Recommended USB wifi

[cds60601]

Hey folks!

I will be looking for new USB wifi adapters soon to replace my proprietary ones. I'm getting a wee bit tired of having to recompile drivers every time I have a kernel update so I would prefer to get one or two that are supported out of the box.

Please let me know our thoughts on this.

C.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

You may have trouble finding one that will work without installing non-free firmware, unfortunately.

This one works for me:

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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:2070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2070 Wireless Adapter

But I had to install the firmware-misc-nonfree package

[4D696B65]

You may have trouble finding one that will work without installing non-free firmware, unfortunately.

Change "may" to "definitely will"

Something a year or two old will have better support than the sns chip that came out last month.

[cds60601]

You may have trouble finding one that will work without installing non-free firmware, unfortunately.

Change "may" to "definitely will"

Something a year or two old will have better support than the sns chip that came out last month.

I agree there. I was using DLink DWA-171 that uses the rtl8811au driver (git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812A ... _linux.git)
but I wonder how much longer that that driver will work (of course, I still need to recompile after a kernel bump).

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I still need to recompile after a kernel bump

Have you tried their DKMS implementation?

https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812A ... -with-dkms

[cds60601]

I still need to recompile after a kernel bump

Have you tried their DKMS implementation?

https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812A ... -with-dkms

LOL - I just saw that too!! I was using a slightly older version and saw this. Just finished the compile.

[RU55EL]

You might take a look at think penguin.

[andre@home]

Look for USB with the supported chipset under Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... ss_drivers
quite some tips and links here:
https://forum.antergos.com/topic/5837/c ... i-adapters
a/o alraedy given by RU55EL
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wi ... g-gnulinux