• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    What brand? In my experience Linux is very persnickety about USB Wifi/Bluetooth adapters.

    When I was buying mine a couple years back I had several failures before finding some kind of master list of supported devices.

    I dont have the list anymore, but everything I bought was TP-Link cause TP-Link appeared very frequently in the list from what i recall.

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      17 days ago

      It’s an Archer T3U, which uses a Realtek chipset. I was living in Africa at the time I bought it and you don’t get much choice when it comes to electronics. I heard of a guy who had to travel to Spain to get a USB mouse. Anyway, the problem is that I’m actually trying to install it on a Beaglebone Black which is stuck on the 5.10 LTS kernel. The chipset is actually supported in the latest kernel, but the BB version hasn’t been released yet.