Linux wireless LAN support; manufacturer



This list is arranged in several columns: Manufacturer, wireless lan type, product ID, Vendor and product code, host I/F, chipset, driver, works native with Linux and additional comments (depending on the search you did, one of the columns is the header).
Drivers are defined as Linux native drivers, so no Linuxant driverloader or Ndiswrapper.
For more info on specific chipset development, and which drivers are available for which cards (yes, there are more drivers available for some cards), checkout Jean Tourrilhes page. His page contains some outlines about the driver development, history, versions and maintainers.

Whether it's known to work with Linux, is defined with a colour code:


This list is a work in progress, it should give you an indication of what is supported, it is by no means guaranteed that it should work for you!
Please e-mail me your experience (remove the NOSPAM from the e-mail address).

How to report your wireless device.

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wlan type product ID vendor & product code host I/F chipset driver works with Linux comments
802.11n N10 man: 0b05 dev: 1786 USB RealTek rtl8192su green Supported by the rtl8192su and r8712u staging drivers in the mainline Linux kernel. Firmware from userspace is required .
802.11ac PCE-AC66 man: 14e4 dev: 43b1 PCI-E Broadcom red
802.11g PCI-G31 man: 1814 dev: 0301 PCI Ralink rt61 green Driver in mainline kernel as of 2.6.24. Requires firmware.
802.11a/g/n/ac USB-AC51 man: 0b05 dev: 17d1 USB Mediatek 7610u yellow https://github.com/Myria-de/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916
802.11ac USB-AC53 man: 0b05 dev: 17c9 USB Broadcom grey
802.11a/g/n/ac USB-AC53 Nano man: 0b05 dev: 184c USB Realtek RTL8812BU yellow https://github.com/drwilco/RTL8822BU or https://github.com/brandon-bailey/rtl8822bu
802.11ac USB-AC56 0b05 dev: 17d2 USB RealTek RTL8812AU green in kernel
802.11b WL-100 PCMCIA Prism2/2.5/3 hostap green driver: http://hostap.epitest.fi/
802.11g WL-100G man: 1043 dev: 100f Cardbus Broadcom Bcm43xx yellow in kernel tree
802.11g WL-100G Cardbus Broadcom Bcm43xx yellow in kernel tree
802.11b WL-103b man: 1043 dev: 0120 Cardbus Broadcom Bcm43xx yellow in kernel tree
802.11g WL-107g Cardbus Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11b WL-110 CF Prism2/2.5/3 hostap green driver: http://hostap.epitest.fi/
802.11g WL-130G man:10de dev:005d PCI Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11n WL-130N PCI Ralink rt2860 red
802.11b WL-130b dev: 0126 PCI Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g WL-138G PCI Marvell Libertas red driver not available
802.11g WL-138G v.2 man: 14e4 dev: 4318 PCI Broadcom Bcm43xx green in kernel tree
802.11b WL-140 USB Prism2/2.5/3 linux-wlan-ng green with 6 dBi omni ant.; http://www.linux-wlan.org
802.11g WL-160G USB grey
802.11g/n WL-160N man: 0b05 dev: 1723 USB Ralink rt2870 green Vendor driver included in the staging tree as of Linux kernel 2.6.29-rc1. Firmware from userspace required kernels as of 2.6.30.
802.11g WL-167G man:0b05 dev:1706 USB Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11b/g/n WL-167G rev. 3 man: 0b05 dev: 1791 USB RealTek r8712u yellow still under development
802.11g WL-167G v.2 man: 0b05 dev: 1723 USB Ralink rt73 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11a/b WL-200 Cardbus Atheros ath5k yellow in kernel

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