Penguin Wireless N PCIe Card for GNU / Linux v3

This card is discontinued. please check out one of our newer cards.

With the Penguin Wireless N PCIe card for GNU / Linux, connecting to the Internet is easy. Unscrew, insert, select your access point, and surf. Genuinely Penguin friendly with all recent Linux kernels supported.

• Experience video streaming and Internet calls with speeds up to 300Mbps


• Connect to WEP and WPA networks


• Support for most popular and libre (free) Linuxdistributions


• Not dependent on NDISWrapper, binary blobs, or proprietary drivers-firmware


• Support for hostapd

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Category	Specification
Chipset	Atheros
Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
Interface	PCIe x1, x2, x8, or x16
Antenna	Omni Directional, Detachable (RP-SMA)
Frequency	2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz
Version	3
Data Transfer Rate	Up to 300Mbps
Security	WEP, WPA, WPA2
Certifications	CE, FCC
Modes Supported	Station Mode, AP Mode, IBSS Mode, Monitor Mode, Mesh point, WDS (>= 2.6.37), Master Mode
Supported kernels	Linux >= 2.6.29, although 2.6.32 and newer recommended
Compatible with	Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7
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Partial List Of Supported Releases:

Trisquel 4.01, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.01, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, 15.10, 16.04, 16.10, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04, 19.10, 20.04, 20.10, 21.04, 21.10, 22.04, 22.10, 23.04, 23.10, 24.04
LinuxMint 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14.1, 15, 16, 17, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 18, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 20, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21, 21.1, 21.2, 21.2 Edge, 21.3, 21.3 Edge
Fedora 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6 ELS+
CentOS 6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10
OpenSuSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, Leap 42.1, 42.2, 42.3, 15.0, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
PCLinuxOS 2010, 2010.1, 2010.7, 2010.10, 2010.12, 2011.6, 2011.9, 2012.2, 2013.2, 2013.4, 2013.6, 2013.7, 2013.715, 2013.10, 2013.12, 2014.04, 2014.05, 2014.07, 2014.08, 2014.12, 2016.03, 2016.07, 2017.04, 2017.05, 2017.07, 2017.11, 2018.06, 2019.03, 2019.05, 2019.08, 2019.10, 2019.11, 2019.12, 2020.01, 2020.02, 2020.03, 2020.05, 2020.08, 2020.10, 2020.1015, 2021.0205, 2021.0215, 2021.08, 2021.11, 2022.01.10, 2022.04.10, 2022.04.20, 2022.07.10, 2022.11.20, 2022.11.30, 2022.12, 2023.05, 2023.07, 2023.08, 2024.04
Mandrivia 2010.1, 2010.2, 2011.0, discontinued
Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14, 14.1, 14.2, 15.0
Debian 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12


Almost all recently released distributions are compatible.