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

• lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With proxmox?

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Did I stutter?

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• nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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