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inline:Portal/IDB/icon-wifi-32x32.png This portal deals with the hardware installation of Wi-Fi cards in general. The installation of a card is essentially two steps that are installing the driver (also called the driver or module), and setting up your WiFi network.

Be aware that a WiFi base are operating on an electronic chip called Chipset. We can find the same chip in several different cards. Consequently, the pilot manages this chipset will be the same for all these cards Wifi.

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Tools prerequisites

• module-assistant

• wireless-tools

Install Driver

This section presents a list of WiFi cards sorted by manufacturer. It will show you the documentation page of the chip and thus its pilot. We recommend that you retrieve information identifying material.

This list consists of two elements: the device name and the hardware ID. The list is categorized alphabetically by the manufacturer's name and the name of your card.

PCI Cards

This information is derived from command:

lspci -nn

See ["HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI"] for more information

Netgear MA311

Netgear WG311T

[:DebFrWifi/ath_pci:Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)] [168c:0013] (in french)

Netgear WG511

[:DebFrWifi/prism54:prism54] [???:???] (in french)

RaLink RT2500

[:DebFrWiFi/rt2500:?RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)] [1814:0201] (in french)

SMC 2802W

[:DebFrWifi/prism54:Harris Semiconductor D-Links DWL-g650 A1 (rev 1)] [1260:3890] (in french) [http://www.smc-europe.com/images/content/products/wireless/2802W.jpg See]

USB Cards

This information is derived from command:

lsusb

See ["HowToIdentifyADevice/USB"] for more information

Netgear MA111

PCMCIA Cards

See ["HowToIdentifyADevice/PCMCIA"] for more information

Compaq WL110

[:DebFrWifi/orinoco:orinoco] (in french)

Netgear MA401

SMC 2835W

[:DebFrWifi/prism54:Orinoco or Intersil Prism 2 Wireless] [0156:0002] (in french)

Setting your WiFi device

Identify your network

• Network Name
  • Parameter security

  • [:DebFrWPA:WPA] (in french)

Configure Interface

Example:

# Carte PCI Wifi RT2500
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig eth0 up
pre-up iwpriv eth0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv eth0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwconfig eth0 essid "WANADOO-1418"
pre-up iwpriv eth0 set WPAPSK="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Check the proper functioning

Resources

• ?DebFrWifiTopo (in french)

• NdisWrapper - use Windows drivers under Debian/Linux.

• ["netconf"]

External Links

• Wi-fi definition

• network-manager - available for Gnome and KDE.

• http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/#howto The Linux Wireless ?HowTo.

• http://hostap.epitest.fi/

• http://www.linux-wlan.org

• http://stef.tvk.rwth-aachen.de/~nazgul/debian/DWL-650+_Howto.html D-Link DWL-650+ on Debian Linux Mini Howto

• http://www.questier.com/howto.html Linux installation of Wi-Fi card Proxim Orinoco Silver and Belkin ?F5D6020 ver.2 on kernel 2.4

• http://users.pandora.be/nespa/belkin/belkin.html Belkin ?F5D6020v2 on kernel 2.6

• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8354206794.html DVD over Wi-fi

• http://greenfly.org/fujitsu/#Tips%20and%20Tricks Linux on the Fujitsu P2110 has an example of using [file:///usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/pcmcia-compat.sh pcmcia-compat.sh] and [file:///etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces] to achieve the same end

• http://appaji.livejournal.com/42172.html Appaji shows how to use guessnet to switch between locations.

• Configuring multiple setups and switching between them can be done with ifscheme. You can see a worked example of this at [http://www.alwayssunny.com/blog/?cat=2 alwayssunny.com]. Some people think ifscheme is obsolete, and recommend network-manager instead. Others think the future is netconf

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