Hi hal, Haines, hal writes:
> On 9/21/21 16:34, Haines Brown wrote: >> I'm looking at a Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Elite motherboard. One version of >> this motherbard (designated Ax) is "wifi-enabled". It also supports >> bluetooth I suppose this means that the NIC is on the board. I have no >> reason to think this would be useful under Linux. Am I wrong? > > The Wi-Fi chip on that board appears to be an Intel 6E with Bluetooth > 5.2 integrated on the chipset. There appears to be a wired LAN port as > well. You might be able to use either, or both. > >> It also supports bluetooth, but I've no idea what is the use of a MB >> bluetooth connection with a motherboard. > > As with any other chipset on that board, I would check that the Linux > kernel (of your distro) includes support (kernel modules) for those > electronics. > > Bluetooth is handy for wireless headsets and maybe other things, but I > don't tend to use it myself. No experience yet but looking at a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to get rid of the cables on my (physical) desktop. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
