In general for Linux, you want to stick with Atheros or Intel based cards and they just work. The downside is that the PAU06 is 802.11N, which is slow and outdated nowadays.
The PAU06 is an Atheros chip, which is very well supported in Linux. If you're interested in the most plug and play thing possible, you will want to stay with that PAU06. So a lot of people are dealing with this out of tree driver BS because Realtek is stupid. Supposedly that driver is going to get support for the 8821 hardware in the next year. They decided to skip the 8821 based chips and to submit a driver for the 8822 based hardware. Realtek never bothered to do that with this particular chipset. The way Linux works is that when you want your device to have support in the Linux kernel, you have to submit a driver to the kernel mailing list and then Linus Torvaldus has to eventually approve it to be merged into the kernel. These Realtek wireless devices are weird. Posts: 166 | Location: Washington State | Registered: December 13, 2018
It's like a 5 minute procedure if he can follow simple instructions. the question.Īll he has to do is use dkms to install the RTL8821AU driver. Ps - after Mint install, you have rebooted? I know, I know. I've not experienced the Panda, others have on the Linux Mint forum. this uses the Ralink chipset and as such, might be plug and play with - the Mint 17.x drivers on the install CD - well likely to work. Take a look at the Panda PAU06 300Mbps Wireless N USB adapter on Amazon. You'll want at least 300Mbps or better for wifi. To add the Realtek drivers and the steps is a tad lengthy and requires the wired connection to download the drivers from github. I'm thinking that when you hand off the laptop to your daughter, the less that can wrong later the better. That's just for confirmation.Īt this point, rather than get to convoluted, I think it would be better for a different device. Should read as Device-1 Realtek then a model number. Host: kernel should indeed be x86_64 bits, then scroll down the output and look at I would also ask you to run, in the terminal window:
That's likely the wifi adapter, re-badged with Realtek chipset.
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