Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use 
archlinux to install it and get it up and running.  You need 
wpa_supplicant; iw, dialog and netctl packages installed.  Now I have an 
rt2780 usb wifi adapter and have this working.  Once those packages are 
installed, you run netctl list and the first string that returns will be 
at least one wifi possibility.  The next thing to do is type netctl 
enable network string from netctl list.  Then reboot the computer and 
watch your wifi network come up.  What I just described I have no idea 
how to do with any form of debian.  Earlier I documented what happened 
with the firmware debian disk on an acer 5003 notebook which is an amd 
clone and my real amd k8 athelon machines.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:28:45
> From: Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter
>
> On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:43 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> > This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my
> > raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed.
> >
> > www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2
>
> I have something similar, quite like the possibility to use an external
> antenna.
>
> But it's Ralink, so it has proprietary firmware right?

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