On Wed, January 31, 2018 2:39 pm, jaya...@gmail.com wrote: > What do you mean it is easy to do? Where do you get a compatible wireless > card, that is definitely supported by Qubes anyway? > > I somehow imagined that getting appropriate driver should be simpler :/
It's not necessarily a driver issue; more of a Xen (on which Qubes is based) pass-through issue. Of the subset of wireless NICs that work problem-free on Linux, there's a smaller subset that Xen can pass-through problem-free and an even smaller subset that can be passed through a QEMU/Xen stub-domain (which is what Qubes uses). I think it comes down to how virtualization friendly the hardware manufacturer laid out their BARs and MSI pages and whether MSI interrupts work (and who knows, maybe there's a QEMU or some other bug somewhere in there too). I have success with an AR9565 on R4.0 but not an AR928x. If you're going to be shopping for another wireless card, maybe pick one then search this mailing list for problem/success reports, or identify which laptops come with it then search https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ and see if those laptops are reported problem free with R4.0? Longer term, I wonder if a section should be added to https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ specifically to list known compatible/incompatible network cards under Qubes R4.0? Could be painful to maintain if we expand it to cover PCI devices in general... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/8fa99630352fccb4fa0b19e7f7248272.squirrel%40tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
