Anybody successfully used a Wifi USB dongle?

[zzsprade]

I am considering a new small min ITX build for a 2nd Unraid NAS.

 

As such the sole PCI space will likely be taken up for a great number of HDDs.

 

In order to have an alternative access to the Unraid NAS (when the Ethernet is disconnected), I was hoping to utilise a USB wifi dongle. I am hoping not to have to utilised the PCI for a wifi card.

 

Has anyone successfully achieved this?

 

I did a quick search on the forums and the hardware compatibility without much luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Alex

[Johnm]

unraid does not support wifi.

Wired only..

 

that said, you can hook a wifi bridge to your ethernet port and go wireless that way..

[zzsprade]

Johnm,

 

I never realised. Thank you very much for clarifying.

 

-Alex

[tokra]

unraid does not support wifi.

Wired only..

 

that said, you can hook a wifi bridge to your ethernet port and go wireless that way..

 

Why Slackware based Linux does not support Wireless adapter module ? I do not understand, is that any reason for it ?

[pkn]

unraid does not support wifi.

Wired only..

 

that said, you can hook a wifi bridge to your ethernet port and go wireless that way..

 

Why Slackware based Linux does not support Wireless adapter module ? I do not understand, is that any reason for it ?

IMHO, and as I see it... unRAID is not full Slackware distro. Moreover, even the kernel used in unRAID is very minimalistic - most of the drivers needed to support this and that are simply not included.

 

And there is a very valid reason for this minimalism: unRAID is NAS-like product. Any deviation from this model would be a different product.