On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 06:09:24PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi hal, Haines,
>
> hal writes:
>
> > On 9/21/21 16:34, Haines Brown wrote:
> >> I'm looking at a Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Elite motherboard. One version of
> >> this motherbard (designated Ax) is "wifi-enabled". It also supports
> >> bluetooth I suppose this means that the NIC is on the board. I have no
> >> reason to think this would be useful under Linux. Am I wrong?
> >
> > The Wi-Fi chip on that board appears to be an Intel 6E with Bluetooth
> > 5.2 integrated on the chipset. There appears to be a wired LAN port as
> > well. You might be able to use either, or both.
> >
> >> It also supports bluetooth, but I've no idea what is the use of a MB
> >> bluetooth connection with a motherboard.
> >
> > As with any other chipset on that board, I would check that the Linux
> > kernel (of your distro) includes support (kernel modules) for those
> > electronics.
> >
> > Bluetooth is handy for wireless headsets and maybe other things, but I
> > don't tend to use it myself.
>
> No experience yet but looking at a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to get
> rid of the cables on my (physical) desktop.
>
> Hope this helps,

Thanks, Olaf, it did. A problem ia that I'm wedded to the old Intel
M-5 keyboards and geting them to use Bluetooth sounds like a challenge.

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Haines Brown