If you hate seeing good electronic parts go to waste, then you likely look for ways to incorporate them into other devices or have them serve as accessories of some kind. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post offers some helpful advice to a curious reader.

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.

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The Question

SuperUser reader robertalrp wants to know if a native wireless adapter can be converted Into a dongle:

Can a native wireless adapter be converted Into a dongle?

Are there any methods for converting an internal wireless adapter into an external one?

The Answer

SuperUser contributors codenoire and Keltari have the answer for us. First up, codenoire:

Followed by the answer from Keltari:

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