HI ZK and other 4m enthusiasts,
Before I even consider buying a new HP laptop with a touchscreen, without an ethernet port, the following question springs to mind:
Will 4m Linux recognize an ethernet lan connection if I use an USB-C - Internet LAN Network Adapter?
Or is this not advisable at all?
Experiences anyone?
Thanks in advance, greetings!

It depends on the wireless chipset in the adapter.

Some manufacturers of USB wireless adapters provide much better Linux support than others.

It might help if you provide the make/model of the adapter and research what chipset it contains. If you don't already have the adapter, I would recommend buying from a vendor that specializes in native Linux computers, such as ThinkPenguin.com.

Full Disclosure: I have no connection with ThinkPenguin except as an occasional, but satisfied customer. I have purchased several USB wireless adapters from them over the years and they have all worked.

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Hi Frank,
perhaps it is my shortcoming in the English language that has led to a misunderstanding.
I didn't mean a wireless adapter but wired.
Nevertheless, your reply has helped me a lot. There is quite a lot of crap of this type of device on the market apparently. No surprise there and I rest my case.
What do surprises me, perhaps a bit naive, is that a lot of new laptop/notebooks comes without an ethernet connector.
And on the Thinkpenquin website they sell a dailup modem!
Try to explain a Dutch person that a lot of people in the USA, to name but one country, still rely on dailup..
Anyway, getting a bit carried away here.
Even though I am quite certain that a (proper) wired USB-c - ethernet adapter will work with 4M Linux I will leave this thread unsolved until I or someone else confirms that it will.
Greetings!

frankbell is still correct, it depends on the chipset of the device and the kernel version you are running.

https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Ethe...11&s=pc&sr=1-4

This should be plug and play for kernels >=3.9

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So my guess is that the device in question should work under 4MLinux.

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My guess too! All be it that the price is almost to good to be true. But customer service seems to be okay.
"Solved" as far as I am concerned!

When you said "USB," I just leapt to the conclusion you meant a USB wireless adapter. I'm glad I could help, even if I misunderstood your question! And thanks for filling me in on the rest of the story.

It really is quite appalling. Many persons are all wifi all the time, but the notion that the ethernet port might go the way of the parallel port is, quite frankly, appalling.

I think some manufacturers are so enamored of slim styles that they have chosen to sacrifice functionality just to shave a millimeter or two off the profile of the machine.

The U. S. A. is a big country, and many parts of it are comparatively empty of people, almost unpopulated in fact.

In the moderately and highly populated parts, cable and other forms of broadband connections are readily available. But when you get into some of the least populated parts, such as, for example, the Appalachian highlands (western Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina; and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee; and northwestern Georgia) or communities in the western desert/mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, and so on) broadband is often still unavailable outside of the urban/suburban areas.

Heck, my brother lives not three hours from me in a relatively populous rural part of Virginia, and his internet connection is by directional wireless and his television is by Direct TV, as cable does not reach to where he lives.