On 2015-11-03, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Just a thought, have you considered just replacing the internal wireless
>> card? As far as I can tell, it's a regular Mini-PCI-E card and should be
>> accessible under a flap on the bottom of the laptop. Something like an Intel
>> 7260 should work nicely. 8
> Just a thought, have you considered just replacing the internal wireless
> card? As far as I can tell, it's a regular Mini-PCI-E card and should be
> accessible under a flap on the bottom of the laptop. Something like an Intel
> 7260 should work nicely. 802.11a/b/g/n/ac plus Bluetooth 4.0 and it
On 10/29/2015 11:32 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
Just a thought, have you considered just replacing the internal
wireless card? As far as I can tell, it's a regular Mini-PCI-E card
and should be accessible under a flap on the bottom of the laptop.
Something like an Intel 7260 should work nicely. 802
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:53:10 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell
wrote:
> It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use
> archlinux to install it and get it up and running.
It doesn't matter what distribution of GNU/Linux you use- if there is no free
firmware available for the devi
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:34:47 -0400, Doug wrote:
> (If anybody know of such, please let me know! I am not averse to paying
> for it, if it is reasonable.)
I was talking about software that is free as in freedom, not as in price. Libre
software, if you will.
https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free
> No guarantee, but in my experience, WiFi "just works" in Debian Squeeze
> and Jessie.
That was more or less true back in the 11n days. Nowadays we're back to
having trouble: most chipset have some kind of support, but many of them
have support that's not integrated in the kernel, i.e. you need
On 10/29/2015 11:21 AM, Doug wrote:
I don't know why you'd spend anything extra for USB3--your old Dell
doesn't support that, and if you get a new laptop, the wifi will be
built-in and working. The little $6 adapter that I mentioned
earlier worked fine with PCLinuxOS for the short distance that
nable
network-string-returned-by-netctl-list. On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Doug wrote:
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:34:47
From: Doug
To: moxalt , debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter
Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:35:07 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On
: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:43 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my
raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2
I have something similar, quite like the possibility to use an
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote:
> > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band
> > > -usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb
> > >
> > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adap
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote:
> > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band
> > -usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb
> >
> > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapt
> > er-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
> >
> > https://www.thinkpenguin.co
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:03:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB
"stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general.
Since I have nothing now I'd j
On 10/29/2015 08:39 AM, Tim McDonough wrote:
/snip/
I like the idea of fixing my problem with an external adapter that is supported
by free software. Also, the attraction of getting an adapter that supports USB
3.0 and the newer WiFi specifications/modes is attractive. I'm not opposed to
sp
On Thu, October 29, 2015 10:34 am, Doug wrote:
> A few months ago I bought a Pyle surveilance-type camera. Supposed to
> be controllable by wireless from the computer. When I got it, I discovered
> it only has drivers for Windows.
I said, "commonly used." Either "surveillance" or "controllable b
On 10/29/2015 02:59 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
>
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireless_ac1200_db.html
>
> Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux?
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:43 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my
> raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed.
>
> www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2
I have something similar, quite like the possibility to use an external
antenna.
But it
On 10/29/2015 04:50 AM, moxalt wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:34 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
It seems to me that with respect to Wi-Fi, Debian has progressed beyond
the state in which one needs to overly cautious regarding compatibility.
And I think that the same can be said of web ca
This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my raspbian
Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty
by close application thereto, it is worse executed by t
On 10/28/2015 8:22 PM, Doug wrote:
Are you sure you can't get a replacement part for your laptop? Taking
it apart and replacing the WIFI unit would be a pain, but would
probably work the best,
assuming that you can get the proper driver for it. I eventually got a
driver to work with my old Dell
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:34 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> It seems to me that with respect to Wi-Fi, Debian has progressed beyond
> the state in which one needs to overly cautious regarding compatibility.
> And I think that the same can be said of web cams. Nowadays, most
> commonly used
On Thu, October 29, 2015 12:05 am, moxalt wrote:
> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-a
> dapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb
>
> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu
> -linux-tpe-n150usb
>
> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/pe
On 10/29/2015 01:05 AM, moxalt wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:03:10 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick"
type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in gener
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:03:10 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
> The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
> internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick"
> type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I
> have nothing now I'd
On 10/28/2015 9:15 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_
wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles
s_ac1200_d
On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_
>> wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
>
>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles
>> s_ac1200_db.html
>
> Any word on how well they work
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireless_ac1200_db.html
Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux? E.g. is the driver fully
supported in the mainline kern
On Wed, October 28, 2015 1:46 pm, Doug wrote:
> I recently bought an adapter fro an old Dell that I couldn't get the
> Broadcom driver to work on. The adapter hardly stuck out above the
> surface where the USB port was. It worked, but it had very limited range.
The antennas on WiFi routers typical
On Wed, October 28, 2015 3:03 pm, Tim McDonough wrote:
> The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
> internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick"
> type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I
> have nothing now I'd just a
On 10/28/2015 04:03 PM, Tim McDonough wrote:
The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter.
I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well
with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd just as soon get
El 28/10/15 a las 14:03, Tim McDonough escribió:
The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick"
type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I
have nothing now I'd just as soon get
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 15:03 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
> The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken
> internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB
> "stick"
> type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since
> I
> have nothing now I'
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