USB WiFi Device

If you want to connect your board to a WiFi network, but your board doesn’t have built-in WiFi support, you may be able to use a USB WiFi dongle. The standard PYNQ image is based on Ubuntu and includes drivers for a number of popular USB WiFi chipsets.

There are many different brands but most USB WiFi dongles use one of a small number of WiFi chipsets. If the driver for a chipset is installed then the device should work with your board.

The following devices have been tested and work with PYNQ:

Tested USB WiFi devices

Brand	Part number	Driver/Chipset	Link
Edimax Wi-Fi 4 802.11n Adapter	EW-7811Un V2	Ralink 5370	https://www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/global/wireless_adapters_n150/ew-7811un_v2/
CanaKit Raspberry Pi WiFi	Wireless Adapter/Dongle (802.11 n/g/b 150 Mbps)	Ralink 5370	https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-wifi.html
TP-Link	TL-WN323N	rtl8xxxu	https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wn823n/
TP-Link	TL-WN723N	rtl8192cu	https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wn723n/

If you have another USB WiFi device that doesn’t work with PYNQ you can post a question on the PYNQ support forum requesting help to install the driver.

Plug in your device and run the following command to check if it is detected:

lsusb -t

Include this information in your post on the support forum.

If you have successfully used another USB WiFi device that isn’t listed on this page, you can open a pull request to add it or open an issue on the PYNQ GitHub asking for it to be added.