- Buy this dongle from dealextreme. This dongle works out of the box with Raspbian “wheezy” and needs no additional drivers. The chip is the realtek 8188 chip and works perfectly with linux.
- Edit /etc/networking/interfaces according to the gist below. Replace network name and password with your own:
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| auto lo | |
| iface lo inet loopback | |
| iface eth0 inet dhcp | |
| allow-hotplug wlan0 | |
| #iface wlan0 inet manual | |
| iface wlan0 inet dhcp | |
| wpa-ssid "my_network_name" | |
| wpa-psk "my_password" | |
| #wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf | |
| #iface default inet dhcp |
