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Is there an actual list of compatible USB WiFi Adapters??? I have a Netgear WNA3100 that works for about 10 minutes then I have to restart the computer, I've looked everywhere and found nothing helpful, so my ony conclusion is it won't work!!! I had a D-link card that worked fine in windows but when I got it working in linux the card died shortly thereafter and doesn't work anywhere now... I want to know what I can buy off the shelf that works out of the box before I go spending more money!!! I've been looking at a Linksys WUSB6300 from what I can find it has a Realtek chipset...

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  • Check here.
    – Srihari
    May 1, 2014 at 9:29
  • Notice that buy recomendations are offtopic here, but you can search for specialized stores like thinkpenguin.com
    – xangua
    Feb 2, 2015 at 15:23
  • Personally i use a usb dongle with rtl8191 chipset. works like a charm even in brick buildings where i couldn't get any wifi signals.
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Apr 6, 2015 at 0:57
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is a hardware recommendation question.
    – Pilot6
    Sep 27, 2015 at 12:08

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FYI tested out of the box in Ubuntu 18.04/18.10 64bit

WORKING:
TP-Link TL-WN722N
TP-Link TL-WN821N
D-Link DWA-121
Panda

NOT working: Only tested on 15.04
Asus USB-N53
TP-Link Archer T2U (AC600)

I have not fiddled around or tried to install anything to make them work.

FYI There are still (2019) several USB WiFi adapters that doesn't work on Linux out of the box.

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Here's a list of some wireless cards that work with ubuntu, but there are many more, and almost anything you buy will be compatible with ubuntu.

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    That list is old, most of that hardware is no longer being produced...
    – user247020
    May 1, 2014 at 11:02
  • Most new hardware work with ubuntu.
    – Dusan Milosevic
    May 1, 2014 at 13:07
  • Or install the driver if it doesn't work.
    – Bhargav Nanekalva
    Dec 6, 2014 at 7:04
  • Still in 2012 the drivers were not often available. That is the last time I used USB-wifi adapter, and had to return it to the store after discovering the chipset was not supported by kernel, and there were no drivers available. The adapter I got in exchange worked straight away out of the box.
    – Ossi Viljakainen
    Dec 16, 2016 at 9:23
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Actually here's a solution that I'm currently using: Just use USB tethering with your mobile phone! Basically all mobile phones now have a WIFI adapter on its own which works perfectly well, and then through USB the data transmission rate is high. It's been working for me for a while.

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  • Well, if you need it for your desktop computer / music server / NAS, don't you think using your 300 USD smartphone for the purpose is kind of expensive? Why not to use inexpensive 15 USD device which you can stick in the computer and leave there permanently?
    – Ossi Viljakainen
    Dec 16, 2016 at 9:22
  • @OssiViljakainen Apparently the original question asked exactly what to do when such a 15 USD device doesn't work. Here's something that is guaranteed to work.
    – xji
    Dec 16, 2016 at 15:44

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