Texas-Instruments ???)

acx111

Yes

Yes

Yes (WPA not out-of-the-box)

Works fine together with AirPort Express, using 128 bit WEP. Works with WPA with ndswrapper drivers and without NetworkManager (wpa_supplicant from command line).

2008-04-08

DWL-G520+A

ralink

rt61

?

No

No

lspci shows "Ralink: Unknown device 0302". Dapper already has the required driver rt61, but needs some manual configuration. Refer to this forum post

2006-10-08

DWL-G650

Atheros AR5212

Madwifi

Yes

Yes

Yes

Running with feisty;Installation with WEP-WLAN was no Problem;wifi0 has strange MAC-Address;ath0 used

2007-06-22

WDA-2320

Atheros AR5212

Madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Worked out of the box in 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04. Had the Restricted Drivers Manager info box for Atheros. WPA worked automatically in 7.10 and 8.04.

2007-09-16

DWL-510 (A1)

Realtek 8180L

Realtek with ndiswrapper

?

?

No

Works with Relatek binary drivers for Windows and ndiswrapper, but requires a small modification to the PCI ID in NET8180.INF. Refer to this page for more details. Note that at least with 2.6 kernel the orginal D-Link Windows driver that comes with the card has serious problems and may cause a system restart.

DWL-G510

Atheros

madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Revision B1 4.10 -- revision C2 should work if you download and compile the RT61 drivers for Linux from here but they are hard to compile.

WDA-1320

Atheros AR5005G

madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Works perfectly in Dapper and Edgy.

2006-11-06

DWA-510

RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B

rt61pci

unknown

yes

yes

(Intrepid 8.10) already had my home WLAN keys set up. card was detected on boot, and network connected with no action on my part

2009-01-17

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

DWA-652

N/A

XP net5416.inf

'dunno what that means

Yes

No

Downloaded Win2K/XP drivers from D-Link, used ndiswrapper. Works great, but limited to 54Mbps. Does NOT support N speeds

2008-10-25

DWL-G630 hw Ver:C2 fw Ver:3.01

Atheros AR5005G

Madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Driver in linux-restricted-modules. Native support in Edgy.

21-Jan-2007

DWL-G630 hw Ver:E1 fw Ver:5.0

Ralink

RT61 / Ralink provided

No

No

No

Revision E1 has changed chipset from rev. D. Chipset manufacturer has driver source here. (Look for "RT61", D-Link product name is not mentioned). Driver sources are GPL, but attached firmware files apparently carry no explicit license.

04-Jan-2006

DWL-G630 hw Ver:E2 fw Ver:5.0

Ralink

RalinkRT61

?

Yes

Yes

The card is working for me on HARDY. It used rt61pci kernel module. Worked by plugging it in and then installing Xubuntu. "Act" light blinks properly, but "Link" light does not. (Chipset manufacturer has driver source here)

2008-06-07

DWL-610

Realtek RTL8180

?

?

Yes

?

On 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake): automatically detected, it works fine without encryption and WEP open key, but doesn't work with WEP shared key.

2008-03-31

DWL-G650+

?

acx100

No

No

No

Work quite well with latest driver from Davis Vlasenko. (0.3.10 work well, but some earlier version may work also).

2005-09-22

WNA-1330

Atheros AR5212

Madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Just had to configure my wi-fi connection and WEP and was off and running. No glitches detected...just had the Restricted Drivers Manager info box.

2007-06-06

DWL-650 Rev P/P1

?

prism3/hostap_cs

No

No

No

The device ID was removed from hostap_cs.c during the merge of those sources into the kernel, and for some reason is in orinoco_cs (likely because the DWL-650 works with orinoco_cs). People have been notified and a patch has been submitted. This card needs firmware loaded in order to work. Full details on getting this card working in Ubuntu are here and here

2007-04-18

DWL-G650 H/W Ver.:B5 F/W Ver.: 2.54

?

?

?

Yes

Yes

Automatically detected with Feisty; worked after config and reboot

2007-10-02

WNA-2330

Atheros AR5212 v: A1

Madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Worked immediately. No config necessary. Madwifi driver automatically recognized it and NetworkManager worked with no troubles. Believe this is a replacement for the dwl-g650

2006-07-23

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

DWL-520 E1

?

prism2

No

No

No

See here.

2005-04-25

DWL-G520

Atheros AR5212

Madwifi

Yes

Yes

Yes

DAPPER: Nearly works out-of-the-box, but had to add "wireless-rate 11M" to /etc/network/interfaces + reboot or two. BREEZY: Works out of the box with breezy. Works well, even with WEP. (Note: Some G520 may use acx100 instead.) HOARY: Rev. B of this card will not work out-of-the-box with Hoary--the madwifi drivers that shipped with Hoary are too old. An updated linux-restricted-modules* package is available here Note that this package is not officially supported. Some users have reported problems with WPA in the forums.

2005-12-16

DWL-520+

?

acx100

Yes

Yes

Yes

Just Works

DWL-G630

?

no (ndiswrapper)

??

Yes

Yes, though CD-installer doesn't recognize it

Works in Breezy (just configure it from the gnome network config tool), though it isn't recognized during installation. Works only via ndiswrapper in Warty and Hoary. (But check your hardware and firmware version against those below which succeeded. Maybe this is an old entry.)

DWL-650

?

orinoco_cs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatically detected, setup even asks for the WEP key

DWL-650+

?

acx100

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automatically detected, works with and without WEP. Did not test 22Mb/sec mode

DWL-G650

Atheros AR5212

Madwifi

??

Yes

Yes

Only Open-Key WEP with Netgear DG834G

DWL-G650

Atheros AR5212, Version C2, Firmware 3.1.6

Madwifi

Should work (Card is recognized and kernel drivers loaded, so connecting to a unsecure Open System A.P. while installing should work)

Yes

Yes

Open System Access Point and WEP work out of the box. For WPA-PSK I needed to install wpasupplicant (not included in Ubuntu before v6.06). I used the Debian Sid package without any problem. This card also works with ndiswrapper. I used a D-Link DI-624+ router to test it. (upgraded firmware of the router, not related to linux nor the wifi card, router rebooted itself even when connecting a windows machine with a ethernet cable, applied last firmware, now doing fine). Update: On Edgy recognized out of the box by Wireless LAN Manager including WEP. WPA works with Knetworkmanager. On Feisty, requires linux-restricted-modules. Works with Knetworkmanager on WPA. WEP not tested.

DWL-G650+

?

acx100

No

No

No

Does not work for me unless I recompile the pci_acx module with latest patches. After that it works. WEP not yet supported for acx111 cards. Added_note: I confirm this card does not work with a default Hoary install: despite the fact that it worked fine with my Hoary install from Array 5. Go figure. The fault seems to be related to an error in loading the firmware which is present in the hotplug firmware folder.

DWL-G650+

?

no (ndiswrapper)

No

Yes

No

Works with WEP. It is out-of-the box as much as ndiswrapper can be (manually install of win drivers). However, it shows 100% range all the time

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

DWA-110

?

ndiswrapper

?

Yes

Yes

Needs manual installation Instructions

2008-06-26

DWA-130

ndiswrapper

?

Yes

Yes

Download Windows XP driver from D-Link, install ndiswrapper and ndisgtk, add windows driver, should work after reboot

2007-09-02

DWA-142

netmw245 (marvell)

No

Yes

Yes

WinXP drivers avaliable at the D-Link Support Site. As of may/08, drivers are distributed in a executable file with no easy way to just extract the .sys and .inf files. Requires ndiswrapper. Should work after reboot, including WPA support.

2008-05-20

DWL-122

prism2_usb

Yes

Yes

Yes

See WifiDocs/Device/DWL-122

2008-06-11

DWL-650 P1

prism2_usb

No

No

No

See WifiDocs/Device/DWL-122

2006-03-04

DWL-G122/A2

prism

No

Yes

No

USB stick - works well in Breezy with ndiswrapper (the one provided in synaptic), with the drivers provided on the CD. Also works with Feisty but you need to blacklist prism54usb driver

2007-07-18

DWL-G122/B1

ralink

No

No

No

There are quite a different number of versions floating around, and this one is D-link DWL-G122 REV H/W ver B1 F/W 2.02. The usb id is 2001:3c00. The drivers are from the Ralink.

2005-11-25

DWL-G122/B1

ralink

No

No

No

Used the drivers specified above. Can connect to unencrypted wireless networks but with minimal stability, and cannot use WEP/WPA. Not recommended

2006-1-19

DWL-G122/B1

rt2500 / rt2570

Yes/No

Yes/No

No

Works well with WEP and WPA on Breezy & Dapper see WifiDocs/Device/DWL-G122_(Rev_B)

2006-03-25

DWL-G122/C1

rt73 / Ralink rt73

No

No

No

With the CVS GPL drivers open, WEP and WPA seems to be working. See WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73

2006-10-09

DWL-G122/C1

Ralink

rt73usb

Not tested

Yes

Yes

Works well with WEP and WPA on Hardy Heron (8.04) & Intrepid Ibex (8.10)

2008-11-11

DWL-G122/C1

Ralink

rt2x00

?

Yes

Yes

manufacturer drivers on http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html, see http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com for more information on chipset support

2008-07-02

DWL-G122/D1

Marvell chipset

No

No

No

Works with ndiswrapper. (device id is 07d1:3b01) Driver is in the manufacturer's website. Used WinXP driver

2006-11-05