On 24/04/2025 at 15:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-04-24):
However wouldn't it be desirable to mark wifi 7 controllers as
unsupported in netcfg and in the installation guide in order to limit
user frustration ?
If we can easily spot unsupported cards and not offer them at all
(ignore entirely, with explicit log lines in syslog?) and also document
that in the installation guide, that'd be nice to have. Best if that can
land in 13.0; OK if that lands in 13.n, n>0. (Until support comes along
and is considered for a possible backport as detailed above.)
Unsupported wireless interface detection could use nl80211 (not trivial,
link with libnl) or try to use some heuristics based on information
available in sysfs, maybe something like:
if /sys/class/net/$[interface}/wireless exists
or /sys/class/net/$[interface}/uevent contains "DEVTYPE=wlan"
or /sys/class/net/$[interface}/type = "801" (802.11)
Lennart or Marcin, can you check if any of these conditions match your
Wi-Fi 7 interface ?
On the user interface side, what would be best ?
- Silently ignore unsupported interfaces ? (but the user may wonder why
the interface is not showing)
- Or warn the user that the wireless interface is not supported yet ?
(with a new debconf template, implies translation effort).
