[PLUG] wireless adapter recommendation for a Lenovo desktop

[Denis Heidtmann]

What you recommended was delivered.  Unfortunately to the wrong address, as
we have moved and I neglected to change the Amazon account.  So a neighbor
is retrieving it.  I will get in on Friday. This moving business is a royal
pain,  Not having done it for 40 years means that we are grossly
inexperienced, and have made a number of mistakes.

Thanks, Russell.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 6:28 AM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> Downside of a PCI connected device is that it is buried behind a steel
> box. It is generally easier to move around a USB device (on the end of
> a USB extension cable). The ar9271 chipset has good linux support:
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FVRKCZJ/. Even the firmware is
> open-sourced, very rare! Some of the newer ac devices don't have an
> "upstreamed" driver, which means you are constantly having to find
> some dodgy github version or someone's Nth generation mostly abandoned
> fork of unknown completeness. Not to say good options don't exist, I
> just don't happen to know what they are.
>
> Also, I would not give up on finding a way to get a wire to your
> machine. Wires++.
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 5:53 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for recommendations for adding wireless. I have been
> assuming
> > > a USB unit would be the choice, but there are 3 or 4 slots available.
> >
> > Hi Denis,
> >
> > There are USB adapter yet I suggest you consider an internal NIC such as
> > these from Newegg: <www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=wireless+nic>. Years ago I
> had a
> > couple but they ended up at Free Geek. Since the NIC is on the system bus
> > it's much quicker than an external USB device and takes up no desk/table
> > space.
> >
> > Stay well,
> >
> > Rich
>