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Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/ 2225BG/ 2915ABG Integrated No [51] BSD: Damien Bergamini Reverse engineering Yes iwn: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/ 5000/ 1000/ 6000 Integrated No [52] BSD: Damien Bergamini Reverse engineering Yes iwm: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3160ac/ 7260ac/ 7265ac Integrated (since 5.8) No [53] BSD: Antti Kantee, [54] Stefan Sperling
Ralink RT2560F on a Wi-Fi Mini PCI Card Ralink RT63365E on a Wi-Fi router and access point from Huawei. Ralink Technology, Corp. is a Wi-Fi chipset manufacturer mainly known for their IEEE 802.11 (Wireless LAN) chipsets. Ralink was founded in 2001 in Cupertino, California, then moved its headquarters to Hsinchu, Taiwan.
The first SoftAP software was shipped by Ralink with their Wi-Fi cards for Windows XP. It enabled a Wi-Fi card to act as a wireless access point. While a card was acting as a wireless access point, it could not continue to stay connected as a client, so any Internet access had to come from another device, such as an Ethernet device.
Wireless tools for Linux is a collection of user-space utilities written for Linux kernel-based operating systems to support and facilitate the configuration of device drivers of wireless network interface controllers and some related aspects of networking using the Linux Wireless Extension.
A wireless configuration utility, [1] wireless configuration tool, [1] wireless LAN client, [citation needed] or wireless connection management utility [citation needed] is a class of network management software that manages the activities and features of a wireless network connection.
Open source Linux based networking operating system for bare metal switches. DD-WRT: Active: Linux distribution: MIPS, x86, ARM? Free or paid registration for x86: Embedded Linux firmware distribution available on a variety of wireless routers. Endian Firewall: Active: Linux distribution: x86-64? Free (PC) or hardware version
Notable custom-firmware projects for wireless routers.Many of these will run on various brands such as Linksys, Asus, Netgear, etc. OpenWrt – Customizable FOSS firmware written from scratch; features a combined SquashFS/JFFS2 file system and the package manager opkg [1] with over 3000 available packages (Linux/GPL); now merged with LEDE.
Jouni Malinen's hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It can be used to create a wireless hotspot using a Linux computer. [1] It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators, RADIUS client, EAP server, and RADIUS authentication server.