Often, users cannot quickly discern if they have a bad card, BIOS, or associated hardware faults, as opposed to software or setup problems.
This page lists Live bootable CDs known to work with MadWifi. You may be able to boot one of these to make a quick test of your hardware. NB: newer hardware may not be detected.
Again, please be aware that some of the Live CDs reported as working might only support older cards, and that not all chipsets are supported.
Please also note: there are No MIMO & No USB devices supported by MadWifi. None are likely to be supported any time soon.
Wifiway 1.0 Beta2
December 30, 2007
Voyage
January 13, 2007 'current iso'
Back Track
October 13, 2006
Kanotix
2006-01 RC4 Release
PCOS
P0.9.3.a-bigdaddy
Mepis
6.0 release
| Kernel: | 2.6.15-26
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| HAL: | 0.9.16.16
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| SVN: | July 10, 2006
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| URL: | http://www.mepis.org/node/1462..
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| CD/DVD | CD: 690 MB
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| Tested OK: | Thinkpad T42 w/ AR5006X Mini-PCI
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| Notes: | Debian based.
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Dream Linux
2.2 release
| Kernel: | 2.6.18.1-kanotix
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| HAL: | 0.9.17.2
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| SVN: | September 13, 2006 (r1710)
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| URL: | http://www.dreamlinux.com.br..
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| CD/DVD | CD: 701 MB
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| Tested OK: | Athlon XP2000 desktop with Netgear wgt311T
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| Notes: | Debian based. Very slick graphical tools.
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GRML Linux
grml 1.0, grml64 0.1, grml-small 0.4 release
| Kernel: | 2.6.20-grml(64)
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| HAL: | ?
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| SVN: | ?
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| URL: | http://www.grml.org/
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| CD/DVD | grml: 696.2M, grml64: 672.0M, grml-small: 60.1M
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| Tested OK: | Pentium 4 M laptop with Surecom Ep-9428-gp
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| Notes: | Works out of the box. Debian based. Linux Live-CD for sysadmins / texttool-users / geeks
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Other sources: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/, http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/debian.htm, http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html
If you want to add entries, feel free, but please follow the general format of the other entries. Further, madwifi support will likely only be familiar with a couple of these distros, so we may re-order the list to promote the ones best understood.
