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Is there a cheap, common USB wifi dongle that works? In the old days I kept a couple Realtek USB adapters around that would almost always work out of the box o
by bluedino 6mo ago
Is there a cheap, common USB wifi dongle that works?
In the old days I kept a couple Realtek USB adapters around that would almost always work out of the box or with ndiswrapper
- sidkshatriya 6mo agoNo need to get a USB dongle. You can use PCI passthrough to a Linux VM that has the Wifi driver. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704816
- justin66 6mo agoThat's insanely complicated compared to plugging in a USB dongle.
- rubatuga 6mo agoIf you've ever had to deal with usb hotplugging then no pci pass through is much simpler
- ssl-3 6mo agoIt's only complicated once, though -- at initial setup. And that setup part can be largely automated: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox (The computer itself doesn't care much about the complexity. It's a computer.)
- sidkshatriya 6mo agoMy approach costs $0 . You don't need to do the heavy lifting, Wifibox does.
- evanjrowley 6mo agoI'd like to know more about what it takes to turn on PCI pass through for laptop hardware. On desktops and servers it's typically the IOMMU setting in the BIOS. Is that also commonly available on laptops?