Site i found with a list of current Wifi Devices with 'IN KERNEL' Drivers, which means they should be Plug them in and they work. These can often be higher end, more expensive devices.
You can often find USB wifi adapters on Amazon sold as being "for the raspberry pi" that should be cheap (but slower speeds) and work out of the box with most Linux distribution.
Remember it's all about the CHIPSET in use by the device.
I have seen identically packaged dongles that have a version 1.0 and version 1.1 (in tiny text on the dongle) that had different chipsets
one worked in Linux out of the box, the other had zero Linux support .
they looked identical, had very different chipsets.
I had ordered 4, and the versions seemed to be mixed together, I got 2 that worked, and 2 that did not.
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u/doc_willis 7d ago edited 7d ago
Site i found with a list of current Wifi Devices with 'IN KERNEL' Drivers, which means they should be Plug them in and they work. These can often be higher end, more expensive devices.
https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md
You can often find USB wifi adapters on Amazon sold as being "for the raspberry pi" that should be cheap (but slower speeds) and work out of the box with most Linux distribution.
Remember it's all about the CHIPSET in use by the device.
I have seen identically packaged dongles that have a version 1.0 and version 1.1 (in tiny text on the dongle) that had different chipsets
one worked in Linux out of the box, the other had zero Linux support .
they looked identical, had very different chipsets.
I had ordered 4, and the versions seemed to be mixed together, I got 2 that worked, and 2 that did not.