Hello Daniel, Am Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:53:48PM +0100 schrieb Daniel Hatton: > - The wifi connection drops with even the lightest of physical touches on > the body of the dongle (Atheros AR9271), and because the dongle sticks out a > long way from the laptop case, it gets touched a lot. Has anyone had any > joy with a Linux-libre-driven USB wifi dongle that doesn't have these > properties?
yes, but unfortunately I cannot suggest a particular brand. I have bought a random, rather large and rather cheap external Atheros dongle years ago, and it just works. I have even somewhat twisted the metal part of the USB plug, and it still works. dmesg says this: [80900.045953] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271, bcdDevice= 1.08 [80900.045976] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48 [80900.045986] usb 1-2: Product: USB2.0 WLAN [80900.045993] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS [80900.046000] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 12345 [80900.050769] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Firmware ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw requested [80900.051561] usb 1-2: Direct firmware load for ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw failed with error -2 [80900.051594] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested [80900.344754] usb 1-2: ath9k_htc: Transferred FW: htc_9271.fw, size: 51008 [80900.595747] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: ath9k_htc: HTC initialized with 33 credits [80900.909903] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version: 1.4 [80900.909921] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0: FW RMW support: On [80900.909929] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c [80900.909935] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a country code [80900.909940] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search [80900.909943] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x52 [80900.909948] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN [80900.909953] ath: Regpair used: 0x52 [80900.917053] ieee80211 phy1: Atheros AR9271 Rev:1 [80900.921398] ath9k_htc 1-2:1.0 wlp0s20f0u2: renamed from wlan0 I have tried bluetooth, but just enabling it in the service part of my system definition did not make it work, and I was not motivated enough to spend time debugging. Similarly for the sleeping function. Andreas
