'awokd' via qubes-users: > On Wed, January 31, 2018 2:39 pm, jaya...@gmail.com wrote: >> What do you mean it is easy to do? Where do you get a compatible wireless >> card, that is definitely supported by Qubes anyway?
You can purchase them many places online, even Amazon, for example, for about $12 USD. >> I somehow imagined that getting appropriate driver should be simpler :/ > > It's not necessarily a driver issue; more of a Xen (on which Qubes is > based) pass-through issue. Of the subset of wireless NICs that work > problem-free on Linux, there's a smaller subset that Xen can pass-through > problem-free and an even smaller subset that can be passed through a > QEMU/Xen stub-domain (which is what Qubes uses). I think it comes down to > how virtualization friendly the hardware manufacturer laid out their BARs > and MSI pages and whether MSI interrupts work (and who knows, maybe > there's a QEMU or some other bug somewhere in there too). Broadcom wireless in linux has always been a pain. That is because of Broadcom. > I have success with an AR9565 on R4.0 but not an AR928x. If you're going > to be shopping for another wireless card, maybe pick one then search this > mailing list for problem/success reports, or identify which laptops come > with it then search https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ and see if those laptops > are reported problem free with R4.0? I can confirm that an Atheros AR9462 works great on 3.2 and 4.0. If you're open to considering replacing the wifi card, you can email me off-list and I can walk you through it step by step. It really is easy to do, even the first time. > Longer term, I wonder if a section should be added to > https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ specifically to list known > compatible/incompatible network cards under Qubes R4.0? Could be painful > to maintain if we expand it to cover PCI devices in general... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/b1ba1ef0-c15f-7562-1c04-0387197c6d05%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
