Network Adapter Hardware Compatibility List

This is a summary of reports from IPFire users about the network cards they use. It is very important to learn about network cards that don't work or only work with limitations (eg: only 54 Mbit). If you can not find any information about your network card on the wiki, please create a new post in the IPFire Community - Network category.

Note to all Users: please add your Network Adapter Hardware in the lists below. This Wiki page is updated by you. If you need assistance please ask in the IPFire Community - Network category.

• LAN Cards/Onboard Chips
• USB LAN Dongles
• PCI Express Mini WLAN Cards
• USB WLAN Adapters
• DSL Modems
• 3G/4G (UMTS/LTE) Modems
• Arm Onboard Chips

HowTo: Identify devices

Note: Wireless network cards are usually not shown during installation, but will be visible and can be configured as a WiFi Access Point after the first reboot.

• Open a shell on your IPFire system (either by using the console or using SSH)
• Run lspci | grep -ie network -ie ethernet -ie wireless
• Copy the hexadecimal identifier at the beginning of the line.
  • This is called the "PCI Domain" of the device and describes where a device is connected. A PCI Domain could look like 00:19.0 or 02:00.0 or 03:00.0.
• Then run lspci -nn -v -s <paste the PCI Domain from above>
• Note the hexadecimal Device ID on the end of the first line, after the name of the device.
  • this is a hexadecimal sequence separated by a colon, for example 10ec:8139 or 10de:054c.
  • Ignore the Device ID of any subsystems on the second line of output, if there are any.
• Note the Kernel driver (or "module") in use.

For USB devices, find the required information with:

lsusb

The loaded kernel modules can be shown with the command:

grep DRIVER /sys/class/net/*/device/uevent

LAN Cards/Onboard Chips

USB LAN Dongle