On 01/04/2021 07:52, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:38:11PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:20:03PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:Not sure what hardware you are talking about but the majority of WiFI hardware is supported by the mainline kernels, at least after you load their firmware.I assume you haven't tried very much wifi hardware. Realistically, the
state
of wifi support is still terrible. The best thing to do is try to buy something known to be supported, but that's relatively difficult for most people because the name on the box generally has nothing to do with the chips inside the box.Can you please list some unsupported chips in addition to these specific Realtek ones?
It has been suggested to me to buy the external USB wifi dongles, while this is fine if the device is pretty much flush or perhaps only 5mm out from the side, anything bigger risks it being caught or knocked, which will not only cause damage to the dongle but also the laptop it's self,
In that light our choices are perhaps more limite Paul -- -- Paul Sutton, Cert Cont Sci (Open) https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/ OpenPGP : 4350 91C4 C8FB 681B 23A6 7944 8EA9 1B51 E27E 3D99 Pronoun : him/his/he
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