I bought a cheap USB WiFi Adapter for my Ubuntu 22.04 system. I used to connect via a WiFi bridge running on DD-WRT but I’ve got this new Internet router from Cox cable that wasn’t being very cooperative with that, so I decided to replace it.

I probably should have done a little bit more research. I just looked at the product descriptions for something that had Linux listed and figured that should be good enough. Installing this adapter wasn’t terrible and the instructions are well-documented. The problem is really that it isn’t part of the kernel, so it might break on an update later and I will inevitably forget what was done and have to research it all over again. The good news is that is seems that there is some movement to get a driver added to the Linux 5.18 kernel, but I’m on 5.15 now so that’ll be a while.

Anyway, if I were to do it over again, I’d look for one on this list.

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