WiFi Adapters on M-Series Macs

Built-in Wi-Fi on M-series Macs supports 802.11ax with two antennas. Wi-Fi 6 (which simply ads the 6GHz band, and is otherwise identical) is also available on most models.

USB plug-in models died after Catalina, when Drivers were required to be 64-bit. We found ONE solution here -- you could attach an Ethernet adapter, then adapt that to Fi-FI, but the total price as well over US$100, to add on a for copy of feature that MacBook Pro has built in.

if you think you need an additional Wi-Fi adapter, please provide details and readers will try to talk you down off that ledge.

You mean like this?

USB WiFi adapter that works with M1 Mac - Apple Community

I have no idea how accurate the claims in this thread are.

If external Wi-Fi adapters need drivers (so you can select a network and enter a password), the issue may be that Apple has been getting rid of kernel extensions in favor of other methods that grant system extensions less direct access to the system. If there are no system extension APIs suitable for external Wi-Fi adapters, or if vendors have not updated their products to use the new APIs, that could be the source of the claim about the adapters not working with M-series Macs.

take a look at this previous discussion. I initially dismissed the query and provided a link to a whole raft of adapters, but on closer examination, none has current Drivers for Mac. Later I found an adapter combination that had some hope of working:

MacBook Pro 2019 16" Wifi card is dead, a… - Apple Community

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1203432-REG/iogear_gwu637_ethernet_2_wifi_universal_wireless_adapter.html/specs

specs list all sorts of older encryptions, but NOT WPS.

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I have not seen anything one way or another with regards to external Wi-Fi adapters.

As far as I know, all M-series Macs to date have featured built-in Wi-Fi.

Why are you trying to use Wi-Fi Protected Setup between the video game console and your Mac, rather than between the video game console and your Wi-Fi access point / router?