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Wi-fi upgrade for Optiplex
My Optiplex 7050 is used as a media machine, used for streaming content to my television. It has a dongle for 2.4 GHz wi-fi, and because our house has 5 GHz wif-available, I'd like to upgrade to that.
Unfortunately, I've bought four different dual-band USB dongles -- all listed as supporting Linux -- but none has been recognized by the Optiplex.
This computer is running fully-updated Siduction Linux, which is based on Debian. I've had the same issue when I was using SolusOS, which is an independent distribution, so I don't believe the OS has anything to do with this.
Any thoughts on how I could get one of these dual-band dongles to work with the Optiplex would be appreciated. Thanks!
redxps630
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January 29th, 2023 06:00
Do you have another pc (desktop or laptop) running Windows 10 you can use to test these dual-band USB dongle?
WetGeek
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January 29th, 2023 10:00
No Windows -- we're 100% Linuxu here. But these dongles are all brand-new, just out of their packages. It's not very likely that any of them is faulty, much less all four of them
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January 29th, 2023 17:00
Yes, I have several other computers, all of them running Linux. It won't help to try the dongles on a laptop, because they have internal wi-fi radios. But I have another Optiplex that's currently using a different Linux distro. It's connected via an Ethernet cable, but I can still see whether it recognizes the dongle.
Thanks for your reply. I'll try that this evening.
redxps630
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January 30th, 2023 16:00
Re: none has been recognized by the Optiplex.
it sounds like a driver issue. go inside device manager of Linux if there is such a thing and look for unknown device with a ?