WirelessChipsets
On this page, we want to collect information about the status of specific WLAN chipsets, NOT the devices. Linux drivers are nearly always generic drivers, so different devices with the same hardware are driven by the same driver; normally the system doesn't even know about the vendor of the device. In addition WLAN devices tend to change the real hardware in them very often and without any information to the users.
PCI, PC-Card/32 Bit PCMCIA
Chipset Vendor |
Chipset name (as from lspci, maybe shortened) |
Status on Ubuntu 5.10 "breezy badger" |
Status on Ubuntu 6.06 "dapper drake" |
date |
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problems on basic WLAN functionality (1) |
interface name |
problems on basic WLAN functionality (1) |
WPA (2) |
ways to get network-manager to fail (3) |
interface name |
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Atheros |
AR5212 |
none |
ath* |
none |
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ath* |
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Atheros |
Super-G |
none |
ath* |
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none |
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ath* |
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Broadcom |
BCM4306 |
ndiswrapper; no monitoring, no link quality information |
wlan* |
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2006-03-29 |
Broadcom |
BCM4318 |
wlan* |
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eth0 |
2006-04-26 |
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intel |
ipw2100 |
none |
eth* |
none |
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Ad-Hoc + WEP |
eth* |
2006-03-29 |
intel |
ipw2200 |
none |
eth* |
none |
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eth* |
2006-03-29 |
Intersil |
Prism |
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Intersil |
Prism 54 |
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Intersil |
Prism GT |
none |
wlan* |
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Intersil |
Prism 2 |
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Intersil |
Prism 2.5 |
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Intersil |
Prism 3 |
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Marvell |
(Libertas 802.11b/g Wireless SoftAP) |
ndiswrapper >= 1.13 (???); ndiswrapper in breezy too old1 |
wlan* |
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2006-04-22 |
RT2400 |
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ra* |
n |
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ra* |
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RT2500 |
very unstable, no mode=Master |
ra* |
no mode=Master |
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ra* |
2006-03-29 |
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RT2570 |
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ra* |
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ra* |
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TI |
ACX 100 |
none |
wlan* |
none |
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wlan* |
2006-03-29 |
TI |
ACX 111 |
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USB
Chipset Vendor |
Chipset name (as from lsusb (4)) |
Status on Ubuntu 5.10 "breezy badger" |
Status on Ubuntu 6.06 "dapper drake" |
date |
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problems on basic WLAN functionality(1) |
interface name |
problems on basic WLAN functionality (1) |
WPA (2) |
ways to get network-manager to fail (3) |
interface name |
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Atheros |
ID 1385:4251 (AR5005UG) |
ndiswrapper >= 1.7 2 |
wlan* |
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2006-04-22 |
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1) just write "none", if you do not need to install any driver or change configuration files (maybe except /etc/network/interfaces manually.
2) needs wpasupplicant. This is NOT supported on breezy (but might work, as an unconfigured version of wpasupplicant exists in universe).
3) just write "none", as long, as you can't get network-manager to fail on it.
4) it is VERY important to add the IDs here. So a valid entry looks like "ID 046d:c308 Logitech, Inc. Internet Navigator Keyboard" (that example is not a WLAN device 
or only "ID 058f:6362" if lsusb doesn't have strings.
Luc Saillard is working on a [http://www.saillard.org/linux/mrv8k/ native Linux driver] for the Marvell Libertas chipset. He made some [http://www.saillard.org/news/2005-10-04_libertas.php progress] some time ago. (1)
Atheros' USB-chipsets are [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/5372 quite different] from the PCI ones: Support [http://www.madwifi.org/ticket/33 planned for MadWifi 2.0], which is far away. (2)
WirelessChipsets (last edited 2008-08-06 16:34:56 by localhost)