Wifi Dongles

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 04:44:33PM -0700, agents4jesus at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As you may know, I am adding the finishing touches to my desktop computer
> that I have built. Now I'm looking for a wifi dongle, but I can't seem to
> find any that definitely work with Ubuntu. I know that the RPi official wifi
> dongle works, but it is above my price point ($20).
> 
> Have any of you found any dongles that work well with Ubuntu?
> I'm trying to keep the price under $20.
> 
The cheapest you can buy from an anonymous eBay or AliExpress seller.
They tend to use the lowest common denominator hardware and thus Linux
has drivers.  If you go for a more expensive one you're much more
likely to hit one that needs custom drivers only available for MS
Windows.

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Chris Green