What do you mean it is easy to do? Where do you get a compatible wireless card, 
that is definitely supported by Qubes anyway?

I somehow imagined that getting appropriate driver should be simpler :/


On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 3:33:23 PM UTC+4, bobos wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 8:47:28 AM UTC+1, jay...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I decided to try Qubes OS 4 on my XPS 9350 laptop, from USB drive. Mostly 
> > it went ok (had to manually specify EFI file in BIOS to make it load), but 
> > networking is completely unavailable. I think the reason might be that 
> > laptop itself doesn't have ethernet adapter - it connect via a dock station 
> > (which has). I believe something has to be fixed somewhere to enable it? 
> > The dock station itself seems to be recognized somehow, since I have double 
> > external monitors connected to it and QubesOS properly spread over all 
> > three (one  of the laptop and two external).
> > 
> > I see networking icon in the system tray. But it is red with a cross in the 
> > lower right corner and when I click on it it says Ethernet Network "device 
> > not managed". What does it mean?
> > 
> > Laptop also has wireless Broadcom Limited BCM4350 [14e4:43a3] network 
> > controller, however from dmesg I see that:
> > 
> > brcmfmac: brcmf_chip_recognition: SB chip is not supported
> > brcmfmac: brcmf_pcie_probe: failed 14e4:43a3
> > 
> > ...so it probably is not supported.
> > 
> > Is there anything I can do in either direction to obtain networking in my 
> > Qubes OS 4 on this platform?
> 
> 
> 
> change your wireless card, I did the same with my XPS.
> works now.
> 
> its easy to do.

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