Usb wifi dongle

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Hi, currently usb wifi dongles works in Haiku? I am about to set up Haiku to an old core2duo machine and i want to know which wifi to buy.

Thanks!

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Practically none. Buy a pci one or a minipci adapter and a minipci card.

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I see. The problem is that it is a mini pc with no pci. I will fall back to ethernet.
Any idea when this will be plausible?

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Check the motherboard maybe it sports a minipci slot.

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Dell optiplex 755 usff.

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Your only option is wired connection then.

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Since the router is far away, powerline ethernet.

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what about a ethernet to wifi adapter this should work - not tested. I thinking about this solution since also have not supported wifi card in my notebook

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Like? send a link.

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In the case of the dongle, it has a flash memory with wifi drivers. Would have to have drivers specifically for Haiku. This is a problem that can be solved

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Yes, you could use one of these wifi routers that can work in “reverse” mode (being a client on wifi and a dhcp server on wired ethernet). For example this one (it’s not manufactured anymore, but with some research you could find newer ones that do similar things):

https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr702n/

But powerline ethernet will work just as well and is probably simpler to set up, because these devices usually create a new network (with different ip ranges, separate dhcp server, etc) and that can sometimes be a problem (say if you want to run a server on that machine and have it accessible from other machines in your network).

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If you have an old spare router, you could look into installing OpenWRT or DD-WRT on it. Those alternative firmwares allow any (supported) router to work in client mode.

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https://www.amazon.de/Ethernet-2-WiFi-Universal-Wireless-Adapter-GWU637/dp/B018YPWORE

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https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr902ac/

Around $40, it also allows wired connection to WiFi. Confirmed to work with Haiku on my MacBook Pro.

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Hi again,

i tried openWRT to an older router but no go, so i used powerline and problem solved!
I downloaded x86 and 64bit nightly images, but both crashed on booting. I used fail-safe graphic driver (in safe mode) and voila, the installation is done (tried in x86 first)!
The CPU is a core2duo at 2.66GHz with embeded graphics.
How i can use a graphic driver to have some acceleration in browser, games etc?

Thanks!

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No graphic driver in Haiku provide any kind of acceleration currently. So you’re not missing much by using failsafe graphics. The only difference is the number of available video modes.

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Video mode is fine.
Thanks for the quick reply!