On Sunday, March 29, 2020 08:50:11 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-03-28 17:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > To clarifly / amplify -- I don't think it is going to be worth the > > trouble to try to make it (the Wavlink) work. > > Well, that's no fun. :-(
;-) > I have found that it is often difficult to determine if some hardware > accessory is going to work on some computer with Debian by RTFM and STFW > alone. Ultimate, you have to "walk the walk", install it, and see what > happens. Sometimes it just works OOTB. Other times, you need to do > some trouble-shooting. In the latter case, dmesg and a good search > engine get the job done. If not, this mailing list is a good fall-back. > If you can find an error message and identify which package is > generating it, you can file a bug report. At the moment, I just feel too old to bother with that. ;-( And, as I mention below, I don't expect to have many meetings in the near future that would require undocking my machine (from my KVM setup). > Have you identified a make and model laptop and a make and model docking > station that are known to work with your chosen release of Debian? No. I use Wheezy in my everyday driver, but that won't work for the programming I want to do -- it needs something like GCC 7.<something>, so I installed Buster on the laptop which does have GCC 8. For now, I'll just use the Inspiron without a docking station -- I don't expect to have many (in person) meetings available to get help with my program at this point in time. When things change, I may look for an inexpensive (possibly used) laptop with a USB C port, which I think should give me a good chance at getting a docking station to work. Thanks for your interest -- have a good day, and stay healthy!
