Anyone got TL-WN353GD PCI wireless adapter?

[jeisma]

hi!

anyone able to run/use TL-WN353GD pci wireless adapter? how? what distro? tp link provides only drivers for windows.


thanks!

j

[deathadder]

Hey,

I don't have any experience with this card, but a quick Google found this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46234 Which suggests you can use the rtl8187 module. If that's the case you can set-up your wireless as normal. See Google (http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=linux+wireless+configuration&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D) for links...

Alternatively you can use ndiswrapper (http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=setup+ndiswrapper&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D) which adds a wrapper to Windows drivers so you can use them within Linux.

Have you got any distro installed at the moment? If so we could give you some distro guidance (how to install packages that you need, or if you can skip steps like installing ndiswrapper since it's installed by default etc etc)

[jeisma]

hi!

i actually searched this forum and found that i can use ndiswrapper, but those posts were like a year ago so i thought, this wireless card must be supported now without work arounds.

im about to install centos, it's reassuring to know that it's possible for this to work. will post again if i run into trouble.

thanks a lot.

j