I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server I am working on. I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have and for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do. But which work with Linux? When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it was supported on Linux... thanks
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server I > am working on. I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have and > for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do. But which work with > Linux? When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it was supported > on Linux... >Most of the 1cm WiFi dongles have a Realtek chip. The rtl819x supports quite a few Realtek WiFi chipset (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/rtl819x). I have bought a few on eBay for a couple of bucks each and they worked out fine. The device is activated when plugged into an USB port (ifconfig -a). HTH -- Arun Khan
On 21/03/17 05:02, Arun Khan wrote:> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >> I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server I >> am working on. I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have and >> for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do. But which work with >> Linux? When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it was supported >> on Linux... >> > > Most of the 1cm WiFi dongles have a Realtek chip. The rtl819x > supports quite a few Realtek WiFi chipset > (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/rtl819x). > I have bought a few on eBay for a couple of bucks each and they worked > out fine. The device is activated when plugged into an USB port > (ifconfig -a). >Just to add, the RHEL 7.3 kernel backported the wireless stack from kernel-4.7, so if a chipset is supported by kernel-4.7 then it should be supported in latest CentOS 7. Hope that helps.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 05:09:55PM -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server > I am working on. I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have > and for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do. But which > work with Linux? When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it > was supported on Linux...I've used the Edimax EW-7811Un on various flavors of Linux and BSD without problems, https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY $8.99 USD and free shipping on Amazon. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
On 03/21/2017 05:51 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 05:09:55PM -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server >> I am working on. I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have >> and for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do. But which >> work with Linux? When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it >> was supported on Linux... > I've used the Edimax EW-7811Un on various flavors of Linux and BSD without > problems, > > https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-150Mbps-Raspberry-Supports/dp/B003MTTJOY > > $8.99 USD and free shipping on Amazon. >Those have worked for me as well. Their range, however, is a third or half as much as a normal wifi device.