WiFi Dongle

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Soon after I got my Endpoint I tried the WiFi sample program included in the documentation using a WiFI dongle I had used on a Raspberry Pi clone. It did not work.

After reading the documentation, I noticed that dongles using the RTL8188 chipset were required, so I ordered one from Amazon. It arrived today.

The dongle with the correct chipset worked. Imagine that…

I have not done any serious testing yet, but using the .Net Ping class I was able to ping ghielectorics.com.

A link to the WiFi dongle on Amazon is below. On sale for $3.50.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008O2AL0K?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

I hope to do some more WiFi tests later…

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Could you share to us the one you use on Raspberry Pi that don’t work?

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Most likely the dongle did not work because it did not use the supported chipset.

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I think this is a common feature of dongles. The RTL8188 chipset is also the only one I have Debian drivers for, and I need to compile it to work with the pocket beagle (and family). Perhaps GHI ported the driver as well? If so, then I believe my EDIMAX Dongles would also work. Going to be a while before I can test, sadly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FW6T36Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Is there a recommended dongle we can get? what about a list of those that GHI tested with and found to be stable?

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The dongle should use the RTL8188 chipset.

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I used a TP Link dongle to test

TP-Link USB WiFi Adapter for PC(TL-WN725N), N150 Wireless Network Adapter for Desktop - Nano Size WiFi Dongle for Windows 11/10/7/8/8.1/XP/ Mac OS 10.9-10.15 Linux Kernel 2.6.18-4.4.3, 2.4GHz Only : Amazon.ca: Electronics

Mike reported that this works good

Amazon.com: Netis WF2120 Wireless N150 Nano USB Dongle, Ideal for Raspberry, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, RTL8188CUS, Plug in and Forget : Electronics

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@Dat_Tran - I placed the above dongle info. into the docs.

Please review →
Update Endpoint/sbc.md with list of reported Wi-Fi dongles by rcmb · Pull Request #753 · ghi-electronics/Documentation (github.com)

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Nice thanks.

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This one works, from amazon.ca:

Edimax Wi-Fi 4 802.11n Adapter for PC - New Version - Wireless N150 Nano USB Adapter Dongle, 150Mbps, Smallest Wi-Fi 4 Dongle, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Black, EW-7811Un V2

I’m not 100% sure, but if it’s not working, try hot swapping it in and out when the board is up and running?

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