The Wifi mini dongle hit list - see #18 #19 #25 for example

[patrickmmartin]

Given the awkwardness of cables / bluetooth / full sized dongles, it would be a very good thing to have support for more Wifi dongle types in an official build.

I have recently purchased" yet another" mini Wifi Dongle - the Editmax EW-7811Un

lsusb on my 64-bit Debian machines gives me:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

I have downloaded the .bin from the location noted in #25
https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/EV3+EDIMAX+EW-7811Un
and this worked fine. It's a massive difference.

Having looked at the code changes, I think we could perhaps improve them to

• either employ a configuration based list of supported devices
• choose the "best 3" and simply bundle support for those into the code

I've been too lazy^H^H^H^Hbusy to delve into how to build a full .bin file as per the link, but let me offer my services to code up a solution and to test on the dongles I do have.
Where I could do with some guidance is how you would prefer to implement updates to the lms code and how to deliver any new required chipset drivers .