[CentOS] Centos7 USB wifi recommendation

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On 21/03/17 05:02, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for one of those very small USB wifi adapters for the server I
>> am working on.  I am tired of dealing with the 4" long TP-LINK I have and
>> for my purposes, one of those little 1cm ones would do.  But which work with
>> Linux?  When I was last in the store, only the TP-LINK said it was supported
>> on Linux...
>>
>
> Most of the 1cm WiFi dongles have a Realtek chip.  The rtl819x
> supports quite a few Realtek WiFi chipset
> (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/rtl819x).
> I have bought a few on eBay for a couple of bucks each and they worked
> out fine.   The device is activated when plugged into an USB port
> (ifconfig -a).
>

Just to add, the RHEL 7.3 kernel backported the wireless stack from 
kernel-4.7, so if a chipset is supported by kernel-4.7 then it should be 
supported in latest CentOS 7.

Hope that helps.