[SOLVED] Looking for Linux friendly USB wireless adapters.
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A lot of the wireless adapters work out of the box now but if yours doesn't most likely all you would need to do is install the driver for the dongle and reboot.
If it still doesn't work than you will have to blacklist the driver for the onboard wifi card.
Sometimes I go to my online stores and put in usb wifi linux as search then peek.
Some products may be sold under many different names so the chip inside becomes the search term.
Remember that a few things control usb nic's. One is kernel level. Two is drivers in kernel that your distro has. Three is generally how opensource the maker is. While you can usually add in drivers for many popular brands, it is sometimes kind of a pain.
Lastly is a way that has somewhat fallen out of favor. That is to use windows drivers under ndiswrapper. In theory any windows driver could have worked on linux but the what on that project is slow.
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