External USB dongle for WIFI and Bluetooth

FYI:

I bought a Edimax EW-7611UXB - 2-in-1 WLAN 6 AX900 & Bluetooth 5.3 USB-Adapter ( Amazon.de ).

Small, only one dongle and sufficiently fast and modern.

Unfortunately no driver support under Oram due to older kernel…

…which has been fixed by vangelis/trixie! :+1: :clap:

After adding the following lines to the [all] section of /boot/firmware/config.txt

dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt

and a reboot, the internal devices were deactivated and I could simply configure the USB devices via the regular zynthian menus.

Caveat: Have to change the /boot/firmware/config.txt after each update for having the internal devices deactivated… I might lock the file to prevent it from being updated in the future but don’t want to do this in the current stage of activity/fixing on vangelis for not missing potential relevant changes in this file…

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