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Summary

PCMCIA

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

MA401(RA)

orinoco or hostap

?

?

Yes

No

Be careful, this card is not the same as the Netgear MA401 (without RA) which uses the prism driver. The MA401RA use the orinoco or the hostap drivers. To avoid a complete freeze of the system when the card is inserted, you may have to include a line "exclude=irq3" in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. Once done, everything works well. In Dapper, if you want to use (k)networkmanager, you may want to use the hostap driver instead of the orinoco one. See this thread.

2006-05-03

MA401(RA) Eval-RevA

orinoco or hostap

orinoco

?

Yes

No

Works with orinoco_cs, but works better with hostap_cs (ie network manager works. See this thread for details). Make sure to add to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts 'exclude irq 3', 'exclude irq 4', and 'exclude irq 7'.

07-28-2007

MA401(RA) Rev.A

?

orinoco

?

Yes

No

Didn't work with orinoco_cs driver, changed to hostap_cs and works fine now.

02-06-2007

MA401(RA) Rev.D

?

orinoco

?

Yes

No

The card will be recognized by the system and all seems ok, but there is no chance to get an IP address via DHCP or any other network communication (no matter witho or without encryption). There is no label on the card that it is MA401RA, but the system says it is one. It can't be the same card as described above, because hostap doesn't work at all. Accesspoint used is Trendnet TEW-310APB; card is used in a Laptop Asus A1000

2007-03-01

MA401

?

?

?

Yes

Yes?

Didn't seem to work at first did: apt-get install pcmcia-cs wireless-tools dhcpcd but said no to removing ubuntu packages and then it worked?

MA521

Realtek

no (ndiswrapper)

?

Yes

Yes

Works with ndiswrapper in hoary. Briefly worked in breezy; a few problems. Used successfully in Dapper with native driver (configured in the standard Dapper kernel) and WPA 1.

2009-04-10

WG511T

Atheros Super-G AR5212

madwifi

Yes

Yes

Yes

Works perfect in Edgy Eft. Has been reported to work out of the box in older versions, but a large number of users have had problems, especially in Hoary and older. See this HowTo for further details. Works in Gutsy Gibbon with WPA.

2007-1-21

WG511T

Atheros Super-G AR5212

madwifi

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plugged it into my old HP Omnibook XE3, booted up Feisty (7.04) and it worked.

2007-5-12

WG511

Prism

?

Yes

Yes

Yes

v1 Taiwan works out of the box with Hoary, Breezy. and Edgy. Also works with Feisty

2007-05-09

WG511 v2

Prism

no (ndiswrapper)

?

No

No

howto "Made in China" version. Must use ndiswrapper and a few tweaks - Substitute the v3 drivers in the howto for the Win2000 drivers off the netgear cd.

2006-02-13

WG511 v2

Marvell

no (ndiswrapper)

?

No

No

"Made in China" version. Using synaptic package Manager install ndisgtk, ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper utils,wireless tools, then go to System > Administration > Windows wireless drivers, add driver using XP driver off the netgear cd.

2009-02-4

WG511 v3

Prism

no (ndiswrapper)

?

Yes

No

howto "Made in China" version. Must use ndiswrapper and a few tweaks.

2005-10-15

WPN511

Atheros AR5212

madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

Works with Hardy. Install Madwifi, plug in the card and use Network Manager to set-up the network connection.

2008-07-14

PCI

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

MA311 (PCI)

Prism 2.5

?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Detected as eth0 and started working after modules.conf was edited (wlan0 to eth0)

MA521

Realtek 8180

no (ndiswrapper)

?

No

No

2005-11-30

WAG311

Atheros AR5212 (a/b/g)

madwifi

Yes

Yes

Yes

card natively recognized under Feisty (7.04)

2007-08-28

WG311v2

Texas Instruments ACX 111

?

?

Yes

Yes

Worked out of the box with Breezy. WEP now works 100%!

WG311v2

Texas Instruments ACX 111

acx

?

