Any fellow Linux users on here?

[Judge]

I've been here before a few times. It's simply that there's no driver available - Firmware in Linux language. I know that soon enough there'll be an update and all of a sudden the wifi will become available, in the meantime it's not an issue that concerns me.

Just wondering as well if you can get the Ethernet port and drivers to work as well.

This was a real concern to me some time back when building a new system. Where certain Asus motherboards' Intel Wifi and/or Ethernet wouldn't work out of the box, with Windows let alone Linux.

Requiring to download the latest drivers...which was an awkward request under the obvious circumstances.

 

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Just wondering as well if you can get the Ethernet port and drivers to work as well.

Never even tried it but I assume it does. I tethered my phone through USB and that gets identified as an ethernet connection, so that part's working properly. But as far as wifi is concerned there simply is no device available.

 

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That just reminded me of a joke I saw on the net not long ago - If the USA is so great why did someone invent USB?

 

[tkcartoonist]

But USB is just...B. USA is an A. A+ if you're psychotic.

 

[saturnv]

I'm using microcontrollers, but this seems to be a linux-based issue that I've run into quite frequently.

It seems like USB devices end up there when you connect them (I actually have to access them manually through the CLI to get them to work, so I can usually find them easily), either being assigned /dev/ttyacm0 or /dev/ttyusb0. Both use a generic serial protocol to display information, but at the app I'm using (an IDE) doesn't seem to have the same access to the serial protocol that I can get when I'm reading from it in a more 'bare metal' approach.

It seems like some apps might not have certain permissions when it comes to /dev/ttyacm0 / /dev/ttyusb0 but I can't figure it out exactly. On windows, the same IDE immediately knows what to do and reads from the serial protocol, so I'm wondering if there's some kind of soft lockout going on here by default.

I'm thinking about maybe elevating permissions from my IDE to start with to see if that changes anything, but it's strange that it has enough permissions to reprogram my boards without any issue. It's the smallest things that can be the most frustrating at times, because while it's technically still usable this way there's really no means of debugging without having that console handy.



I definitely wouldn't want to do that in that case. Even if it's a fresh install, that'll set me back a ways! I'm curious as to whether drives can just have a, "Hey, anyone / anything can access this" kind of permission somewhere that I don't know about, because Linux seems to really snap that window of access time down for security reasons or something, whereas Windows just lets everything access it all the time (probably to a fault!)

You could try to check what group the /dev/tty... device is and add your account to that group. I think it is dialout in Ubuntu.

 

[Ken]

Have recently replaced the system hard drive of my "vintage" Dell Optiplex 790 desk top, running Linux Mint, with a Solid State Drive and suddenly the performance falls into the extreme "Holy Krap" level!

The computer had previously ran rather slow, but just acceptable. Now, it's the fastest computer I have ever used or even imagined. Even things that I thought didn't have anything to do with the hard drive is now super fast.

I'm just gobsmacked at the new performance!
Just had to share.

 

[Judge]

Have recently replaced the system hard drive of my "vintage" Dell Optiplex 790 desk top, running Linux Mint, with a Solid State Drive and suddenly the performance falls into the extreme "Holy Krap" level!

The computer had previously ran rather slow, but just acceptable. Now, it's the fastest computer I have ever used or even imagined. Even things that I thought didn't have anything to do with the hard drive is now super fast.

I'm just gobsmacked at the new performance!
Just had to share.

Yep. Every Linux distro I've experimented with ran considerably faster than Windows. But then there's very little in the way of resident memory hogs running in the background compared to Windows. Yet I've always come back to Linux Mint above all others.

Even my 13-year old computer I built still runs Mint 22.0 just fine. A hardware platform that Windows 11 refuses to run on. No Secure Boot, no TPM 2.0. Oh well....lol.

I still chuckle at the fact that I can run Photoshop 5.5 using Wine 9.0 better in Linux than it ever worked in Windows 7 or 10.

Point taken though. Another reason not to go back to Microsoft and face an inherently slower OS courtesy of intentional bloatware.