On 03/21/2017 03:31 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > 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. And Centos-arm just moved to the 4.9 kernel!