Linux PCMCIA Supported Device List Last updated: 1999/12/22 01:18:04 The following cards are known to work in at least one actual system. Other cards may also work -- if you can get a card to work that is not on this list, please let me know. This list is complete to the best of my knowledge. CardBus cards are listed at the end of each section. At this time, all CardBus drivers should be treated as experimental. Beware that some cards have 16-bit and CardBus versions with very similar names. If the CardBus version is not specifically listed as supported here, then you should not expect it to work. Next to each driver, I've tried to indicate which system architectures (x86,ppc,axp) are known to be supported. This information is likely to be incomplete, and additions/corrections would be very welcome. -- David Hinds Ethernet cards: [3c589_cs driver] [x86,ppc] 3Com 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D 3Com Megahertz 3CCE589E, 3CXE589D, 3CXE589EC Farallon EtherWave, EtherMac [fmvj18x_cs driver] [x86,ppc] CONTEC C-NET(PC)C Eagle NE200 Ethernet Eiger Labs EPX-10BT, EPX-ET 10BT, EPX-ET 10TZ Fujitsu FMV-J181, FMV-J182A, FMV-J183 Fujitsu Towa LA501, FMV-1080, FM50N-183 Hitachi HT-4840-11 EtherCard NextCom NC5310 RATOC REX-9822, REX-5588A/W, REX-R280 TDK LAC-CD02x, LAK-CD021, LAK-CD022A, LAK-CD021AX, LAK-CD021BX [nmclan_cs driver] [x86,ppc] New Media EthernetLAN New Media LiveWire [ NOT the LiveWire+ ] [pcnet_cs driver] [x86,axp] Accton EN2212, EN2216 EtherCard Accton SOHO BASIC EN220 Addtron Ethernet AIBrain EPCM-T Allied Telesis CentreCOM CE6001, LA-PCM, LA-PCM V2 AmbiCom AMB8002, AMB8002T AnyCom ECO Ethernet Apollo RE450CT Argosy EN210 Asante FriendlyNet [ new cards seem to not work!! ] AST 1082 Ethernet Atelco ethernet Billionton LNT-10TB, LNT-10TN California Access LAN Adapter CeLAN EPCMCIA CNet CN30BC, CN40BC Ethernet Compex/ReadyLINK Ethernet Combo Compex LinkPort Ethernet COMPU-SHACK BASEline Ethernet Connectware LANdingGear Adapter Corega Ether PCC-T, PCM-T CyQ've ELA-010 10baseT Danpex EN-6200P2 Ethernet Datatrek NetCard Dayna Communications CommuniCard E Digital DEPCM-AA, PCP78-AC Ethernet Digital EtherWORKS Turbo Ethernet D-Link DE-650, DE-660 DynaLink L10C Ethernet Edimax Technology Ethernet Combo EFA InfoExpress 205, 207 Combo Eiger Labs EPX-ET10T2 Combo ELECOM Laneed LD-CDWA, LD-CDX, LD-CDNIA, LD-CDY, LD-CDF EP-210 Ethernet Epson Ethernet EtherPRIME Ethernet Explorer NE-10000 Ethernet EZLink 4109 Ethernet Fiberline FL-4680 Gateway 2000 Ethernet Genius ME3000II Ethernet Grey Cell Ethernet GVC NIC-2000P Ethernet Combo Hamlet LM560 Hawking PN650TX Hypertec HyperNet IBM CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IC-Card Ethernet Infotel IN650ct Ethernet IO DATA PCLA/T, PCLA/TE Katron PE-520 Ethernet KingMax Technology EN10-T2 Ethernet Kingston KNE-PCM/M, KNE-PC2, KNE-PC2T KTI PE-520 Plus LANEED LD-CDW Ethernet LanPro EP4000A Lantech Ethernet Level One EPC-0100TB Linksys EtherCard Logitec LPM-LN10T, LPM-LN10BA, LPM-LN20T Ethernet Longshine ShineNet LCS-8534TB Ethernet Macnica ME-1 Ethernet Maxtech PCN2000 Ethernet Melco LPC-TJ, LPC-TS, LPC-T, LPC2-T Microdyne NE4200 Ethernet Midori LANNER LT-PCMT