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NanoPi NEO what USB wifi shoudl I plug in?

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:20 pm
by utek
Hi There.

I have nanoPi neo. I'm trying to connect USB WiFi dongle to it. I tried 3 types on ubuntu core setup. none of them works.

1 on ifconfig shows strange name of the interface not like wlan0 but some strange characters.

can some ona give an advice or help?

utek.

Re: NanoPi NEO what USB wifi shoudl I plug in?

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:01 pm
by meisam
utek wrote:
Hi There.

I have nanoPi neo. I'm trying to connect USB WiFi dongle to it. I tried 3 types on ubuntu core setup. none of them works.

1 on ifconfig shows strange name of the interface not like wlan0 but some strange characters.

can some ona give an advice or help?

utek.


hi
due to the wiki :
http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO

Number Model
1 RTL8188CUS/8188EU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
2 RT2070 Wireless Adapter
3 RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
4 RTL8192CU Wireless Adapter
5 MI WiFi mt7601

that`s very strange to find the right one ,

Re: NanoPi NEO what USB wifi shoudl I plug in?

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:56 am
by jjm
Our system has support for popular USB WiFi drivers. Many USB WiFi modules are plug and play with our system. Here is a list of models we tested;

Number Model
1 RTL8188CUS/8188EU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
2 RT2070 Wireless Adapter
3 RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
4 RTL8192CU Wireless Adapter
5 MI WiFi mt7601