As of kernel 2.6.26 and later, a new driver has been incorporated named as ath5k. This driver, unlike the madwifi-ng driver which requires HAL and was previously proprietary is a HAL-free based driver. Most popular linux distributions would already have this driver included which should provide support for those using such chipsets and preferrably to try injection patches on this driver before reverting back to the madwifi-ng.
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Users whom use broadcom linux_sta driver (otherwise known as wl) should note that there are no monitor/injection modes with such driver. Broadcom deliberately removed the functionality out of their proprietary binary blob. Read here for more info: Also b43 supports less than a handful of chipsets, take note on which ones are unsupported and see if yours fall into that category: b43
Intel wireless cards are common devices found inside most laptops apart from Broadcom, Atheros, Ralink and Realtek. These devices has native linux support and generally do work well for most parts except for Intel's older chipsets such as ipw2200. 3945 owners are recommended to use iwl3945 as the older driver ipw3945 does not have monitor or injection capability and requires ipwraw-ng and is often not easy to work with ipwraw-ng. Owners of 4965 and later has support with iwlagn.
The legacy chipsets, namely Intersil Prism 2, Prism 2.5 and Prism 3 struggle in terms of support as the owners are slowly fading away. The drivers were split between the connecting interfaces on linux platform. Pre prismGT models had the hostap driver for most PCI/PCMCIA cards and wlan-ng for USB devices. These drivers are based on legacy stack and has two main drawbacks:
As for Intersil/Conexant PrismGT chipsets, the support for these on linux has been making a comeback. Initially the prism54 driver is only able to support fullMAC cards, the support for softMAC cards were all over the place such as the use of islsm. As of kernel 2.6.26, a new driver p54 has been incorporated with plans to merge both fullMAC and softMAC support of Intersil/Conexant PrismGT product range. The initial code was buggy but users with >=2.6.28 kernel will benefit regardless of which PrismGT they own.
I am planning to buy TP-LINK TL-WN822N v5, that comes with a different chipset than above mentioned v3. For Linux Mint this worked:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git dkms build-essentialgit clone -linux-driver.gitsudo dkms add ./rtl8192eu-linux-driversudo dkms install rtl8192eu/1.0 2ff7e9595c
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