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USB Wifi Dongles (for Linux) - Anything to Avoid? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't believe I'm asking this, but, quite simply, I need a USB Wifi dongle that will play nice with Linux for my old Yoga. My router is a Netgear R7000 running Fresh Tomato. No 6 GHz support there so I don't really need the adapter to have it either.

There's a story behind this - of course....

I had to replace the screen. Since it's a 2-in-1, the screens are basically glued in so I swapped the entire 'lid assembly' rather than just the panel. Opted to upgrade to a 1080 instead of the 720 it originally had. Surprise! The new panel has a different (older) antenna connector for the internal antennas that won't work with any of the wifi cards I have. Rather than downgrading the wifi card or removing and regluing the display, I'd rather just grab a cheap USB adapter.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'd steer clear of Netgear and realtek.