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.
Linux
Status
Driver capabilities
DragonFly BSD
FreeBSD
Status
Driver capabilities
NetBSD
OpenBSD The following is an incomplete list of supported wireless devices:
Status
Driver capabilities
Solaris and OpenSolaris
Darwin, OpenDarwin and macOS
Notes
References
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
External links 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