Comparison of open-source wireless drivers

Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards.

The following is an incomplete list of supported wireless devices:

• http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/sb/CS-006408.htm Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
• The SourceForge IPW websites (ipw 2100,ipw2200 and ipw3945)
• The FSF website for the Ralink and Realtek cards
• Kerneltrap for the list of OpenBSD drivers
• The OpenSolaris website for the list of OpenSolaris and Solaris drivers
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014705/http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2084
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060908050351/http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Rt2x00_beta
• http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html Archived 2022-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
• rt2x00 README from cvs
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/9/323

• Seattle Wireless Linux drivers
• Seattle Wireless Mac OS drivers
• wireless.kernel.org Wiki
• Current Stable Linux kernel: Wireless
• Open Documentation for Hardware, a 2006 presentation by Theo de Raadt