ProtoDAC TDA1387 X8 project

[varunach]

I usually just use the Pi integrated WiFi adapters which are pretty good. For the Pi's w/o built in adapters or w/o 5GHz band I've been using the excellent Comfast CF-912AC adapters but they only work with our custom compiled driver and I'm not sure if then are even available anymore (maybe AliExpress). Also not sure the driver will even compile correctly for our upcoming Bookworm release.

Generally 3rd party WiFi adapter support on Linux is not that great. A lot of vendors claim their adapters are compatible with this or that Linux OS but in reality what they mean by compatibility is that you need to drop to the command line to manually install a kernel version-specific driver from some website using some sort of script and hope it works. Then if you update your kernel it all breaks.

Maybe there is some sort of up to date list of known to work WiFi adapters? In any case when buying one make sure you can do an unconditional return.

ETA: @varunach, MoodeOS is built using pi-gen the same tooling used to build the official Raspberry Pi OS and we use their shipped Linux kernel and thus in theory any WiFi adapter that works on a given release of Raspberry Pi OS  and its kernel will work on the corresponding release of moOde.

@Tim Curtis here is link to that list widely recommended by RPi community - https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi?tab=readme-ov-file and this https://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters

Looks like a great resource, you might want to link to somewhere in your Moode wiki/documentation, might help folks in a similar situation.