Re: USB wifi and Bluetooth dongles under GUIX: SOLVED

[Daniel Hatton]

On 19/09/2024 12:53, Daniel Hatton wrote:

> - The wifi connection drops with even the lightest of physical touches 
> on the body of the dongle (Atheros AR9271), and because the dongle 
> sticks out a long way from the laptop case, it gets touched a lot.  Has 
> anyone had any joy with a Linux-libre-driven USB wifi dongle that 
> doesn't have these properties? > - One or both of the dongles is frequently stopping the machine from
> resuming successfully from sleep.  I can find instructions online for 
> how to configure systemd to handle awkward USB devices during 
> sleep/wake; are there equivalent instructions for shepherd, please?

The two problems above are now SOLVED, by ditching the Atheros AR9271 
dongle and replacing it with a ThinkPenguin TPE-N150USB, which appears 
to have the same chipset but doesn't exhibit the problems.

> - I've tried following the instructions in the GUIX reference manual for 
> how to configure the system to activate Bluetooth at boot time, but with 
> no joy: I still have to activate Bluetooth manually after logging in to 
> Gnome.  Any advice on this, please?

This is also now SOLVED, as discussed in the thread culminating in 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-11/msg00143.html>.

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