Question about wi-fi dongle?

WetGeek

I bought a couple of these recently, to get access to our 5 GHz wi-fi:

I was careful to make sure that the description included "Compatible with Windows 10/8/7/XP, MAC OS, Linux etc." as we don't have any Windows machines here. But when I replaced the 2.4 GHz dongle on our media machine with one of these, it couldn't find it at all.

So I'm wondering whether anyone else here has one of these, and uses it on a Linux machine. It came with a tiny CD, which I presume has drivers on it. It's just possible that there's Linux content on that CD along with the Windows stuff, so the description just might be correct, but that's probably unlikely.

I thought I'd check here before I send them back to the vendor.

tomscharbach

WetGeek For what it is worth, I've never had any luck with WiFi AC dongles. I finally settled on using 2.4 GHz dongles.

Lucky for me, I've got Intel AC wifi cards in each of my working computers, so I don't have to worry about it anymore, unless I want to fire up the old Optiplex 7050, and since I use that only to build "portable M.2" externals, I don't need it much. The dongle is in a drawer, pulled out only when I want to fire up the 7050, which doesn't have an adapter.

The tiny CD in the package probably has Linux drivers and installation directions, but don't count on that doing any good, because chances are high that you'll have to install as a .deb or an .rpm, neither of which are eopkg.

If you can figure out what driver is needed for Linux, you might be able to find it in the forum.

stalebrim

WetGeek If you look at dmesg do you see the dongle being picked up at all?