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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

    Lemmy needs polls. The last time I had problems with WIFI drivers was... 15 years ago? On a laptop bought in a supermarket that originally came with Windows Vista. Oh, and the raspberry pi - fuck raspberry pis. They can't pick wifi module worth shit.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    I mean it isn't Linux fault, but I wanted to install balenaos on my RaspberryPi and they don't support a WiFi chip in their kernel. Without WiFi the whole idea won't work for me. And I don't want to buy a new WiFi usb only because they don't want to add the drivers.

    My attempts to add it to the kernel and build it myself failed so far.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not faulting linux, I'm faulting the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Linux is their main operating system and they haven't picked a good WIFI hardware module for years. Dunno if the new raspberrypi 4 is better, but I'm not paying to find out.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Quick correction, the Pi5 is the new one

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    Thanks. I'm out of the loop.

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