Self Installing Wireless Dongle?

Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

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I'm looking for a 'driverless' wireless dongle as it'll come in handy for when I need to quickly connect new builds to the network. Ideally it'd need to support both Windows and Linux.

Does anyone have any recommendations, I've been trawling through websites but can't find any that explicitly say that they will self install without a CD.
 
I'm not sure if you can find a true driverless device like this as to work they generally need drivers.

Your best best would be getting one that you know Windows and Linux ships with the drivers already installed.
 
I think that it will be hard to get this dude without a driver install, you will need to check wireless drivers installed already within Windows, but I dont think that there are many if any.

Stelly
 
Your best bet (assuming you won't be leaving it behind after you finish), might be something like a wireless access point (or router set up as access point/range extender**) that you could connect to the machines via their wired NIC's.

As most wired cards seem to be supported by modern OS's out of the box, and it would work for what you want.


*I can't remember if that's the right term

**IIRC Sveasoft and DD-WRT lets you do this with some cheap routers.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
I know they're not actually driverless, I thought there might be some out there that carry the drivers on an internal bit of memory, in the same way that the mobile dongles do.
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there is/was, I've got a zyxel wireless g one here that has the drivers built in but it only works on xp....
 
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