Recommend a wifi dongle for access point setup

[Wrechid]

heres my current ifconfig:

Quote:eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:2b:1d:19
inet addr:192.168.2.215 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15321 (14.9 KiB) TX bytes:18238 (17.8 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1104 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1104 (1.0 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:1f:02:34:30:f5
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

i'm not sure about the firmware, can you point me in that direction...?

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ok, just looked into firmware updating, and no... i've never updated the firmware... i've seen it mentioned in many different cases but firmware on different devices can be risky, so i avoided it till it restricted me from my projects... looking into updating the firmware there seems to be many different methods... which way do you recommend...?