On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 5:37:04 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 03/28/2018 05:02 PM, Ringo wrote: > > Greetings. I have a Purism 15v3 laptop with an Atheros AR9462 wi-fi card. > > The card works under Qubes but it's slow, with bit-rate of only 6/mpbs. I > > had this issue before, on the same laptop when it was first shipped with > > the PureOS distribution (a debian distribution) and was able to fix it by > > installing a firmware package found at > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-atheros. However, I'm not > > able to install this same "firmware driver" under Qubes, since it's in > > debian format and not fedora. > > > > I downloaded a tool called "alien" which was able to convert the package > > into RPM format but then when I tried to install it using DNF in the > > SYS-NET cube, I received an error saying > > "firmware-atheros-20170823-2.noarch" conflicts with package > > linux-firmware-201771215-82.git2451bb.fc26.noarch. > > > > I'm thinking perhaps I should uninstall this conflicting package in order > > to install the atheros one that I know worked under PureOS, but frankly, > > I'm a bit out of my depth at this point and wondering if this makes sense > > to you all or might have other advice. Appreciate any thoughts you may > > have to assist. > > > > Warm Regards, Ringo > > > > I'd suggest using a Debian template for your sys-net; It takes time to > download but its fairly simple. You may want to try using the > Debian-supplied firmware first to see if that resolves the issue: > > sudo apt-get install firmware-atheros > > If that's not new enough you can follow Debian directions for installing > from a newer repository (e.g. Buster).
Thanks for the tip. That's a great workaround. Impressive aspect of Qubes is that is makes a solution like this so simply. Of course, now I need to learn more about how to setup different sys-net and stuff like that but it's great to have such flexibility in the OS. This is really powerful. Thanks! > > -- > > Chris Laprise, [email protected] > https://github.com/tasket > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ba92c34a-7d74-4429-bd9f-e2d2a325955e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
