On 23/05/2014 12:31, Bianca Gibson wrote:
- reliable under fedora - compact enough I can leave it in at all times, including while transporting the laptop - decent range. My temporary borrowed USB wifi is pretty slow in the corner of the office.
...pick one. ;-) But seriously, if I were you, I would spend more time on sorting out why the Wi-Fi is flaky. Might be that it's missing a proprietary firmware blob or something? The other thing is, most PCs have their internal Wi-Fi in the form of a mini-PCIe card hidden under a panel similar to (if not the same as) the one you would use to replace the RAM. This means the Wi-Fi card is often replaceable. I have a one or two mini-PCIe Wi-Fi cards lying around that I salvaged from otherwise broken PCs that work well in Linux. There are far too many cards that work under Linux to list them all, but you may be able to obtain a card or smashed up laptop off eBay that you can salvage a card from. Down the rabbit hole you go...