The vendor definition of "works" often seems to be it connected to the network and it pinged when they tested it.
Their testing often says nothing about testing for more than a few minutes and/or if the device is stable and continues to work for days. The RealTek m2 adapters are tested, and have drivers in the kernel and "works" with linux. But randomly drops off the network and/or gets uselessly slow. I determined that with 2 different laptops with 2 different physical cards 6 years apart. And you also have the problem that usb physical connections are kind of unreliable for long term use. And the unhandled alg is not your issue that is simply informing you that some feature(that may not matter at all) does not work right on linux. You would need the rest of the messages from when it stops working. On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM Tim via users <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 12:16 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Under windows it has a driver that is supplied with the dongle. > > Asking the obvious question: Does it work as expected with Windows, > and the same WiFi access-point/router? > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 > (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
