(Transferred from the wiki by Peter)


1. Is your card on the madwifi acl? Linkage : madwifi acl
Partial Listing:
Code:
Netgear -- WAG11 / WG311 / WG311T / WG511T / WPN511
Linksys -- WPC55AG
HP -- WLAN W500 (a/b/g) / WLAN W400 (b/g)
D-Link -- AirPlus DWL-650+ / DWL-G650 / DWL-AG650 / DWL-AG520
DWL-G520 / DWL-AG530 / DWL-G630 / DWL-G510
you can also search on the site by chipset

2. How you do get the madwifi module? Linkage: module or Direct Linkage: http://madwifi.otaku42.de/madwifi-cvs-current.tar.gz



3. But what do I do WHAT DO I DO with the downloaded file?
Code:
gunzip
tar -xvzf madwifi-cvs-current.tar.gz
or
Code:
tar -xvjf madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2
depending on which file you've downloaded (thanks Stuart)
Code:
cd madwifi-cvs-current
make
(if you get an error stating that youre missing "uudecode", then download and install sharutils)
Code:
make install (as root)