NDC Instant-Link NEC PC-9801N-J12 Network General "Sniffer" New Media LanSurfer UNEX NexNIC MA010 Novell/National NE4100 InfoMover OvisLink Ethernet Panasonic CF-VEL211P-B Planet SmartCOM 2000, 3500, ENW-3501-T, ENW-3502-T Pretec Ethernet PreMax PE-200 Ethernet Proteon Ethernet Psion Gold Card Ethernet Relia RE2408T Ethernet Reliasys 2400A Ethernet RPTI EP400, EP401, 1625B Ethernet SCM Ethernet [ Yes, SCM != SMC ] Sky Link Express SMC 8022 EZCard-10 Socket Communications EA LAN Adapter Socket Communications LPE Low Power Ethernet SOHOware Ethernet SuperSocket RE450T Surecom Ethernet SVEC PN605C Thomas-Conrad Ethernet TRENDnet Ethernet Trust Ethernet Combo Volktek NPL-402CT Ethernet [smc91c92_cs driver] [x86] Farallon Enet Megahertz XJ10BT, XJ10BC, CC10BT Ethernet New Media BASICS Ethernet Ositech Four of Diamonds SMC 8020BT EtherEZ [ NOT the EliteCard! ] [xirc2ps_cs driver] [x86,axp] Compaq Ethernet Adapter Xircom CreditCard CE2, CE IIps, RE-10 Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT) adapters: [3c574_cs driver] [x86] 3Com 3c574TX, 3CCFE574BT, 3CXFE574BT [pcnet_cs driver] [x86] Abocom LinkMate FE1000 AnyCom ECO Ethernet 10/100 Apollo Fast Ethernet COMPU-SHACK FASTline 10/100 Corega FastEther PCC-TX D-Link DFE-650 EXP ThinLan 100 Fiberline Fast Ethernet Hamlet FE1000 10/100 IO DATA PCET/TX KTI KF-C16 Laneed LD-10/100CD LevelOne FPC-0100TX Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast, PCM100H1 HomeLink 10/100 Logitec LPM-LN100TX Melco LPC2-TX Microcom TravelCard 10/100 Micronet EtherFast Adapter NetGear FA410TXC Planex FNW-3600T [smc91c92_cs driver] [x86] Argosy EN220 Dynalink L100C Lantech FastNet/TX Ositech Seven of Diamonds Melco/SMC LPC-TX WiseCom WC-PC400 [xirc2ps_cs driver] [x86,axp] [ some cards seem to misbehave at either 10baseT, or 100baseT, or both: the driver seems to not know how to configure the transceiver correctly ] Accton Fast EtherCard-16 Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 16-bit Toshiba IPC5008A, Advanced Network 10/100 Xircom CreditCard CE3-100, CE3B, RE-100 [3c575_cb driver] [x86] 3Com 3c575TX, 3CCFE575BT, 3CXFE575BT, 3CCFE575CT, 3CXFE575CT [epic_cb driver] [x86] [requires a 2.2 kernel, experimental!] Ositech Seven of Spades CardBus [tulip_cb driver] [x86] [requires a 2.2 kernel, experimental!] Accton EN2220 CardBus Allied Telesyn AT-2800 AmbiCom AMB8100 Apollo FE2000 Asante FriendlyNET CardBus Compex Linkport TX D-Link DFE-660TX Genius MF3000 Kingston KNE-CB4TX Laneed LD-10/100CB LevelOne FPC-0101TX 10/100Mbps CardBus Linksys PCMPC200 EtherFast CardBus OvisLink LFS PCM 32 SMC EZ CardBus 10/100 Ethernet SVEC FD606 10/100 Ethernet TDK NetworkFlyer LAK-CB100X, LAK-CB100AX CardBus UMAX Technologies UMAX250 [ Not recommended: support is experimental and unreliable ] IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 CardBus Mobile Adapter32 Xircom CBEII-10/100, RBE-100 Token-ring adapters: [ibmtr_cs driver] [x86] 3Com 3c389 TokenLink Velocity 3Com 3c689 TokenLink III IBM Token Ring Adapter IBM Token Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card Wireless network adapters: [wavelan_cs driver] [x86] AT&T / NCR / Lucent WaveLAN version 2.0 DEC RoamAbout/DS [netwave_cs driver] [x86] Breezenet SA-PX Xircom CreditCard Netwave Modem and serial cards: [ Virtually all modem cards, simple serial port cards, and digital cellular modems should work. The only exceptions are the Compaq 192, New Media WinSurfer, Motorola Montana, Megahertz XJ/CC2560, 3Com 3CXM356/3CCM356 and 3CXM656/3CCM656, Billionton 56K HSP, and other so-called "WinModems" that require special Windows drivers. ISDN modems that emulate a standard UART are also supported. ] [serial_cs driver] [x86,axp] Advantech COMpad-32/85 dual serial Argosy dual serial Black Box I114A RS-422/485 National Instruments PCMCIA-232, PCMCIA-232/2, PCMCIA-232/4 National Instruments PCMCIA-485, PCMCIA-485/2 Omega Engineering QSP-100 Quatech, IOTech dual RS-232 cards Quatech quad RS-232 card Socket Communications dual RS-232 card Trimble Mobile GPS Parallel port cards: [parport_cs driver] [x86] [requires a 2.2 or later kernel] Quatech SPP-100 IOtech DBK35, WBK20A Memory cards: [ All SRAM cards should work. Unsupported flash cards can be read but not written. ] [memory_cs driver] [x86,axp,ppc] Intel Series 2, Series 2+, and Value Series 100 Flash Maxtor MobileMax 16MB Flash IBM 8MB Flash RATOC SmartMedia Adapter TDK Flash Memory SFM20W/C 20MB SCSI adapters: [ Be careful. Many vendors. particularly CD-ROM vendors, seem to switch controller chips more or less at will. Generally, they'll use a different product code, but not always: older (supported) New Media Bus Toaster cards are not easily distinguishable from the current Symbios-based cards, which use the sym53c500_cs driver, distributed separately. ] [aha152x_cs driver] [x86] Adaptec APA-1460, APA-1450A, APA-1460A/B/C/D SlimSCSI Iomega Zip and Jaz Cards New Media Bus Toaster SCSI [ older cards ] New Media Toast 'n Jam [ SCSI only ] Noteworthy Bus Toaster SCSI Sony CD-ROM Discman PRD-250 [fdomain_cs driver] [x86] Future Domain SCSI2GO IBM SCSI Simple Technologies SCSI [qlogic_cs driver] [x86] Eiger Labs SCSI [ only cards w/FCC ID LXL... ] Epson SC200 MACNICA mPS110, mPS110-LP SCSI Midori CN-SC43 NEC PC-9801N-J03R Qlogic FastSCSI Panasonic KXL-D740, KXL-DN740A, KXL-DN740A-NB 4X CD-ROM Panasonic KXL-810AN, KXL-783A Raven CD-Note 4X RATOC REX-9530 SCSI-2 Toshiba NWB0107ABK, SCSC200A, SCSC200B [not sure which driver] Digital SCSI II adapter IO DATA PCSC-II, PCSC-II-L IO DATA CDG-PX44/PCSC CD-ROM Logitec LPM-SCSI2 Logitec LCD-601 CD-ROM Melco IFC-SC2, IFC-DC Pioneer PCP-PR1W, PCP-PR2W CD-ROM Taxan ICD-400PN [apa1480_cb driver] [x86] [recommend 2.2 or later kernel, experimental!] Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 CardBus Multifunction ethernet/modem cards: [3c589_cs driver] [x86] 3Com 3c562, 3c562B/C/D, 3c563B/C/D 3Com Megahertz 3CCEM556, 3CXEM556, 3CCEM556B Motorola Marquis [3c574_cs driver] [x86] 3Com Megahertz 3CCFEM556B [pcnet_cs driver] [x86,axp] Accton EN2218, UE2218 ActionTec ComNet 33.6 AnyCom Fast Ethernet + 56K Combo Asus combo card Billionton LM5LT-10B Dayna Communicard D-Link DME-336T, DMF-560TX, DMF-560TXD Grey Cell GCS3400 GVC LAN modem IBM Home and Away IBM Home and Away 28.8 IO DATA PCEM-336T Linksys LANmodem 28.8 (PCMLM28), 33.6 (PCMLM336) Linksys EtherFast