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I am tryiing out antix17 on an old intel atom based computer and so far it is impressive. I am having problems getting a USB wifi dongle that will work and would like to know which USB wifi chipsets are supported by antix17?
rokytnji
Where are you located?
linkEdit: China ships worldwide. Buy it now items would be how I roll if I lived overseas and wanted to buy something from China.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by rokytnji.
Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.Linux Registered User # 475019
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cyrilus31
It’s time to go shopping. Your president is about to start a trade war whith his friend Xi 😀
@ Roky : and how is the building of the wall going ;p
rokytnji
@ Roky : and how is the building of the wall going ;p
Don’t know. They are too busy building tent city prison camps for kids down the road from me in Tornillo.
How are things in your neck of Universe?Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems
Hierax_ca
Look at USB wi-fi adapters that were tested work with Raspberry Pi (which I think is also Debian-based). Most aren’t very fast but they are cheap and work on even really old computers.
for example, I picked up an Edimax N150 Wi-Fi Nano USB Adapter “ideal for Raspberry Pi” for cheap (~$10 CAD on Amazon.ca sale a while back) — EW-7811Un, realtek RTL8188cus, driver:rtl8192cu, chip-ID:7392:7811.
Now, FWIW, it’s pretty slow by today’s standards, it only gets about 5mbps (give or take) but it’s small and I can use it on a late 1990s’ (Toshiba Tecra 780dvd) and early 2000s computers (Thinkpad 600x and A31p) to connect to internet at speeds waaay faster than my old 1990s modem dial-up and older “high-speed” ISDN/ADSL/T1 internet, I think it is about the same as the early cable modem that once felt like light speed (usually I use Ethernet for up to about 10 faster even on these old beasts).
Basically, the ones I’ve tried were slow by today’s standards but I try to look at how fast they would have seemed if I had had those same speeds on those old computers back when they were new. There’s probably better/faster more expensive ones available too…
AntiX 17.x:
- (32-bit): IBM Thinkpad 600X (2000), IBM NetVista X41 (2002), IBM Thinkpad A31p (2003);
- (64-bit): Lenovo Thinkpads x61s (2008), x200 (2009), x301 (2009).malanrich
I’ve forgotten how many years ago I picked up a Trendnet 54Mbps Wireless G USB Adapter Kit. I’ve used this on desktops and laptops running antiX (17, 16, 15…), MX, Puppy, even on a Compaq Presario running W98). This dongle works on *everything*. And I’m still using the same one. Newer models no doubt exist, but this thing just won’t break or wear out.
Hierax_ca
Another one I’m successfully using on old computers is TP-Link TL-WN823N 300Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter, RealTek RTL8192cu, 802.11n WLAN, driver:rtl8192cu, chip-id:0bda:8178.
e.g., Thinkpad A31p (2003=15-year-old) with the ancient USB 1.1 it effectively gets ~5mbps give or take (earlier today was only 5.8 download and 4.9 upload on wireless vs. 61up 7.1down on the old Ethernet-100).
AntiX 17.x:
- (32-bit): IBM Thinkpad 600X (2000), IBM NetVista X41 (2002), IBM Thinkpad A31p (2003);
- (64-bit): Lenovo Thinkpads x61s (2008), x200 (2009), x301 (2009).cyrilus31
@ Roky : and how is the building of the wall going ;p
Don’t know. They are too busy building tent city prison camps for kids down the road from me in Tornillo.
How are things in your neck of Universe?Sorry I did not see your post before and wasn’t aware of what was happening in Texas when I made my hint to the wall 🙁
Nothing special from my part of the world. Migrants want to come here too as they flee poverty, war and so on.
But you gave me an idea to create a new topic.
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