what wlan driver to use on a 3 yr.old Pi3B?

[bob prohaska]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 03:54:25PM +0800, wa5qjh wrote:
> I just downloaded and burned to SDHC the new RPi3 12.2-Release and was so happy to see it "wake up"! but I have been trying for hours to get wifi up on it. I even resorted to plugging in 2 external wifi dongles, neither one of which i ever made work. but at least i found rtwn drivers in /boot/kernel. i know the wifi function is woven into the bluetooth controller, but I saw no fathomable (by me) connection to a driver. 


If you have one, a wired-to-wireless Ethernet bridge (Buffalo Airstation
or equivalent) might be worth a try. It's not cost-effective to  buy one, 
but mine worked surprisingly easily with a default snapshot image.  

hth,

bob prohaska