Linux-friendly USB 802.11n

[David Hardy]

I have a couple of HP Pavilion desktop machines that came with
Qualcomm/Atheros ethernet controllers, and RHEL 6 on up and its downstream
clones will not give me net on them;  I've been through countless sites,
RH's support tickets, Bugzilla, the elrepo guys, etc., and there is just
not a driver out there yet that will work, and RH says in effect that
they're in no hurry to write one, either.  I can run Fedora 20 on them
without a problem, however, and I didn't have to do anything extra to get
the net working;  I can also run RH and the clones as vm's under that, as
they are forced to use the host's ethernet.   But just can't do RH as the
host machine on them.

That penguin wireless adapter looks interesting but again, not much help
for me here:

*"Trisquel 6, Scientific Linux 6.4, RHEL 6.4, CentOS 6.4, and Debian 7
currently require the installation of a driver, firmware, and/or kernel
upgrade. See our support documentation
<https://www.thinkpenguin.com/support> for details."*

Except when I look at the documentation link, there is nothing for RH or
the clones.




On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:

> I was curious about this and googled around. There seem to be a lot of
> sites identifying compatible adapters, but one of the more interesting site
> I found that I had never seen before was Think Penguin, a site dedicated to
> Linux compatible hardware. Their wifi adapter is $54 and expressly calls
> out compatibility with pretty much every modern distro and version.
>
> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
>
> -Shawn
> On Mar 16, 2014 1:03 PM, <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello, all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a "Linux-friendly" 802.11n (Wireless N) USB adapter.  By
>> "Linux-friendly", I mean I'm looking for one that will work with
>> in-kernel drivers (no separate module to compile & install), without
>> funky compatability layers (like NDIS wrapper), doesn't require extra
>> firmware, and is free/open source.
>>
>> I figure N is mature enough, now, that some hardware like this must
>> exist.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
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