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
802.11g EW-7101PCG Cardbus Prism GT Prism54 green Driver available at: http://prism54.org/
802.11b EW-7104pc PCMCIA Atmel atmelwlandriver grey operates on 3.3V; http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
802.11b EW-7105PC PCMCIA Atmel atmelwlandriver green http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
802.11b EW-7105PC+ Cardbus TI grey development: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
802.11b EW-7106PC Cardbus Realtek rtl8180 yellow driver: http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ or http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
802.11g EW-7108PCG man:1814 dev:0201 Cardbus Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g EW-7108PCG man: 1814 dev: 0301 Cardbus Ralink rt61 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11b EW-7115U USB Atmel atmelwlandriver green http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
802.11b EW-7117U mini-USB Zydas zd1201 yellow http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net
802.11b EW-7125+ PCI TI grey development: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
802.11b EW-7126 PCI Realtek rtl8180 yellow driver: http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ or http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
802.11g EW-7128G man: 1814 dev: 0201 PCI Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g EW-7317Ug man:0ACE dev:1211 USB Zydas zd1211 green http://zd1211.ath.cx/
802.11b/g EW-7318USg man: 7392 dev: 7318 USB Ralink rt73 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , in kernel since 2.6.29; firmware required
802.11g EW-7318Ug man: 148f dev: 2573 USB Ralink rt73 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g EW-7325IG man:168c dev:0013 PCI Atheros Mad WiFi green driver available at: http://madwifi-project.org
802.11g EW-7710UAN man: 7392 dev: 7711 USB Ralink rt3070sta green http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 get this one: RT3070USB(RT307x). Should be in kernel since 2.6.30 (2.6.31 loads rt2800usb)
802.11g WL-PCIG/T PCI TI grey 256-bit WEP; development: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/

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