Wireless USB suggestion

Greetings All,

I purchased an SMCWUSB-G wireless adapter and it works great!

The case is rather large and bulky; but, the adapter came with a USB extension cable and I am able to plug it into the back of my machine.

Again, many thanks to those who responded.

Cheers,

Dave

Good day, everyone.
I`m very new to Linux and looking for solution to just plug USB wifi adapter and work with it.

I use live CD installation of LinuxCNC 2.7.14 with Debian Wheezy.
Anyone can recommend some USB wifi adapter to use with it?

I use a Alfa AWUSO36NH and it was plug and play.

If you are just looking to upgrade linuxcnc via internet you can easily do that by tethering a cell phone. I have done that a few times. It was just plug and play.

Im looking for solution to have a sharing folder between cnc machine and pc with CAD. Usb stick is useful but sometimes need a lot of movements.

Alfa looks like 90s products, sorry
Maybe somebody has expiriense with some small Chinese stick's

I would advise Alfa AWUSO36NH, which is a powerful solution with a driver for Linux. I personally use Edimax as Pathpilot does, as someone recommended me here. But the Edimax nano USB stick mounts the Realtek RTL8188CUS, RTL8192CU chipsets and you need to patch the driver to make it work with linux. Otherwise, the connection is intermittently; the problem also may afflicts the following sticks:
- ASUSTek USB-N13 **rev. B1** (0b05:17ab)
- Belkin N300
- Edimax EW-7811Un (7392:7811)
- TP-Link TL-WN822N (0bda:8178)
- TP-Link TL-WN823N
- TRENDnet TEW-648UBM N150

I purchased an SMCWUSB-G wireless adapter and it works great!

One common recommendation is the TP-Link N150. However, the chipset has changed and now it does _not_ seem to work with Linux. Certainly not with the LinuxCNC ISO.

So that is one to avoid (which might be more useful than a recommendation)

Its hard to find in local stores SMC or Alfa...
So I buy locally TP-link TL-WN821N V6
Download drivers from TP-link, unpack it and got error on compilation

On this forum got instructions:

On line 7 of the make file change
CONFIG_IOCTL_CFG80211=y
to
CONFIG_IOCTL_CFG80211=n
type in console in driver folder:
make modules
sudo make install

And Got SUCCESS also
Thank all for support!

Reviving an old thread to understand if the answer would be the same. What is the best wireless USB dongle that is supported today? Has anyone bought one recently that did not require a driver to be installed?

Any new recommendations from those that were previously posted?

Thanks in advance!