Panda PAU09 N600 USB WiFi Works Fine With Linux

[starshipeleven]

80211n is now ancient.

80211ad is about to be pushed out and yet we still can't find any 80211ac usb wifi dongles that work OOTB in Linux. What a freaking joke the WiFi hardware manufacturers are.

Fixed.
Because guess who is usually making the drivers because they are the only ones with full access to documentation?

[molecule-eye]

Nice mini-review. Getting tired of making my old Asus PCI wireless card work every time I update the kernel. For convenience (and the right price), I'll just grab a USB adapter that works out of the box.

[starshipeleven]

This 80211ac usb wifi dongle claims to have Linux support.
http://www.gearbest.com/network-cards/pp_443256.html

They provide drivers for a specific kernel version, since I don't give 2 shits about tiny dongles I looked up something more manly
(antennas = hair on chest, the more the better)
http://www.szedup.com/product-item/8...pter/#tab-id-2


And from its driver download page http://www.szedup.com/support/driver...oad/ep-ac1621/
I see that the linux driver is in uhm, source form, also for Android... but at least it lets me identify WTF of chipset this thing has.

rtl8814AU which is served by an out-of-tree driver here (based off the same source in that "driver" package) https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8814AU/ that supports up to kernel 4.8

Hmmm....

[Sonadow]

Fixed.
Because guess who is usually making the drivers because they are the only ones with full access to documentation?

Don't give me that. I can easily identify at least three USB wifi chipset drivers in the kernel stack that have been hopelessly broken for more than half a decade. To the point I can't be bothered to give an arse about filing bug reports. Time to let other users suffer what I have been suffering all this while.

[starshipeleven]

Don't give me that. I can easily identify at least three USB wifi chipset drivers in the kernel stack that have been hopelessly broken for more than half a decade. To the point I can't be bothered to give an arse about filing bug reports. Time to let other users suffer what I have been suffering all this while.

I don't see how this contradicts what I wrote. Drivers that suck are those that were made without enough help from manufacturer. Ever seen wifi drivers? Magic numbers, magic numbers everywhere. Community can't fix if they don't know.

[Mabhatter]

Hey look at that! I just built a Linux Ryzen rig (thanks Phoronix) and after dealing with ac dongles that claimed "Linux" support stumbled on this one. This company's whole lineup has Linux support. When I got mine in I had a few days of grief because the USB 2 conflicted with Keyboard and Bluetooth dongles. They were VERY helpful via emailed support, they even sent an email before the product arrived with contact info.

The ac dongle thing is pathetic, I mean how many android things have ac... and that's just Linux under the hood. I think it has to do with OEM parts getting the good parts and drivers and "consumer" parts in dongles are the leftovers.