Yes

No

Did not work with Jaunty. Not compatible with NetworkManager. See http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Ubuntu

WG311v3

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

No (ndiswrapper)

?

Yes

No

(Hardy) Worked after installing ndiswrapper and a Windows driver. WPA not supported. Follow instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3

WG311T

Atheros AR5212

madwifi

No

Yes

Yes

Detected in Network Settings as ath0 and started working once the WAP details were input. Version WG311TGE (sold as WG311T) works out of the box on Dapper 6.06. Same for WGT311TFS in Edgy; used for WEP and/or WPA. Also works out of the box on Feisty with NetworkManager.

2007-07-30

WPN311

Atheros 5212

madwifi

?

Yes

Yes

(Intrepid) Detected as ath0, network manager configures it fine

2009-04-22

USB

Model

Chipset

Driver

Supports network install?

Supported in installed system?

Works "out of the box"

Comments

Last Updated

MA101 Rev B

ATMEL AT76C5XXx

?

?

Yes

Yes

Does not like WPA

2007-05-11

MA111v1

prism2_usb

Yes

Yes

Yes

See WifiDocs/Device/NetgearMA111 Works also with ndiswrapper and netma111.inf driver.

2005-10-09

MA111v2

ndiswrapper + ma111v2.inf

?

Yes

No

Works with ndiswrapper and ma111v2.inf file from netgear site's xp driver - tested on Xubuntu

2007-02-10

MA111v2

Prism

ndiswrapper

?

No

No

Driver files from http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MA111v2.asp

WG111v1

ndiswrapper + netwg111.inf

No

No

No

Works with ndiswrapper and the CDROM provided by netgear. See WifiDocs/Device/NetgearWG111

2005-09-09

WG111v2

Realtek 8187

?

?

Yes (Feisty/Hardy)

Yes

Works out of the box with Feisty(No WEP) and Hardy(with WEP)

2008-08-02

WG111v2

Realtek 8187

rtl8187

?

Yes (Feisty/Hardy)

Yes, with caveats

Using either ndiswrapper + netgw111 or native rtl8187 drive, performance was terrible as an interface or under Kismet. Saw 1-3 networks vs 15 using built-in atheros. Test run on two hw samples.

2008-08-19

WG111v2

rtl8187

?

Yes

Yes

Works out of the box with Jaunty.

2009-09-25

WG111v3

rtl8187B

?

?

Yes

Yes

Worked immediately in Intrepid AMD64 with WPA2

2009-03-12

WG111v3

?

rtl8187

?

Yes (with caveats)

Yes (with caveats)

Worked immediately in Jaunty AMD64. However, file transfers are limited to ~ 200 kilobytes / sec (2mbit). Worse, while this card is (slowly) downloading, ping times to the local router are on the order of 4-8 seconds for all of the wifi devices on the local network. Router is Linksys WRT54GL; this is the only device (of many) that I've seen this problem with. Reports strong signal strength even while dropping packets.

2009-04-28

WG111T

ndiswrapper + netwg11t.inf

No

No

No

Works (on 7.10) with ndiswrapper and 2.1 drivers from website. You may have remove/reinsert stick and remove/add module to get it to work after reboot. WPA works.

2008-02-04

WG111T

Realtek 8187

?

?

Yes (Hardy)

No

Works great, WEP and all, but you need to read the HowTo first. read this for more info.

2008-03-21

WG121

Prism GT / ndiswrapper + netwg121.inf

?

Yes

No

Follow the guide located here to get this card to work with Edgy.

2006-11-14

WN111

ndiswrapper + netmw245.inf

netmw245.inf

Yes

No

Follow the sticky on Ubuntu on how to setup ndiswrapper.

Works with WPA/WPA2 personal

2008-12-03

WN111 v2

Atheros ar9170

ar9170

?

Karmic, 2.6.31 kernel

need firmware file downloads

Download and install firmware files from here. Presently B/G speeds not N

2009-07-15

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