LANmodem 56K (PCMLM56) PREMAX LAN modem Psion V.34 Gold Card Rover ComboCard 33.6 TDK 3000/3400/5670 TDK DFL5610WS Fast Ethernet/Modem Telecom Device SuperSocket LM336 [smc91c92_cs driver] [x86] Gateway Telepath Combo Megahertz/U.S. Robotics EM1144, EM3288, EM3336 Motorola Mariner Ositech Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Hearts Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10Mb [xirc2ps_cs driver] [x86] Compaq Microcom CPQ550 Modem + 10/100 LAN Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN/Modem Xircom CreditCard CEM28, CEM33, CEM56 Xircom RealPort REM10BT, REM56G-100 [3c575_cb driver] [x86] 3Com 3CCFEM656B [ ethernet only!! ] [epic_cb driver] [x86] [requires a 2.2 kernel, experimental!] Ositech Jack of Spades CardBus Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb [tulip_cb driver] [x86] [ Not recommended: support is experimental and unreliable ] Xircom RBEM56G-100BTX, CBEM56G-100BTX ATA/IDE card drives: [ide_cs driver] [x86] Most cards should work fine, including adapters for external IDE devices. Both Flash-ATA cards and rotating-media cards are supported, including "Smartmedia" flash and Compact flash cards. The very old Western Digital 40MB drives are not supported, because they do not conform to the PCMCIA ATA specification. ATA/IDE Interface Cards: [ide_cs driver] [x86] Archos Zip100 MiniDrive Microtech International XpressDock DataStor Technology PCMCIA ATA/ATAPI Card Creo DNBoy GREYSTONE DD-25 Shining Technology CitiDISK 250PE Sicon Periperal Micro Mate ATA/IDE CD-ROM adapters: [ide_cs driver] [x86] Argosy EIDE CD-ROM Caravelle CD-36N CNF CARDport CD-ROM [ 6/10/20/32X, but NOT 2X! ] Creative Technology CD-ROM Digital Mobile Media CD-ROM EXP CD940 CD-ROM [ Some work, some do NOT! ] EXP Traveler 620, 3220 CD-ROM Freecom IQ Traveller CD-ROM H45 Technologies Quick 2X CD-ROM H45 Technologies QuickCD 16X IBM Max 20X CD-ROM IO DATA CDP-TX4/PCIDE, CDP-TX6/PCIDE, CDV-HDN6/PCIDE IO DATA CDP-TX10/PCIDE, CDP-FX24/CBIDE, MOP-230/PCIDE IO DATA HDP-1G/PCIDE, HDP-1.6G/PCIDE MCD601p CD-ROM Microtech International MicroCD Microtech Mii Zip 100 NOVAC NV-CD410 Sony PCGA-CD5 CD-ROM TEAC IDE Card/II The following cards have contributed drivers which are distributed as separate packages. The drivers are not included in the base PCMCIA package for maintenance reasons: they are for less common cards and I cannot test them. All are available on the Linux PCMCIA FTP site, in /pub/pcmcia/contrib. [airo_cs driver] Aironet PC4500, PC4800 wireless network adapters (Ben Reed ) [asplus_cs driver] Netwave AirSurfer Plus wireless network adapter http://ipoint.vlsi.uiuc.edu/wireless/asplus.html (Jay Moorman ) [cs89x0_cs driver] IBM EtherJet (Danilo Beuche ) [elsa_cs driver] Elsa MicroLink ISDN adapter (Klaus Lichtenwalder ) [floppy_cs driver] Y-E Data FlashBuster floppy drive adapter (David Bateman ) [iscc_cs driver] IBM Smart Capture RATOC REX-9590 (Koji Okamura ) [mpsuni_cs driver] MPS ISLINEnote ISDN adapter (Detlef Glaschick ) [nin_cs driver] IO Data PCSC-F SCSI adapter http://www.workbit.co.jp/workbit/products/nscsi-3.html (Yokota Hiroshi ) [sedl_cs driver] Sedlbauer Speed Star ISDN adapter (Marcus Niemann ) [sym53c500_cs driver] New Media Bus Toaster SCSI [ new version ] New Media BASICS SCSI SIMA TECH SCSI9000 (Tim Corner ) [teles_cs driver] Teles ISDN adapter http://home.wtal.de/petig/ISDN/index.html (Christof Petig ) [ss5136dn_cs driver] SST 5136-DN-PC DeviceNet Interface http://www.gnofn.org/~marksu/dn5136man.html (Mark Sutton ) [wavelan2_cs driver] Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE wireless network adapter (Lucent Technologies ) GemPlus GPR400 Smart Card Reader http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/code.html (Wolf Geldmacher ) Harris PRISM/AM79C930 IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN Nokia/InTalk ST-500A Samsung MagicWave SWL-1000N Zoom Telephonics ZoomAir 4000 http://www.absoval.com/linux-wlan (Mark Mathews ) National Instruments DAQcard700 ftp://fsmlabs.com/pub/rtlinux/v1/drivers/daqcard700-1.02.tar.gz ftp://fsmlabs.com/pub/rtlinux/v2/new_drivers/daqcard700-1.04.tar.gz (Steve Rosenbluth ) Proxim RangeLAN2 and Symphony wireless LAN cards http://www.komacke.com/distribution.html (Dave Koberstein ) Raylink Wireless Network http://world.std.com/~corey/raylink.html (Corey Thomas ) Silicom SPE ethernet, SEM EtherModem, SES EtherSerial http://www.silicom.co.il/linux.htm WaveLAN/IEEE wireless network adapter http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan (Andreas Neuhaus ) Winnov Videum Traveler camera http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~bnoble/group/wnv-pcmcia (Jim Zajkowski ) People are working on the following cards: Roland SCP-55 MIDI (Toshiaki Nakatsu ) CyberRom CD-ROM (David Rowntree ) IO DATA PCSC-II (Katayama Nobuhiro ) Macnica mPS-1x0 (Katayama Nobuhiro ) TView Preso (Brenden Tuck ) Proxim RangeLAN/2 (Jim Duchek http://students.ou.edu/D/James.R.Duchek-1/rangelan2.html The following cards are NOT supported. This list is not meant to be comprehensive: I list these cards because people frequently ask about them. In general, there are no technical reasons why a card is not supported: simply put, as far as I know, no one is working on these cards, therefore, drivers will not be written. Most cards on this list have been there for a very long time, so please do not send me email just to ask if their status has changed. Adaptec/Trantor APA-460 SlimSCSI Eiger Labs SCSI w/FCC ID K36... New Media .WAVjammer and all other sound cards New Media LiveWire+ Nikon CoolPix100 Panasonic KXL-D720, KXL-D745 SMC 8016 EliteCard Xircom CEM II Ethernet/Modem Xircom CE-10BT Ethernet Xircom CBE-10/100 CardBus The following vendors have assisted in the development of the Linux PCMCIA driver package by contributing hardware and/or technical documentation about their products. It could be inferred that since these vendors support Linux development and have provided technical help, that their cards are likely to be better supported under Linux. 3Com/Megahertz [ ethernet and multifunction cards ] Adaptec [ SCSI adapter cards ] Intel [ linear flash memory cards ] Linksys [ ethernet and multifunction cards ] Ositech [ ethernet/modem combo cards ] Sandisk [ ATA/IDE flash cards ] Quatech [ parallel port adapters ] Xircom [ ethernet and multifunction cards ]