Wifi with GNU/Linux [25 mn of reading - published 5/10/2005 4:01:17 AM - Target : Confirmé]

Author

Charles-Henri CLEMENTE Student-Engineer Supinfo Caraïbes SUPINFO graduate year  2006    Write to the person    All projects of the same author    Mini-CV of the author

Summary

This article shows the various things to know to use wifi with Linux.

Sommaire

• Introduction
• 1 Supported chipsets
• 1.1 How to know the chipset of a wifi card
• 1.2 How to find and install the drivers
• 2 Chipsets with native linux support
• 3 For the cards with no Linux driver : Ndiswrapper
• 3.1 Ndiswrapper installation :
• 3.2 Installation of the windows driver with ndiswrapper :
• 4 Wifi softwares
• 4.1 Iwconfig
• 4.2 Automate network detection and connection
• 5 WPA encryption
• Conclusion