I have an Acer Aspire netbook running Ubuntu 12.04-32 bit, and the internal wireless network adapter has gone intermittent. I will be traveling soon and decided to go ahead and get a USB adapter with long range capabilities instead of replacing the internal one. I have done research, primarily on the Alfa units. It seems I should be looking at chipset and compatibility with my kernel version. It looks like these units are using a variety of Realtek, Ralink, and Atheros sets. Linux drivers are incredibly hard to find. I'm coming up on Google with vague "it sort of works but your have to…" over things I cannot understand.
I'd like to see if anyone is using a unit that works under the Ubuntu 12.04 kernel. Brand is unimportant, but it has to be available in the marketplace. A recommendation would save me headaches of buying something that does not work. I don't need full monitoring capability or the ability to use tools to hack networks. I just want to find available weak/distant free open wifi any hour of every day, and not just when my internal unit decides to function. 802.11n would be really nice but I will take what I can get. Selling one? Even better. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
