Penguin Wireless N PCIe Card /w Low Profile Bracket for GNU / Linux

Penguin Wireless N PCIe Card /w Low Profile Bracket for GNU / Linux
With the Penguin Wireless N PCIe card /W Low Profile Bracket 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 150Mbps

  • Connect to WEP and WPA networks

  • Support for most popular and libre (free) distributions

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

  • Support for hostapd

Get the right card for your computer: PCI vs PCI Express Guide. Pay attention in particular to the low profile section of this guide as this card includes only the low profile bracket and won't work with non-low profile systems.

Category Specification
Chipset Atheros AR9285
Standard IEEE 802.11b/g/n
Interface PCIe
Antenna One Omni Directional, Detachable
Type Low Profile
Security WEP, WPA, WPA2
Certifications CE, FCC, RoHS
Modes Supported Station Mode, AP Mode, IBSS Mode, Monitor Mode, Mesh point with HT support, as well as RSN, WDS (as of >= 2.6.37), Master Mode
Supported kernels Linux >= 2.6.27, although 2.6.32 or newer is recommended
Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista32/64/Windows 7 32/64


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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 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 11.4, 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
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.

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