On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 5:37:04 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 03/28/2018 05:02 PM, Ringo wrote: > > Greetings. I have a Purism 15v3 laptop with an Atheros AR9462 wi-fi card. > > The card works under Qubes but it's slow, with bit-rate of only 6/mpbs. I > > had this issue before, on the same laptop when it was first shipped with > > the PureOS distribution (a debian distribution) and was able to fix it by > > installing a firmware package found at > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-atheros. However, I'm not > > able to install this same "firmware driver" under Qubes, since it's in > > debian format and not fedora. > > > > I downloaded a tool called "alien" which was able to convert the package > > into RPM format but then when I tried to install it using DNF in the > > SYS-NET cube, I received an error saying > > "firmware-atheros-20170823-2.noarch" conflicts with package > > linux-firmware-201771215-82.git2451bb.fc26.noarch. > > > > I'm thinking perhaps I should uninstall this conflicting package in order > > to install the atheros one that I know worked under PureOS, but frankly, > > I'm a bit out of my depth at this point and wondering if this makes sense > > to you all or might have other advice. Appreciate any thoughts you may > > have to assist. > > > > Warm Regards, Ringo > > > > I'd suggest using a Debian template for your sys-net; It takes time to > download but its fairly simple. You may want to try using the > Debian-supplied firmware first to see if that resolves the issue: > > sudo apt-get install firmware-atheros > > If that's not new enough you can follow Debian directions for installing > from a newer repository (e.g. Buster). >
Update1: Wow, what a great suggestion! I didn't even need to download anything. All I had to do was change the template from fedora to debian in the sys-net virtual machine settings and presto, it worked! I couldn't believe how simple this was. Thanks for the suggestion! BTW, appreciate the other comments regarding Purism, etc. I'm new to this space and was not aware what all to consider. I'll look around in other posts to try and do more research for best libre machine next time I'm in the market. Thanks for your help! > -- > > Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net > https://github.com/tasket > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- 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/12c8816f-78da-4671-af3b-0d76c0bddbab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
