Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX: SOLVED

2024-11-27 Thread Daniel Hatton
On 19/09/2024 12:53, Daniel Hatton wrote: - 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-driv

Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX

2024-09-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 05:30:26PM +0100, Daniel Hatton wrote: > On 20/09/2024 17:21, Andreas Enge wrote: > > > 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 eve

Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX

2024-09-20 Thread Daniel Hatton
On 20/09/2024 17:21, Andreas Enge wrote: 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

Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX

2024-09-20 Thread Andreas Enge
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 anyo

USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX

2024-09-19 Thread Daniel Hatton
On switching distros to GUIX a couple of weeks ago, I had what I guess is the not uncommon experience that my laptop's internal wifi and Bluetooth interfaces needed proprietary firmware and therefore wouldn't work with Linux-libre. No problem, I thought: I bought USB wifi and Bluetooth dongl