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Chromium OS External Wifi Card

by Bobrob7 Feb 25, 2015 3:28AM PST

I recently got my hands on an old Dell Inspiron 640m. It was useless using Windows, and my brother had an eye on the new Chromebooks, but did not want to pay $200. I installed Chromium OS, and it is fast and works fine, but it has an old crappy Wifi card. I have and external that I used to use on my old desktop, but couldn't figure out how to use it with Chromium OS. Does anybody have any ideas for how to use an external Wifi card on Chromium? Thanks in advance!

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Clarification Request

Did you try any WiFi clients?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 26, 2015 7:02AM PST

Here I'm able to get along with either the
Netgear WNCE2001 (or)
TP-Link TL-WR702M (it's client mode.)

Both connected to the Ethernet port.
Bob

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