On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba0000_
wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles
s_ac1200_db.html
Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux? E.g. is the driver fully
supported in the mainline kernel, or in the kernel but in "staging", or
...?
About a year ago, I purchased a Asus RT-N66U and a USB radio (I think it
is a N53) for a project which now is postponed. The USB radio "just
worked" in two or three machines, but I do not recall whether they were
i386 or amd64; I have both, and was running "straight out of the box"
Lenny.
No guarantee, but in my experience, WiFi "just works" in Debian Squeeze
and Jessie. (I jumped from Squeeze to Jessie; I did not like the Gnome in
Wheezy.) And ASUS typically is very good.
An external radio can be useful even if the radio in a laptop still is
functional, because a WiFi network is limited by the speed of the slowest
machine (B, G, N, AC); so it may be possible to keep an older laptop in
service merely by plugging in a faster radio.
Russ