06-14-2017, 02:28 AM
Within past 2 years, bought new, works out of the box with LL 3.4, the only peripheral hardware within those categories that I have is a wireless network router. Does that count? If so, it's a Netgear Model C6300.
It worked fine with my LL out of the box. It was also recognized by LL live media without mods. To clarify, I had set up this router back when I was using Windows (still sometime in the last 2 years). So, I haven't had experience setting up this router with a pre-existing Linux computer, but once the router was there and after switching to Linux, my new Linux system recognized it. In other words, if you brought a LL 3.4 laptop from elsewhere into our home, it would have no trouble connecting to our internet through this router, no modifications needed anywhere.
The only thing I would caution people considering purchasing this router is that it comes with a pre-set factory default password (which is easy to crack). So, make sure when you're first setting up the router that you change this password - it's not hard to do; there are some setup instructions on the router. An easy test if you have a mobile phone (at least on Android) is to run Avast's mobile antivirus to check your wireless router. Avast mobile will warn you if the router has an easy to crack password. Conversely, you should get a 'green light' when running the Avast after you change the router password. So if you plan to use this router, just make sure one of the first things you do is to change the password to something other than the factory default. The router performs flawlessly though, and you can have a lot of control over it - if you wish, you can even specify which device ID's you allow and disallow to connect to your Wi-Fi from it.
It worked fine with my LL out of the box. It was also recognized by LL live media without mods. To clarify, I had set up this router back when I was using Windows (still sometime in the last 2 years). So, I haven't had experience setting up this router with a pre-existing Linux computer, but once the router was there and after switching to Linux, my new Linux system recognized it. In other words, if you brought a LL 3.4 laptop from elsewhere into our home, it would have no trouble connecting to our internet through this router, no modifications needed anywhere.
The only thing I would caution people considering purchasing this router is that it comes with a pre-set factory default password (which is easy to crack). So, make sure when you're first setting up the router that you change this password - it's not hard to do; there are some setup instructions on the router. An easy test if you have a mobile phone (at least on Android) is to run Avast's mobile antivirus to check your wireless router. Avast mobile will warn you if the router has an easy to crack password. Conversely, you should get a 'green light' when running the Avast after you change the router password. So if you plan to use this router, just make sure one of the first things you do is to change the password to something other than the factory default. The router performs flawlessly though, and you can have a lot of control over it - if you wish, you can even specify which device ID's you allow and disallow to connect to your Wi-Fi from it.
Using Linux Lite for everything now. I put it on my desktop and my laptop. Woohoo!