Panda Wireless® PAU0A AC600 Dual Band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wireless AC USB Adapter - Win 7/8/10/11, Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, MX Linux, Manjaro, Fedora, Rocky, Kali Linux and Raspbian

Best news is, the Panda Wireless® PAU0A AC600 arrived the next day. Bad news is, no instructions on installing on a Linux system. Guess they just assume we all know what we are doing. Tried the plug and play. Maybe it worked. Let me explain. Looks like there is a light on the Panda Wireless. Don’t know. No light came on. So I searched the Internet for Instructions. Nothing much on the Panda website. Does have a download for the driver. A set of instructions but the terminal comes back with files and directories do not exist lines.Tried the CD that was no help. It refused to open. Then onto the Internet again. Found some instructions along the lines of plug and play. Instructions said lower right, choose network. Mine is on the top right. Pull down for the battery, sound, power, restart, and power down. Which also has a WIFI option that now shows (2). Clicked on that and my WIFI network is now listed twice. Went over to settings where is now shows my laptop adapter and the MediaTek WIFI which is the Panda. Now I can switch between the 2.I opened a WIFI speed test. On both it hit a 1 time high of 90Mbps and usually between 10-20Mbps. Really poor. Tried 4 different browsers. All the same results. Upload is 10-20Mbps.I also tried my phone which hit a consistent 90Mbps. So what’s the problem with the speed? Not sure.The problem I was facing is with a Lenovo IdeaPad with the AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700U with Radeon™ Vega Mobile Gfx. It kept on disconnecting and I had to open WIFI and reconnect. You can find info on WIFI driver updates for other processors, but AMD does not offer a driver for Linux. Keep that in mind when ordering a new laptop.The good news is the Panda does work. The speed on the laptop is something internal. Good enough for what I do with a few hang ups. WIFI lingers between starting fast and at times hangs up. I am sure it is the laptop. The Panda appears fine. I would buy it again.The PAU0A AC600 is compact and does not stick out of the side much more than the mouse USB. Which is nice.After a few hours the Panda is not disconnecting every few minutes like the Lenovo did. I call that a success.

Works on my raspberry pi zero 2 w. It is plug and play and I did not have to install any drivers. I am on os version bookworm.I used the Raspberry Pi Imager from the raspberry pi website which asked me for the wifi password while writing to the sd card. Once I booted my pi and plugged this wifi adapter.I rannmclito see the devices. I saw wlan0 was the default and my wifi adapter was wlan1Then I rannmcli con showand saw preconfigured was assigned to wlan0. This is where the credentials are stored, not sure.To change to wlan1, runnmcli connection modify preconfigured connection.interface-name wlan1and then runsudo rebootto restart and when your pi boots up, it should use the wifi adapter.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS works out of the box, plug and play, no driver build needed. Immediately recognized within seconds could connect. Highly recommend...will take some time on quality and stability and repost but using on second floor of house, RAX29 Nighthawk is on first floor. 80 Mb/sec download could be better but this is likely ranging and power issue. Homelab PC without wifi built in so I just wanted to add wifi usb without hassle. The Panda has Mediatek chipset...important! Most of the other USB Wifi that work / don't work on Linux need driver building which is ok but not for novice to try and also chipset implementation and driver release which is so hit and miss because Realtek chipset is terrible. No development on this. Commits on Github and although fine driver...meh...I just want the thing to work and not go down the rabbit hole to config. I sent back two TP-Link to get here.

Fantastic!!! I have an old Raspberry Pi 2 B (it doesn't have wi-fi built in). I bought two of these to turn my Pi into a RaspAP to use as a travel router with WireGuard VPN. These were plug and play, I didn't have to download any drivers, I just plugged them in and the Pi recognized them both. Speed with 5 plus 2.4 wifi bands was great. I highly recommend these for their cost and ease of connectivity.

This wifi dongle is on a Jetson device with a Linux 4.9 kernel. Got the latest tarball from the Panda website and successfully built the drivers for it. Spent more time than I should have troubleshooting why it was not connecting the 5G radio and sometimes after connecting it would not stay long and would disconnect. The top advice on the web is weak signal if a wifi device behaves in this manner. I could not believe this to be case because the wireless router was in the next room separated by two back to back closets. Other devices in this same room have no problem and in fact some are much further away. Finally I moved the Jetson to the router's room and put it 2 feet away from the router. Now it works fine. Running:nmcli -f SSID,BSSID,CHAN,FREQ,RATE,ACTIVE,SIGNAL,BARS,SECURITY,DEVICE dev wifi listproduced:SSID BSSID CHAN FREQ RATE ACTIVE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY DEVICEAtHome_5G D4:6E:0E:8C:E8:E6 36 5180 MHz 270 Mbit/s yes 75 ▂▄▆_ WPA2 ra0The signal strength should be around 100, not 75. I recommend to NOT buy this device. Ridiculously weak signal reception.