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). HTH -- Arun Khan