Raspbian includes drivers
(nl80211)
to boot with Raspberry Pi builtin components.
Raspbian also includes drivers for popular chipsets
such as RealTek (rtl81*) and RaLink (rt2*).
| device | driver | purpose | presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| eth0 | nl80211 | ethernet builtin wired | rpi2, rpi3 |
| wlan0 | nl80211 | managed builtin wireless | rpi3, rpi0w |
| wlan0ap | nl80211 | AP builtin wireless | rpi3, rpi0w |
| wlan1 | nl80211 | managed RealTek wireless | Tenda W311Mi dongle |
| uap0 | rt2800 | AP RaLink wireless | ComFast CF-WU825N dongle |