I finally decided to start a spreadsheet. The rows were initially populated by items at Best Buy and then I added chipset information. I can then use that to look up hostapd compatiblity, probably.
And whose terrible idea was it to reuse model numbers for products with completely different chipsets?
Dumbest idea ever.
Wow, there are way too many Realtek chipsets out there...
I was looking for a new 1Gb ethernet adapter for my home system, but I could not find anything that just said "Works in Ubuntu" or anything like that. Turns out, I only needed to perform a full power cycle of my system.
I feel like they should have a test or something, where they ask you questions that can't really be answered through a search, and if you pass it you get the bootloader unlock
@NathanOsman Ah. A friend of mine that I just talked to that uses the Pis all the time said that if the CSI bus was used for that, it couldn't do anything else.
@Zacharee1 That would be a great idea instead of seeing so many posts of Oops, I bricked my phone.
I have a 300N (300Mbps) Game adapter, but goes to 100Mb ethernet connection. I guess it works OK, but chokes still. That USB adapter you showed is a much better idea. :)