[Dead Corpse]

Um.... Which Linux distro were you having problems with?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That's how I always solve it.

I always go for the $5 one though.

150M Mini USB WiFi WLAN Wireless Network Adapter 802.11n/g/b For Win7/Mac/Linux

[ShadowAce]

[GeronL]

I had zero problem getting my laptop online the minute I installed Ubuntu.

There are some WIFI routers that apparently don’t work with Linux though.

[martin_fierro]

varmint -- it all depends on the chipset that the wireless device uses.

Linux no likee Broadcomm chips.

I've always had good luck with these funky Zyxel units

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ok...so I’m confused. How will plugging in a usb wifi device to your PC’s USB port allow your Linux distro access your wifi network any easier? What method do you use now? Are you using a desktop PC or a laptop. Please elucidate.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Running Linux Mint 16 from a 16 GB USB drive.

First couple of boots I had a problem with the Broadcom chips on this Dell.

In order to get the wifi to work, I’d have to go to the driver manager and select the driver manually on each boot.

I had to edit a config file to load some modules automatically on boot, as they weren’t doing so by themselves.

Now, it works fine.

Surprised me, as I haven’t had wireless issues in years. If it didn’t work out of the box, the Driver Manager always fixed it on the first try.

[andyk]

Well, the binaries can be found for WiFi hardware - it’s just a matter of learning how to load modules properly, and read logs and cpuinfo. Granted, it’s not plug and play!

[tophat9000]

The article is quite correct, on PCs some brands of wifi hardware have no Linux drivers to link the wifi hardware to the Linux operating system. The wifi hardware in the PC and the Linux operating system on the PC simply cannot talk to each other. This has nothing to do with wifi routers

[cizinec]

I guess I’m not a normal person. :\

[DYngbld]

I run SUSE 12.x, and have no trouble, not sure what chipset I have for the WiFi. Never have had an issue on any machine I have run it on.

To the lucky owners of a Pi. I am working on a M.A.M.E. game server that I intend to run on a Pi and a 1Tb drive.