Suggestions for inexpensive, Linux-friendly USB wifi dongle

[buster]

( Edited out part of an email I sent to a friend in Ottawa!!!! )

Apparently this is what Mint uses under a different name. Used it many times. Zero failures! Also it's beyond simple, and pretty quick.

[fox]

You might want to check that link, Buster. It leads me to an Apple site dealing with mail.

[Jason]

Thanks, Fox, for the link and the info about it working with OpenSUSE, too. I wasn't aware that Tumbleweed could boot to a live ISO either. Be careful about using it if have to use extra video drivers. It's rolling release including kernel updates and external video drivers are usually compiled against a particular kernel.

[ssfc72]

Not sure what has happened to this thread, but page 2 seems to have been hijacked to a discussion on video drivers???

I updated my first post on page one of this thread, to report on my purchase of the Edimax N150 and found it not to work properly when using under Mint 17.3
I did get it working ok, by installing the 4.4 kernal.  Update July 22,  today the Edimax is again dropping the internet connection, on the Mint 17 desktop computer. :-(
The Edimax N150 seems to work fine under Windoze 7 and Vista.

See the 2nd post on page one, for more details.

[Jason]

Not sure what has happened to this thread, but page 2 seems to have been hijacked to a discussion on video drivers???

I fixed that by splitting those posts into a new topic on AMD drivers in Linux here:

https://forums.plugintolinux.ca/index.php/topic,576.0.html

[ssfc72]

Ok, I think I have managed to get the Edimax N150 usb wifi dongle to work under Mint 17.3.

I googled the issue and found some help, here:  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2328635
the user - kurt18947  provided the info needed.

use the command, lsmod , in Terminal, to find out what wifi driver is currently being used and then blacklist this driver.

I then used the install.sh  script, which is found on the Edimax cdrom, under the Linux folder.  I had to make install.sh , executable, to be able to run the script.
This script makes a new driver for the Edimax N150 and it seems to be working well, so far.  No more dropping the wifi connection, after a few minutes of use. :-)

[fox]

Are you going to try a newer version of Mint now?

[ssfc72]

No, the desktop computer has to only run Mint 17, because Simple Scan will only work the old Kodak page scanner.
Mint 18 and all other, newer Distros won t work with Simple Scan and the Kodak printer/scanner.