Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread gene heskett
On 6/6/23 09:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 09:33:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] My trusty search engine finds that it did indeed make it into 5.16 - but it does need non-free firmware: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89 https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89#Firmware

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:46:53 +0200 daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote: > Hello > > On 2023-06-05 22:49, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I believe that there are at least some 11ac cards supported by the > >> vanilla kernel and open source firmware: > >> > >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Driver

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread davenull
Hello On 2023-06-05 22:49, Stefan Monnier wrote: I believe that there are at least some 11ac cards supported by the vanilla kernel and open source firmware: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware Oh so the Fre

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 06/06/2023 13:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of course, that there are *virtually* no modern WiF

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 09:33:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > My trusty search engine finds that it did indeed make it into 5.16 - but > it does need non-free firmware: > > https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89 > https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Rtw89#Firmware Thanks for completing. So free dri

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:52:24 +0200 wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's > > statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of > > course, that there are *virtually

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's > statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basically correct, of > course, that there are *virtually* no modern WiFi cards of any sort > that are supported b

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 12:14:50 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:51:21 -0400 > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > The best option is to buy one that says clearly that it works with > > > the vanilla kernel and without requiring pro

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread debian-user
Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:51:21 -0400 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > ... > > > The best option is to buy one that says clearly that it works with > > the vanilla kernel and without requiring proprietary firmware blobs. > > These are hard to come by and will usually be sold by comp

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I believe that there are at least some 11ac cards supported by the > vanilla kernel and open source firmware: > > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware Oh so the Free ath10k firmwares have now grown support fo

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:51:21 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: ... > The best option is to buy one that says clearly that it works with the > vanilla kernel and without requiring proprietary firmware blobs. > These are hard to come by and will usually be sold by companies > specializing in this marke

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the hardware(usb) > has debian support? That's tricky: - It's fairly frequent that manufacturers change the underlying hardware without changing the product name (presumably because they find that some other wifi chipset provides the s

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 21:56:03 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I can suggest that you should avoid the ASUS USB-N 13 > Adapter Wireless-N300. This, in spite of the claim of Linux support on > the box. I retract this for Bookworm. It appears to be running just fine on my i386 Lenovo R51 running Bookwo

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Leandro Noferini
Ciao a tutti, I am using BrosTrend Ac1200 and it works fine.

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 21:52:28 -0300 Rodrigo Cunha wrote: > I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the > hardware(usb) has debian support? 0) Try it. 1) Search on the name of the device and the word "linux". 2) Each USB device has a unique identifier, eight hexidecimal characters

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-04 Thread hlyg
On 6/5/23 08:52, Rodrigo Cunha wrote: Hi all, I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the hardware(usb) has debian support? you can ask sellers if their wifi adapters are linux compatible at my local market, only a few products have label "linux compatible", nearly all su

Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-04 Thread Rodrigo Cunha
Hi all, I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the hardware(usb) has debian support? -- Atenciosamente, Rodrigo da Silva Cunha São Gonçalo, RJ - Brasil