On 24/04/2025 at 15:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-04-24):However wouldn't it be desirable to mark wifi 7 controllers as unsupported in netcfg and in the installation guide in order to limit user frustration ?If we can easily spot unsupported cards and not offer them at all (ignore entirely, with explicit log lines in syslog?) and also document that in the installation guide, that'd be nice to have. Best if that can land in 13.0; OK if that lands in 13.n, n>0. (Until support comes along and is considered for a possible backport as detailed above.)
Unsupported wireless interface detection could use nl80211 (not trivial, link with libnl) or try to use some heuristics based on information available in sysfs, maybe something like:
if /sys/class/net/$[interface}/wireless exists or /sys/class/net/$[interface}/uevent contains "DEVTYPE=wlan" or /sys/class/net/$[interface}/type = "801" (802.11)Lennart or Marcin, can you check if any of these conditions match your Wi-Fi 7 interface ?
On the user interface side, what would be best ?- Silently ignore unsupported interfaces ? (but the user may wonder why the interface is not showing) - Or warn the user that the wireless interface is not supported yet ? (with a new debconf template, implies translation effort).