ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter III

ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter III This is a Mini-PCI Express WiFi Adapter, supported by a driver downloadable from Realtek and in official kernels from version 2.6.38. Features Chipset: Realtek RTL8188CE IEEE Standards: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n 1x2 MIMO PCI ID: 10ec:8176

ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter III

Lenovo Partnumbers

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Linux support

This chip is supported by the rtlwifi/rtl8192ce driver, which was introduced in kernel 2.6.38. There are two other options available, a Linux driver available for download from Realtek, or ndiswrapper.

ATTENTION!

If you are not comfortable with running development code and have the option, order your ThinkPad with a different WiFi adapter. All other available WiFi options are supported by in-kernel drivers in modern Linux distributions

rtlwifi

The rtlwifi driver which supports this chip is included in kernel 2.6.38-rc1 and later. With earlier kernels you can install the driver from the wireless-next kernel tree or, if you are running a recent stable kernel, build only the drivers from the compat-wireless branch.

See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/ for instructions about installing compat-wireless.

Realtek Linux driver

The Realtek Linux driver for this chip can be downloaded from the Realtek website

Please note: use of this or a similar driver on Lenovo systems may results in unpredictable fatal crashes on some systems! It's is *not* advised to choose this driver.

ndiswrapper

NOTE!

The use of ndiswrapper is not recommended

It may be possible to use the Windows drivers with Ndiswrapper.

ThinkPads this card may be found in

• Edge 13" (Intel)