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
802.11b WL-002 PCMCIA Prism2/2.5/3 hostap green driver: http://hostap.epitest.fi/
802.11b WL-003 USB Atmel atmelwlandriver green http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
802.11b WL-010 PCI Prism2/2.5/3 hostap green driver: http://hostap.epitest.fi/
802.11b WL-011 PCMCIA Atmel atmelwlandriver green http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
802.11b WL-011 ver.2 Cardbus AMD grey
802.11b WL-012 USB Prism2/2.5/3 linux-wlan-ng green website offers Linux driver; http://www.linux-wlan.org
802.11b WL-015 CF grey
802.11b WL-016 PCI grey
802.11g WL-100b Cardbus Broadcom Bcm43xx yellow in kernel tree
802.11g WL-100i Cardbus Prism GT Prism54 green Driver available at: http://prism54.org/
802.11g WL-110b PCI Broadcom Bcm43xx yellow in kernel tree
802.11g WL-112 Cardbus Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g WL-112 v.2 man:1814 dev:0301 Cardbus Ralink rt2x00 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g WL-113 man:0df6 dev:9071 USB Zydas ZD1211 green http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/
802.11g WL-113 v. 1.002 man: 0df6 dev: 9712 USB Ralink rt73 grey Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g WL-115 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 WL-120 Cardbus TI grey development: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
802.11g WL-121 PCI TI ACX111 green development: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
802.11b/g WL-140 v.2 Cardbus Intersil/Frisbee Prism54 grey Driver included in the mainline kernel since 2.6.24. Firmware is required , see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware
802.11g/n WL-150 Cardbus Ralink rt2600 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11n WL-151 PCI Ralink red
802.11g WL-170 v. 1 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
802.11g WL-171 PCI Ralink rt61 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g WL-172 USB Ralink rt73 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g/n WL-181 man: 1814 dev: 0601 PCI Ralink rt2860 green Driver available from manufacturer: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 , or http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
802.11g/n WL-349 man: 0df6 dev: 004b USB RealTek r8192s_usb green Driver included in the mainline kernel since 2.6.28. Firmware:rtl8192sfw.bin
802.11n WLA-2103 v.1 man: 0df6 dev: 0070 USB RealTek r8712u yellow usb id for this device seems to miss from the driver

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