> No guarantee, but in my experience, WiFi "just works" in Debian Squeeze
> and Jessie.
That was more or less true back in the 11n days. Nowadays we're back to
having trouble: most chipset have some kind of support, but many of them
have support that's not integrated in the kernel, i.e. you need to
compile the kernel module separately, and it only works for some
versions of the kernel and there's no guarantee that it'll still work
5 years from now.
If you search the web for comments about using those Asus 11ac dongles
it seems they don't "just work".
Stefan
