Help setting up internet connection via wireless netgear internet adapter without internet

[Ryan Carter]

Hi I am having troubles setting up a internet connection via a wireless netgear internet adapter.
Some problems I encountered:
- I believe that I have to install installation disc software via a cd/rom drive just like setting up on any other OS without a prior internet connection
- So I tried attaching the cd/rom to sys-net vm by clicking yellow device button in top right corner and it was successful although when I went into the sys-net vm devices to add it it wasn’t there. I also tried doing it manually via the terminal but had no such luck maybe I did something wrong there not sure though.
- Also I tried inserting the wireless adapter w/o the installation disc first and it’s not registering at all on devices, but I assume that is b/c the software for it hasn’t been downloaded via cd hence my problem

I hope this was informative enough for a proper solution much thanks.
Sent from my iPhone

[Ivan Mitev]

You shouldn't have to install third-party drivers, the linux kernel
usually supports mainstream hardware out of the box. There are
exceptions though - fancy printers/scanners, exotic hardware, closed
hardware difficult to reverse-engineer, and/or hardware that is too new
for support to have reached the stable kernels used in Qubes, ...
By the way installing vendor drivers is quite a painful and time
consuming process.

What is your wireless adapter based on ? USB ? PCIe ? If you have
another computer with a "standard" linux distribution installed - eg.
debian, fedora, ubuntu, ... - did you try your adapter there ?

If your adapter is a PCIe card, did you assign it to sys-net ? Do you
see anything relevant in `sudo dmesg` in sys-net ?

Otherwise, assuming it's a USB device, is it shown when typing `lsusb`
in sys-usb (assuming you have such vm) ? Ditto for `sudo dmesg` ?

Or maybe your adapter is supported but you simply didn't configure your
VM(s) to use it - eg.:

1- attach the device from sys-usb to sys-net (not guaranteed to work -
usb pass-through is usually a hit or miss)

2- or, attach the relevant usb controller(s) to sys-net (and ditch
sys-usb if it doesn't have controllers assigned to it anymore).

3- or, setting up NetworkManager in sys-usb and defining 'sys-usb' as
sys-firewall's netvm (which basically ends up being identical to 2- above).

(note: I don't have a usb network adapter to test so the above is what I
imagine is needed given my knowledge of qubes. Others may chime in...).

The following may also help: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/

Ivan