Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
Have you tried running the Jessie kernel with Stretch? The general aim (at least unofficially) is that you should be able to run a Debian system with a kernel from the previous or the next release.
The Stretch kernel has many new security features. But the benefits of those features to a desktop PC (which you are presumably using as that's the main use case for a USB Wifi device) is smaller than for other situations.
I belive the kernel has to be custom built to work on Raspberry Pi - not sure why. At the moment the effort for me to rebuild a Jessie kernel requires exceeds the effort to plug into and configure the wired network. However thanks for your suggestion. -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/