Wireless card compatibility list
This is very much a work in progress. Unless noted, the "working or not" designations are "out of the box".
Probably the best thing is to go to WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported on Ubuntu's site.
PCI Cards
| CARD | UBUNTU | DEBIAN | CHIPSET | NOTE | ||||
| Netgear 108 Mbps Wireless PCI WG311T | Dapper yes | atheros | There are other cards in the WG311 series that use Texas Instrument chips and do not work. | |||||
| D-Link AirPlus DWL-520+ | Hardy yes Needs |
ACX 100 | ||||||
| D-Link Air DWL-520 | Hardy No | Prism 2.5 | ||||||
| Linksys WMP54G | Hardy No | |||||||
| D-Link WDA-1320 | Hardy yes | |||||||
| SMC EZConnect Wireless SMC2602W | Dapper yes | this is a PCMCIA card in a PCI card holder |
PCMCIA and CardBus Cards
| CARD | UBUNTU | DEBIAN | CHIPSET | NOTES |
| Netgear Wireless PC Crad 32-bit Cardbus MA521 | Dapper yes | no | Realtek RTL8180L | |
| D-Link DWL-650 11 Mbps WLAN Card | Dapper yes | yes | Intersil Prism | there are other cards in the DWL-650 series with ADM8211 chips http://seattlewireless.net/DlinkCardComments |
USB sticks
Asus USB-N13 Wireless-N Adapter: advertises itself as having Linux Support on the box but see its wiki page.