On 11/20/18 2:12 AM, 'Ryan Carter' via qubes-users wrote:
Hi I am having troubles setting up a internet connection via a wireless netgear internet adapter. Some problems I encountered: - I believe that I have to install installation disc software via a cd/rom drive just like setting up on any other OS without a prior internet connection - So I tried attaching the cd/rom to sys-net vm by clicking yellow device button in top right corner and it was successful although when I went into the sys-net vm devices to add it it wasn’t there. I also tried doing it manually via the terminal but had no such luck maybe I did something wrong there not sure though. - Also I tried inserting the wireless adapter w/o the installation disc first and it’s not registering at all on devices, but I assume that is b/c the software for it hasn’t been downloaded via cd hence my problem
You shouldn't have to install third-party drivers, the linux kernel usually supports mainstream hardware out of the box. There are exceptions though - fancy printers/scanners, exotic hardware, closed hardware difficult to reverse-engineer, and/or hardware that is too new for support to have reached the stable kernels used in Qubes, ... By the way installing vendor drivers is quite a painful and time consuming process.
What is your wireless adapter based on ? USB ? PCIe ? If you have another computer with a "standard" linux distribution installed - eg. debian, fedora, ubuntu, ... - did you try your adapter there ?
If your adapter is a PCIe card, did you assign it to sys-net ? Do you see anything relevant in `sudo dmesg` in sys-net ?
Otherwise, assuming it's a USB device, is it shown when typing `lsusb` in sys-usb (assuming you have such vm) ? Ditto for `sudo dmesg` ?
Or maybe your adapter is supported but you simply didn't configure your VM(s) to use it - eg.:
1- attach the device from sys-usb to sys-net (not guaranteed to work - usb pass-through is usually a hit or miss)
2- or, attach the relevant usb controller(s) to sys-net (and ditch sys-usb if it doesn't have controllers assigned to it anymore).
3- or, setting up NetworkManager in sys-usb and defining 'sys-usb' as sys-firewall's netvm (which basically ends up being identical to 2- above).
(note: I don't have a usb network adapter to test so the above is what I imagine is needed given my knowledge of qubes. Others may chime in...).
The following may also help: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/ Ivan -- 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/ab405d5f-fc3f-b4ac-e3fc-c09b6b5a20b8%40maa.bz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
