On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 06:09:24PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > 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,
Thanks, Olaf, it did. A problem ia that I'm wedded to the old Intel M-5 keyboards and geting them to use Bluetooth sounds like a challenge. -- Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng