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

• 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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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it has wired Ethernet, proxmox is like, a small miracle of convenience. You can slice and dice multiple machines from one. It’s litterally one for the best pieces of diy infra support I’ve ever experienced…

        But you gotta be hardwired.

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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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