Tumbleweed and wifi hardware

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Good evening everyone from Italy.
As per the title, after 8 months of Linux (I tried at least one 30 distro) in the end I always returned to TW openSUSE. I am so obsessed with this distro that I ended up having 6 in my vm (with different desktops) and one in my laptop. My old Acer 6293 has a power supply problem and at this point I may have to scrap it. During my tests I often had problems with a USB/wifi card with a Realtek chip. Sometimes some distros no longer even recognized the internal Intel 5300 wifi. I have several proposals for laptops with a larger screen than my Acer (12”) that I am evaluating. Are there any wifi chips that I should avoid and others that are recommended when choosing a laptop dedicated to TW? Having the need to use it for work, which I attempted with Fedora and failed (with each new kernel it no longer recognized my wifi), I would like hardware without compatibility problems. I am no longer old enough or have the time to learn how to manually install the drivers that manufacturers only release for Ubuntu and various Debians.
Thank you in advance.
Goodnight from Mauro

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Which one?

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Tp-link Archer T2U V3 and and other dongles always lend Realtek chips.

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The ID is the important thing, not the Name.

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For example after
hwinfo --netcard

Model: "TP-Link 802.11ac WLAN Adapter"
  Hotplug: USB
  Vendor: usb 0x2357 "TP-Link"
  Device: usb 0x011f "802.11ac WLAN Adapter"
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Hello Saurland.
Thans for help.
The system doesn’t detect the dongle at all. What made me think was that even the old internal Intel 5300 wifi often, with every kernel change, with Fedora, was not recognized and I had to restore a snapshot to work on it again…

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Thats also in Tumbleweed, it depends on the Kernel or firmware…

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Now unfortunately I have to put my children to bed. So forgive my absence. I’ll revisit the topic tomorrow. Thanks again. mauro

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I apologize for the delay.
For one of my needs I would need updated software. I tried Leap but it has too old software. Is the use of openSUSE Leap essential for older hardware?

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no.

But if you search the openSUSE bugzilla, there are often problems with intel wifi.

So put in a dongle and post
lsusb

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Thank you very much

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I use a pcie 1X, wifi 6, bluetooth 5.3 card with Intel chip AX210 with success.

You can also find a M.2 card with Intel chip AX210.

I also used a dongle VILROS :

ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter

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