I have single board computers running Armbian, and so far I’ve just been communicating with them over UART, but obviously I need network connectivity for them. Are there any USB Wi-Fi adapters that are natively supported by the Linux kernel without needing to download something first? I really prefer to just plug a USB dongle in and just have the board boot up with Wi-Fi, especially since my router is in an extremely hard to access place and needing a wired network before Wi-Fi will work is going to get real old real fast since I plan on tinkering with and re-flashing some of them frequently. Can anyone recommend anything?

  • washipp
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    4 years ago

    Im using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I switched from WIndows 10 and have always used a USB Wi-Fi dongle. On windows I installed some driver, but I think that was just some bloatware. I use Netgear A6210-100PES (USB 3.0), which works flawlessly for me.

    I’m quite new to linux, so no idea if this works on Armbian, but thats my experience.