Thank you very much, this solved my problem! I was changing things hundreds of times with no avail, luckily some laser-precise google search managed to find this blesses thread

Thank you very much, this solved my problem! I was changing things hundreds of times with no avail, luckily some laser-precise google search managed to find this blesses thread

Small Update: at the list of non-working wifi dongles I can add:

Generic chinese dongle (RL7601 chipset)
D-Link DWA182 ver D1 (RTL8812BU chipset)

@NounLoul Unluckily i had the same issue, but it seems like the list isn't really old. Most of the wifi dongles aren't implemented, and the ones listed there are the ones that are sure to work (or not work)

For the chipset RTL8192EU for example there is still a work in progress in being added to the compatibile ones, as the RTL8xxx series of dongles are the most common nowadays.

Only solution so far is looking for an old but still obtainable RT5370 wifi dongle.

@acris Thank you. I guess with my current skillset i can only wait.

Hello to everyone. I've been using Recalbox for quite some time on my RPi3B, but recently I decided to try it out on an old PC I had laying around, a Dell Optiplex 990 USFF.

This system works perfectly, but because it has no integrated WiFi installed I tried connecting it with some USB wifi dongles.

The problem is that all the 3 wifi dongles i could try, some of them don't work at all, some have very low speeds, others have inconsistent connection.

So far I tested

D-Link DWA-131 hw ver: E1, fw ver: 5.10 (Realtek RTL8192EU)
TP-Link TL-WN725N (Realtek RTL8188CUS)
Hamlet HNWU300N (Realtek RTL8192EU)

I remember having issues with another dongle on my main PC with LinuxMint 19.3, a D-Link DWA182 D2 (Realtek RTL8812BU), of which i could build and install a set of drivers for the rtl88x2bu and made it work.

Is there a way to install compatible drivers for the dongles i have? Or i'm better off using an ethernet cable just when i need to move stuff in and out of the system?