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Quick way to switch to a USB WiFi adaptor on your Raspberry Pi

I wrote a long winded guide to this in a previous post, but I've since though of a better way if you already have you onboard WiFi adaptor connected to your network. You also don't need an ethernet connection and can be running headless, simply head over to this directory: cd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections ls -l you should   more »

How to switch your WiFi connection to a USB WiFi adaptor on your Raspberry Pi

Update There's a quicker way if you are running headless and/or already have your Pi connected via WiFi Recently been researching USB WiFi adaptors a for my Pi3 given I just installed a PCIe Intel 8290 on my Lenovo Thinkstation M93a and I'm getting a whopping 780Mb/s connection through my WiFi broadband router. I'm also running out of ethernet   more »

Dell OptiPlex 3060 SFF's WiFi isn't BIOS whitelisted

After jumping on the obligatory cheap PC / Linux server bandwagon, I was looking into the obligatory WiFi install. I was initially concerned I was going to have to pay through the tooth for an OEM version of the of the card. There seems to be a lot of chat on the interwebs of there being some BIOS locking involved restricting use to a few cards.   more »

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