If you go the PCI route you can always get antenna extensions such as https://smile.amazon.com/Highfine-Wireless-Extension-Bulkhead-Repeater/dp/B01GMBUS8O/ or comparable to deal with the "buried behind a steel box" issue.
-Tim On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 6:28 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >
