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smanconi
Aspirant
May 20, 2019

Da wifi a LAN

Salve,   sul mio portatile Dell Latitude non funziona più la scheda Wifi. Ho già acquistato una scheda Wifi esterna con collegamento USB ma, avendo Linux, è difficile trovare dei prodotti suppor...
smanconi's avatar
smanconi
Aspirant
May 20, 2019

Thank you for your answer.

Is there any R series router model you would suggest for my purposes?

Sorry for the stupid question: how it works for the wi-fi password and configuration?

I would use this bridging to connect for example to this:

 

https://www.sba.unito.it/it/node/1198

 

so I need to access to advanced configuration options.

Do the public wi-fi will be seen in my laptop as a standard LAN connection, for which probably the configuration options will be different?

 

 

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
May 20, 2019

Most of NGs R series model routers support wireless bridge mode. I have a R7800 and R7960P and both support wireless bridge mode. I believe any R 7xxx and 8xxx series routers supports wireles bridge mode.