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I have two Raspberry Pis

  • RP B+ running Raspbian
  • RP 2 running Windows 10 IoT Core

I have a Vilros USB WiFi adapter (details here) that works in Raspbian but not in Windows 10 IoT Core.

In Raspbian the adpater has a blue light when connected. I do not see this in Win 10 IoT Core.

Has anyone used any success with a Vilros Adapter, or any other WiFi adapters (other than the recommended official Pi Wifi Adapter) on Windows 10 IoT Core?

UPDATE 29/02/2016

With the release of Raspberry Pi 3 (with integrated WiFi) this conversation may well become moot.

techraf
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Mark Cooper
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The official RPF Dongle uses the Broadcom BCM43143 Chipset.

The official dongle will work. If you don't have the official dongle but your dongle is based on the Broadcom BCM43143 chipset it might work. If it is based on anything else it will not work.

joan
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I can confirm that as of build 10586, the TP-LINK TL-WN725N is now working!

Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008IFXQFU

Steve In CO
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Here is the official Microsoft list of supported WiFi dongles.

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/SupportedInterfaces.htm#WiFi-Dongles

(also lists other supportd devices)

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From: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/12/03/whats-new-for-windows-10-iot-this-fall/

Another common request we have seen is to support additional Wi-Fi dongles. In this release, we not only support the official Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi dongle, but also two Realtek Wi-Fi chipsets (RTL8188EU & RTL8192EU). These chipsets are included in dongles like the TP-LINK TL_WN725N, along with several other dongles. This makes connecting your Windows 10 IoT Core device to the net much easier.

For example;

Mark Cooper
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In fact the official Microsoft list is not clear enough. Playing with RPi2 and 10.0.10586, I tried several dongles that should be working but that didn't.

I have an "official" WiPi dongle for my old RPi B+ that dont work.

I tried a Realtek 8191SU WLAN adapter that didn't work. The official list says 8191 is recognized but don't tell much about suffix letters.

I tried a Realtek 8192CU WLAN Adapter. Yet, 8192 is good for the list but not for the Win 10 IoT.

When we buy a dongle, we don't really know the exact flavor of the chipset that is used. Unfortunately, the chipset variant seems to be important. So buying a Wifi dongle looks like playing lottery. Perhaps the right answer will come from dongle makers like EDIMAX that releases drivers for its dongles on RPi2 Win10 IoT!

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