From: Daniel Hatton <dan.hatton@btinternet.com>
To: GUIX help list <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:53:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e39453da-67bd-42fe-bb83-253588d03730@btinternet.com> (raw)
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On switching distros to GUIX a couple of weeks ago, I had what I guess
is the not uncommon experience that my laptop's internal wifi and
Bluetooth interfaces needed proprietary firmware and therefore wouldn't
work with Linux-libre. No problem, I thought: I bought USB wifi and
Bluetooth dongles that were known Linux-libre-compatible. I have three
residual problems which I'm hoping the community can help with, please:
- The wifi connection drops with even the lightest of physical touches
on the body of the dongle (Atheros AR9271), and because the dongle
sticks out a long way from the laptop case, it gets touched a lot. Has
anyone had any joy with a Linux-libre-driven USB wifi dongle that
doesn't have these properties?
- One or both of the dongles is frequently stopping the machine from
resuming successfully from sleep. I can find instructions online for
how to configure systemd to handle awkward USB devices during
sleep/wake; are there equivalent instructions for shepherd, please?
- I've tried following the instructions in the GUIX reference manual for
how to configure the system to activate Bluetooth at boot time, but with
no joy: I still have to activate Bluetooth manually after logging in to
Gnome. Any advice on this, please?
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Kind regards,
Dan Hatton
Dr. Daniel C. Hatton
E-mail: <dan.hatton@btinternet.com>
SIP: <dan.hatton@sip.linphone.org>
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next reply other threads:[~2024-09-19 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-19 11:53 Daniel Hatton [this message]
2024-09-20 16:21 ` USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX Andreas Enge
2024-09-20 16:30 ` Daniel Hatton
2024-09-23 5:46 ` Efraim Flashner
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