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inline:Portal/IDB/logo_portal.png Welcome on ["Debian"] Wireless Fidelity

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.

A Wi-Fi interface is really an ["alias"] for an ["Ethernet"] interface that gives access to the configuration parameters peculiar to the Wi-Fi. These parameters are controlled using the ["iwconfig"] program.

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[http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html debian.org] - Debian Reference Networking Chapter

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Tools prerequisites

network-manager (module-assistant
wireless-tools , tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions

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

module name	Device name(s)	help page	non-free 1
airo		["airo"]	?
arlan		["arlan"]	?
ath_pci	Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC ?BR Netgear WG311T	[:DebFrWifi/ath_pci:ath_pci](fr)	?
atmel		["atmel"]	?
atmel_pci		["atmel_pci"]	?
bcm43xx		["bcm43xx"]	?
hermes		["hermes"]	?
hostap		["hostap"]	?
hostap_pci		["hostap_pci"]	?
hostap_plx		["hostap_plx"]	?
ipw2100	Intel Pro wireless 2100	["ipw2100"]	?
ipw2200	Intel Pro wireless 2200 ?BRIntel Pro wireless 2915	["ipw2200"]
ipw3945	Intel Pro wireless	["ipw3945"]
iwl3945 ?BR iwl4965	Intel Pro wireless 3945 ?BR Intel wireless 4965	["iwlwifi"]
orinoco		["orinoco"]
orinoco_nortel		["orinoco"]	?
orinoco_pci		["orinoco"]	?
orinoco_plx		["orinoco"]	?
orinoco_tmd		["orinoco"]	?
rt2500	?RaLink RT2500	[:DebFrWiFi/rt2500:rt2500]	?
strip		["strip"]	?
wavelan		["wavelan"]	?

legend: requires non-free stuff (proprietary software, etc). doesn't requires no proprietary stuffs.

USB Cards

This information is derived from command:

lsusb

See ["HowToIdentifyADevice/USB"] for more information

module name	Device name(s)	help page	non-free 1
??	Netgear MA111
usb8xxx		["libertas/usb8xxx"]	?
rtl8187		["rtl8187"]	?
zd1201		["zd1201"]	?
zd1211rw		["zd1211rw"]	?

PCMCIA Cards

See ["HowToIdentifyADevice/PCMCIA"] for more information

module name	Device name(s)	help page	non-free 1
airo_cs		[:airo#cs:airo_cs]	?
atmel_cs		["atmel_cs"]	?
hostap_cs		["hostap_cs"]	?
netwave_cs		["netwave_cs"]	?
orinoco_cs	Compac WL110	["orinoco"]	?
ray_cs		["ray_cs"]	?
spectrum_cs		["spectrum/cs"]	?
wavelan_cs		["wavelan/cs"]	?
wl3501_cs		["wl3501/cs"]	?
prism54	Prism GT ?BR Netgear WG511 ?BR D-Links DWL-g650	[:DebFrWifi/prism54:prism54]	?

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)
["iproute"].
["iwconfig"]
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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-=== Intel PRO/Wireless ===
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 * [:iwlwifi:Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection] [8086:4227] 
 * [:iwlwifi:Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection] [8086:4229] 
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=== Netgear MA311 ===
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-=== Netgear WG311T ===
[:DebFrWifi/ath_pci:Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)] [168c:0013] ''(in french)''
+|| module name	|| Device name(s)|| help page || non-free ^^1^^||
||airo		||	||["airo"]	|| ?	||
||arlan		||	||["arlan"]	|| ?	||
||ath_pci		|| Atheros  AR5212 802.11abg NIC [[BR]] Netgear WG311T ||[:DebFrWifi/ath_pci:ath_pci](fr)	|| ?	||
||atmel		||	||["atmel"]	|| ?	||
||atmel_pci	||	||["atmel_pci"]	|| ?	||
||bcm43xx	||	||["bcm43xx"]	|| ?	||
||hermes	||	||["hermes"]	|| ?	||
||hostap	||	||["hostap"]	|| ?	||
||hostap_pci	||	||["hostap_pci"]	|| ?	||
||hostap_plx	||	||["hostap_plx"]	|| ?	||
||ipw2100	|| Intel Pro wireless 2100	||["ipw2100"]	|| ?	||
||ipw2200	|| Intel Pro wireless 2200 [[BR]]Intel Pro wireless 2915	||["ipw2200"]	|| {X}	||
||ipw3945	|| Intel Pro wireless	||["ipw3945"]	|| {X}	||
||iwl3945 [[BR]] iwl4965 || Intel Pro wireless 3945	[[BR]] Intel wireless 4965	|| ["iwlwifi"]	|| {X}	||
||orinoco	||	||["orinoco"]	|| :-)	||
||orinoco_nortel||	||["orinoco"]	|| ?	||
||orinoco_pci	||	||["orinoco"]	|| ?	||
||orinoco_plx	||	||["orinoco"]	|| ?	||
||orinoco_tmd	||	||["orinoco"]	|| ?	||
||rt2500	|| RaLink RT2500	||[:DebFrWiFi/rt2500:rt2500]	|| ?	||
||strip		||	||["strip"]	|| ?	||
||wavelan	||	||["wavelan"]	|| ?	||
legend: {X} requires non-free stuff (proprietary software, etc). (./) doesn't requires no proprietary stuffs.
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-=== 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]
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-=== Netgear MA111 ===
+|| module name	|| Device name(s)|| help page || non-free ^^1^^||
|| ??	||  Netgear MA111 ||  || ||
||usb8xxx	||	||["libertas/usb8xxx"]	|| ?	||
||rtl8187	||	||["rtl8187"]	|| ?	||
||zd1201	||	||["zd1201"]	|| ?	||
||zd1211rw	||	||["zd1211rw"]	|| ?	||
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-=== Compaq WL110 ===
[:DebFrWifi/orinoco:orinoco] ''(in french)''
+|| module name	|| Device name(s)|| help page || non-free ^^1^^||
||airo_cs	||	||[:airo#cs:airo_cs]	|| ?	||
||atmel_cs	||	||["atmel_cs"]	|| ?	||
||hostap_cs	||	||["hostap_cs"]	|| ?	||
||netwave_cs	||	||["netwave_cs"]	|| ?	||
||orinoco_cs	|| Compac WL110	||["orinoco"]	|| ?	||
||ray_cs	||	||["ray_cs"]	|| ?	||
||spectrum_cs	||	||["spectrum/cs"]	|| ?	||
||wavelan_cs	||	||["wavelan/cs"]	|| ?	||
||wl3501_cs	||	||["wl3501/cs"]	|| ?	||
||prism54	|| Prism GT [[BR]] Netgear WG511 [[BR]] D-Links DWL-g650 	||[:DebFrWifi/prism54:prism54]	|| ?	||
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-=== Netgear MA401 ===

=== SMC 2835W ===
[:DebFrWifi/prism54:Orinoco or Intersil Prism 2 Wireless] [0156:0002] ''(in french)''
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  * Configuring multiple setups and switching between them can be done with DebPkg: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 DebPkg:network-manager instead. Others think the future is DebPkg:netconf

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