Affordable 802.11n USB dongle that IS supported in Fedora

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/04/2014 04:43 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 23:59 -0400, bruce wrote:
>> if i plug in a usb wifi.. and NM comes up, and I can access a network
>> via the dongle.. then yeah, I'd argue that you can determine if the
>> dongle is supported by linux fedora by plugging it in!
> Ordinarily, I'd agree with that.  However, if USB dongles are anything
> like dial-up modems used to be (external or internal), the chipsets used
> in particular models were not consistent.  e.g. Out of a specific model
> number modem, some of them could be Lucent chipsets, the rest something
> else.
>
> So, if you went through a bin of gadgets, you'd actually have to try
> them all, rather than just try one out of each model range.

D-link use to be very bad this way.  They would change chip set and not 
change even the product model number.  So you would go to update the 
firmware and brick your adapter.  They have since figured out that you 
really need to keep your consumer informed.