Summary

Nearly gave up on this nic, Compex WLU11a. It works great on windows, but never worked with other Linux distros i tried, Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Knoppix. Great news, got my other USB nic DWL-120a to work, it uses the same driver the WLU11a uses, namely ATmel. Kanatox Linux will load the Atmel drivers and get you up and running in a hurry, no headaches. Currently i've tried Kanatox with kernel 2.6.9 Kanotix is based on Knoppix, but Kanotix did a great job autodetecting this USB nic. No where on the net have I found anyone to get this NIC running with Kernel 2.6 When I tried other kernels, I had serious lockup problems. With the help of linuxcompatible.org I've been fortunate enough to get my other devices running, and really have to thank the people who provide this service to the Linux commmunity. Hope this helps others who bought this NIC.

This product was acquired some time back and never quite worked out of the box until I tried it on a Ubuntu 5.x live CD. It has since consistently worked now even with Ubuntu 6.06 (both live and installed).

Sadly, I have not had success with it on FC5 nor 6 (which comes out Oct 24 06).

Hi! I've tested Compex WLU11A usb wifi card on Ubuntu 6.10 - installing properly, but after couple of minutes work, surfing internet etc. completly blocks system!

Hi! In Ubuntu 7.10 Wlu11a card working fine...about 1 hour, after that I need reset all system...