Linux USB WiFi Adapter AC1200 for Ubuntu Kali Mint Debian Kubuntu

Great price, and works great for Linux. TL;TR: So this is a reasonably priced USB-A WiFi adapter. I bought it as it is AC1200 and so supported by Linux (I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server on a Turing Pi 2 cluster for K8s). Note: support for this isn't in the standard distro or kernel, but it's literally a one line install (you wget an install script from their endpoint and it automatically recognises the card on the USB and installs the driver, super simple and worked first time). It doesn't install as wlan0: but as a name based on its MAC address but that's easy to change from the command line. I'm using it now to route from the internal eth0: network on my Turing Pi 2 with all four nodes on their eth0: to wlan0: on node4 and thence onto my home WiFi network. All nodes can apt-get, and I can ssh into any of the nodes from an endpoint on the home WiFi network. Exactly what I wanted, and less than half the price of other adapters I saw. Recommended.

Good one, worked directly in my Ubuntu desktop 24 LTS in Asus Vivobook Go 14

Clear instructions so getting the drivers installed on my home PC under Debian 12 was plain sailing.

Really fast delivery. The adapter came with both windows and linux drivers on cd, as well as clear instructions on the install. Which turned out to be unnecessary for my Kubuntu install as it just worked out of the box! That is no mean feat in Linux land and I am actually quite impressed. I think it is an excellent product.

Très bien

I'm using the BrosTrend AC1L Wireless Dual Band USB Adaptor on a 10 year old Asus X401A laptop to give me 5GHz Wifi - the laptop only has 2.4GHz as standard. It works very well, much faster than I expected since the laptop has only USB-2 ports. I don't normally review products I buy on Amazon but this one is good enough to make me do so. So, if you are looking for a dual band wi-fi USB adaptor for Linux, then you need to read the description from BrosTrend very carefully to make sure it will work for you. Specifically, it does not work on all Linux distros. So, make sure your distro is not on the unsupported list - as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Centos are for example. If you pass this test, make sure the version of your Linux distro is present in the supported list. If it is, you are good to go. For anything else, contact BrosTrend by email and ask them, don't waste your time and money on a gamble. Before you order from Amazon, check again that you are ordering the Linux adaptor, rather than the Windows or Apple one. What you will receive will be the adaptor and a mini-CD containing drivers. The packaging will also tell you that you can contact BrosTrend for technical support. I found I didn't need the support ticket, I simply went to the BrosTrend website and found the download page for the AC1L, and downloaded the Quick Installation Guide for Linux. It's a PDF that gets displayed using a Google online viewer but it works fine. I then followed the instructions absolutely as specified - they are complete, simple and commendably brief. The installation script downloads all of the necessary libraries and code to build the driver, and installs it in kernel space. The run time on my (aged) laptop is about 15 minutes, the compilation phase takes several minutes so be patient. Once complete, I didn't even need to reboot, after a minute or so I could see two wireless network interfaces in Wi-Fi Settings. These are the two network interfaces of the AC1L and they both work! I can choose either as the interface I want to use, and additionally the Aeroplane Mode function key of the Asus turns off both of them. The performance of the 5GHz is surprisingly good - bear in mind I am using USB-2 on a 10 year old laptop, your experience may vary. Finally, if you send your Amazon order number to [email protected], you get 30 months warranty on the product, rather than just 24 months. It doesn't get much better than this.

Lo uso con Debian 13 KDE su un vecchio mini PC DELL; perfettamente plug&play; prende benissimo banda 5GHz anche se il router è al piano di sotto. Consigliatisssimo.

Easy five stars. I returned two other wifi devices that claimed to work with Linux on older hardware but didn't. This one came with instructions to download a Linux driver. But I just plugged it in to see. It worked almost instantly. No drivers were needed for this fresh install of Mint on an old Dell Precision 3500. I'm posting this from that old Dell over wifi minutes after plugging it in.