This page is currently undergoing a reformatting and you are welcome to help out. As you can see, the cards are being reorganized by Manufacturer and the links to the card types are being served up on this page. As the cards are added to their Manufacturer's Page, they are getting removed from this page.

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Wireless Network Interfaces

Wireless Network Interfaces

Please put in exact model numbers where possible.

To determine what wireless card/chipset you have, open up a terminal and type the following.

lspci -v | less

Then, scroll to find your wireless device and note down its details. For USB devices, type lsusb instead.

Wireless support varies with architecture. For example, ndiswrapper will work on the x86 architechture. A list of card that work with ndiswrapper is available here.

If you are going wireless card shopping, please look at this searchable list of cards which are supported under Linux at http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ . Make sure you buy wireless cards supported fully under Linux. It is worth noting that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) recommends the Ralink 2500/RT2400 and Realtek RTL8180 chipsets. A recent (December 20, 2006) article also mentions Ralink and Realtek as open-source friendly Wifi vendors, as well as Atmel.

If you find that your device is supported by a driver included with Ubuntu, but the driver is not loaded automatically, please see ReportingBugs to file a bug with Ubuntu! These are easy to fix.

Other Ubuntu wiki pages on Wireless Networking:

Central page for Wifi info
WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide (work in progress)

By Manufacturer

The Community has created articles for the following Manufacturers:

Manufacturer	Card Type
3Com		PCMCIA	PCI	PCI Low Profile	USB
Accton			PCI
Adaptec		PCMCIA
Airlink101		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Aria Extreme
Asus		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Atlantis Land			PCI
Belkin	EXPRESSCARD 34	PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Blitzz
Broadcom	miniPCI
Buffalo		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Cable & Wireless
Cisco
Cnet		PCMCIA	PCI
CompUSA/Realtek
Conceptronic
Dell	miniPCI		Unknown		USB
Dexlan
D-Link		PCMCIA	PCI	Unknown	USB
Edimax		PCMCIA	PCI	Unknown	USB
eHome
Encore
Gigabyte Technology
Hawking	Cardbus	PCMCIA			USB
HP
Intel
KCorp
Level One
Linksys		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Longshine
Motorola
MSI
Netcomm
Netgear		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Proxim/Orinoco
RealTek
Sitecom
SMC
Sweex		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Topcom
Toshiba
Trendnet		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Trust
US Robotics		PCMCIA			USB
Zonet		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Zyxel		PCMCIA	PCI		USB
Various

Wireless USB Adapters

Discontinued - Update directly on the maker page

Make	Model	Chipset/ Driver	Supports network install?	Supported in installed system?	Works "out of the box"	Comments	Last Updated	Type
A-Link	WLAN54MB	zd1211	Yes?	Yes	Yes	Seems to work fine on Breezy	2005-11-14	USB
A-Link	WLAN54USB-A	zd1211rw	No idea	Yes	Yes?	Works on Feisty, but had to manually run dhcpclient	2007-10-11	USB
ADDON	ADD-GWU180	zd1211	?	Yes	Yes	Works fine on Dapper RC1	2006-05-28	USB
Aptiva	Wireless G USB Adapter	Belkin/zd1211	?	Yes	Yes	Just works on Feisty, Gutsy(had to disable Ipv6 on Gutsy)	2007-12-16	USB
AVM GmbH	Fritz!WLAN USB Stick	TNETW1450 / fwlanusb	No	No	No	See WifiDocs/Device/Fritz!WLAN_USB_Stick for details, works with Breezy & Dapper	2006-03-25	USB
Compaq	W200	orinoco_usb	No	No	No	Following WifiDocs/Device/CompaqW200 WEP works, not tried WPA	2005-01-25	USB
Conceptronic	C54RU	rt73	No	No	No	WPA/TKIP works with opensource drvier feisty. WPA2 is supported by this driver but not tested. Follow the instructions at the bottom of this guide WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73.	2007-08-27	USB
Digicom	USB Wave 54	zd1211rw	?	Yes	Yes	Works without problems in Feisty configured with network-manager and using WEP. Not tested with WPA but SHOULD work fine (2007-06-23). Xubuntu 8.04 this USB radio works for open networks and WPA_PSK using default Network Manager (did not test WEP).	2008-05-31	USB
myessentials	ME1001-USB	ID 050d:705c Belkin Components zd1211rw	na	yes	yes in gutsy beta	na	2007-8-29	USB
Netcore	331gu	ndiswrapper	?	Yes	No	Stable in Gutsy without Network Manager.	2008-02-22	USB
NovaTech	902w	RAlink rt2570	No	No	No	VendorID not included BUG	2006-10-29	USB
Orient	XG-701A	zd1211	?	Yes	Yes	Works out of the box with WPA on Feisty using network-manager	2007-04-23	USB
PheeNet	WLU-703Z	zd1211	?	Yes	Yes	Works out of the box on Edgy using network-manager	2007-01-15	USB
Sierra	881U	MSM 7200	No	Yes	No	The shipped driver with Gutsy is outdated. Use these instructions: http://www.sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=1077	2008-03-02	USB
Veho	11g USB adapter	ZyDAS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes works out of the box. Plug and play including WPA support!	2007-12-04	USB
Westell	A90-211WG	ndiswrapper + wlusb20/PRISMA02	?	Yes	No	Works perfectly with ndiswrapper and wlusb20.inf on installation CD.	2007-07-17	USB
Various (SMC, Belkin...)	Various USB devices	Atmel AT76C503A	?	Yes	Yes	Plug it and go the the network administration to enable it. Nothing more, it works fairly well	2005-09-27	USB
My Essentials	Various USB devices	Belkin	?	Yes	Yes	Just works: Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy. Plug in and automatically recognised by network manager.	2008-06-29	USB

Note: Have a look at this page, my new version of this on with a cleaner layout: WifiDocs/WirelessCardsByVersion

By Card

Please take a moment and add your card to the wiki if there isn't a page on that device yet. Its very simple, follow format of template but don't put too much worry here in following a guideline. It will be cleaned up if needed. It's more important to document your experience for others. To create a page, simply enter the model # and version in the box ex.. dwl-g650vB5 and then click on the Create Device Page button. If there is a page on your device already, open up and add your comments/experience to the existing page.

A list of supported cards can be found in the chart above

CategoryHardware CategoryNetworking CategoryDocumentation

Ubuntu Documentation

WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

Wireless Network Interfaces

By Manufacturer

Wireless USB Adapters

By Card