Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)?

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No idea what Proxmox is but will research!

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only bummer is the requirement of wired Ethernet

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  • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got wireless working in Debian on a 2012 Mac Mini, maybe there’s still hope?

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With proxmox?

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Did I stutter?

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  • nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    any other linux distro can do vms and containers, too. arguably it’s easier to do that than with proxmox.

    but yeah, i wanted to check it out so threw it on the drive i pulled from my old broken laptop to check it out and discovered the wifi omission. i even tried to install base debian and ensure wifi was set up first then convert to a proxmox install. sadly, proxmox’s network stack is in conflict with any other linux network libs and actively uninstalled whichever one i had set up during the proxmox install.

    i get their reasoning for not supporting wifi after looking it up but imho completely removing it as a possibility is a bit not cool, bro. i wasn’t trying to do any high availability or multiple nodes or anything lile that so it wouldn’t have been an issue for my use case anyway.

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