The Puppy Working-Wireless-Cards Page
Most wireless cards are based on just a few different chipsets including Atheros, Broadcom, Intel, Ralink and Realtek.
| Below is a list of wireless cards that are known to work in Puppy. |
- Ashton Digital Air Dash WRCB- 1011R (802.11b), works with the r8180 driver (Realtek chip).
- Belkin F5D6001 PCI Adapter pci-id 1799:6001 ndiswrapper
- Belkin F5D6020 PCMCIA (32 bit CardBus) pci-id 1799:6020 ndiswrapper
- Belkin F5D6050 USB ver.2000 at76c503 & at76c503rfmd driver modules
- Belkin F5D7050 USB using ndiswrapper + rt2500usb driver
- Buffalo AirStation PCMCIA G54 (broadcom wli-cb-g54a) 1.0.4
- D-link DWL-G630 Ver:D1 F\W:4.00 using atheros iso
- D-link DWL-G510 Ver:C1 F\W:4.00 using atheros iso
- D-link DWL-610 PCMCIA using ndiswrapper
- D-link DWL-650+ PCMCIA adapter ndiswrapper + airplus driver files
- D-link DWL-650 PCMCIA adapter ndiswrapper + packaged drivers (driver must be bound to the pci-id found with lspci)
- D-link DWL-650 revP PCMCIA adapter works with linux-wlan-ng or hostap in Puppy 1.0x, works with hostap only in Puppy 2.x and card firmware must be loaded manually.
- D-link DWL-G122 with rt2500 works
- Ericsson HA691 (802.11b PCMCIA) works with the Atmel at76c50x module in Puppy 2.10.
- Fiberline FL-WL420X (Cardbus), Marvell chipset, using ndiswrapper, works stable with Mrv8000c.inf for XP from the install CD. Supports WEP and WPA (Puppy 2.01).
- Intel ProWireless 2200BG - downloaded ipw2200 linux driver from Intel site, put in / directory, renamed ipw2200-1.0.1 (leave off '.tar.gz so it won't archive)
- Linksys PCMCI Linksys WPC11 ver 3.0
- Micronet SP907BBV2 USB adapter at76c503 and at76c505-rfmd2958 modules (Puppy 1.0.4)
- MSI PC54G2 PCI adapter ndiswrapper + rt2500 driver files
- Netcomm NP7042 USB adapter at76c503 &at76c503rfmd modules
- Netgear WG511T only with great difficulty, using ndiswrapper; madwifi was not reliable. Search forum for "WG511T" for details.
- Netgear wg511u can be added to this list. ndiswrapper must be used as madwifi doesn't seem to work, i think the process is not a major issue once i figured out what to input and when. i used the wifi beta file till i learned how to make the netgear files work.
- Orinoco Classic Gold (proxim 2002 with antenna jack) SR02-1. autodetected 1.0.3
- Prism - Many Prism 2/2.5 based pcmcia cards autodetected by cardmgr (edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts for automagic config)
- Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro 6100 with built in wireless card).
- Toshiba laptop (Satellite A85-S107) using atheros iso, add 2 lines:iwconfig ath0 ....,dhcpcd ath0 to etc/rc.d/rc.local
- Dell D620 laptop. The builtin (Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) Chipset (ipw3945) works straight out of the box (Puppy 2.15CE)
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