// , Got any Ubuntu 802.11ac USB dongles?

If your 802.11ac USB Dongle:

1. Worked on Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, whatever, without installing anything,
2. Worked with 802.11ac

Brag to us all about your superior choices!

I am installing Ubuntu on a laptop, an XPS L512x, and I want to make sure I can connect to an 802.11ac router without compiling or installing or unzipping or whatever.

As much as I love doing such things, there comes a point...

Anyway, I'm not suuuuure this is the right place to ask this, and if I can get a better response in a different part, I can move it.

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I'm on Slackware PDC (pretty damn current) and I use a belkin surf and share.
$30 bucks at walmart, here's the firmware for linux....
Here's instructions for ubuntunistes
You may have to use a wrapper, which can be a little confusing. If you get stuck post back.

// , As much as I love wrappers (especially on Christmas!) I'd rather plug something in and have it just work.

Know anything like that for 802.11ac on Linux?

No doubt, I just don't have it jammed in my laptop at the moment. This guy seems to have made a study out of which dongles are natively supported (if you don't want a wrapper, you need native support).

NathanBasanese,

The first reply on here succeeded with a TP-Link Archer T4U AC1200 on Ubuntu 14.04:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/53340...her-t4u-driver

TP-Link Archer T4U AC1200:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-T4U...+Plug+and+play

Hi...

Welcome to the forum

I'm not sure if that's possible at this point in time. The only two native Linux drivers that support the "ac" standard right now are the Atheros "ath10k' and the Intel "iwlwifi" driver. Please see here. You would need to find a USB adapter that uses one of those two drivers and I'm not sure if there are any out there or not.

If you want "ac" functionality, you may be stuck with compiling and installing...

Regards...

// , I found only one item on Amazon that actually seems to work with 5GHz 802.11N or 802.11AC:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XOPJ...iscussionsNRPB

https://www.amazon.com/review/RIAYIP...x3ITKGWI0OJSEZ

I bought a TP-Link model, but learned that the installation to Ubuntu was very difficult:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Wirel.../dp/B00UZRVY12

I might just buy it again, to try again, since the Linux situation seems like a wasteland.

These manufacturers just do not support GNU/Linux, except as an afterthought.

Hi...

I hope you find something that works, even if it does involve some compiling and installation.

Regards...