Re: [LUG] Getting a USB AC68 dongle to work in Mint 19.3

[comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08/04/2020 21:51, Julian Hall wrote:

> No, bought last week.. I made the mistake of seeing it said it works on 
> a Raspberry Pi and - as Raspbian is Debian based as is Mint - I thought 
> it would be OK. No.. not so much..

Ok, let's check what actually needs to be done here then. _Why_ have you 
bought it and what's it supposed to be used for ideally? Obviously it 
would be ideal if it worked - flawlessly or bodged - in any device you 
own but it's probably wise to concentrate on getting it working where it 
needs to be first.

You're going to say the machine we've been working on I expect :|

Does it not already have wifi or ethernet? Was this a perceived 
"upgrade" that has backfired perhaps?

I can't remember if you're one of the rabid anti-Windows ones or not - 
let's hope not for your sake, because testing it actually works at all 
first is a good idea. Stick it in a windows instance if you've got one 
just to make sure, it'll suck if the unit is genuinely faulty.

If you're feeling efficient, recycle the all-in-one instructions from 
the email a while back and run them on the Lenovo - at least there 
you've got a clean system in respect of this particular mess to test on. 
Clone the repo and build with DKMS, etc, etc. Check to see if the Lenovo 
Mint install can autocomplete apt packages while you're there, I still 
have no idea how your bash-completion isn't working.

This is like being back in time 10 or 20 years ago when random devices 
need torturous manual steps to coax into life... good times.

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