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 <[email protected]> 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
