Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-28 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 22:45, mick howe wrote: Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour Good luck - let us know how things work out. gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 11:21, Genes Lists wrote: > > On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: > > > > It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance > > to

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I do have wifi on my laptop getting internet but I haven't tried to use it beyond email and browsing the web. I am now struggling to to wrap my mind around new concepts, I'm 70 y.o. and in poor health, the cause of my moving 1000 km from where I had everything working and had contacts. mick in

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may just work out of the box for some of the chipsets:

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may just work out of the box for some of the chipsets: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.ha...@pengutronix.de/ regards, gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 18:43, Genes Lists wrote: (3) Since ether over power didnt work would it work to add a second access point closer even if not all the way? duh sorry - brain fart - ignore that - lol ... obviously no help at all without working wifi. where's my coffee ... gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 18:02, mick howe wrote: I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to ... listed as might work. I tried to build it on the laptop with aur but 1. a way to build the driver for the Archer

Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to connect my two desktops and random Raspberry Pi and Arduinos to the 'modem' & the internet. That raises two problems: I don't know anything about wifi except