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

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only bummer is the requirement of wired Ethernet

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  • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With proxmox?

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Did I stutter?

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      • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah, this was for the Mac Mini running debian itself. I haven’t had any experience running proxmox, but was just idly wondering that maybe there’s a path to get it working in there given the there was a (PITA) path for getting it working in debian.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your name gave me a chuckle. At first I thought it said ‘lemmy_clear_my_throat’ However, if you do somehow manage to deploy Proxmox with Wi-Fi capabilities, I’ve got a project, so do please share any findings.

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      • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Didn’t mean to give false hope, just meant that after a bunch of tinkering I eventually got WiFi working on the Mac Mini running debian itself, so maybe there’s hope for wireless in proxmox, but unfortunately I have no experience with that.

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  • nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      discovered the wifi omission.

      TIL I didn’t realize that Proxmox doesn’t support Wi-Fi. Well, now I can scratch one project off the list.

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• rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No idea what Proxmox is but will research!

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