This is an Atheros AR9223 chipset, which uses the officially supported free ath9k Linux driver.
The TP-LINK TL-WN851N is a PCI card.
The TP-LINK TL-WN861N is a Mini-PCI card.
The D-Link DWA-552 Xtreme N Desktop Adapter is a PCI card.
This chipset has been tested with IEEE 802.11g and 802.11n networks, unsecured and secured (WPA2-PSK).
$ lspci -nnkd 168c:0029 06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR922X Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0029] (rev 01) Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:2091] Kernel driver in use: ath9k Kernel modules: ath9k
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