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Possible to use Linux for Wi-Fi drivers on Windows? (lemmy.ml)
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Sorry if this is slightly off topic, I searched for communities about tech support on here and couldn't find anything that wasn't dead in the water. Basically I want to use WPA3 on my Network, however my Windows partition doesn't support WPA3 for some reason. I only keep that piece of trash around for school work. My Fedora Linux partition can use WPA3 just fine so I assume this is a driver issue. Is there any way to use Linux WiFi drivers on Windows?

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[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway? It'd be kind of a nuts solution but it'd get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it's a separate device on the same network.

Something like the question posed here

You'd have to solve a few separate problems that might not be worth it, unfortunately I don't have these answers:

  1. Hardware passthrough to the guest (does it require any special drivers on windows/is this idea already dead in the water?)
  2. How to configure VM networking properly so that the host can use the connection (is it enough to configure the connection as bridged?)
  3. Performance
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway?

i don't know about advisable, but i know it works because i do this.

intel won't allow you to get wifi 6 speeds in ap mode with their linux driver; so i created a windows vm with pci passthrough to use the windows driver to get wifi 6 speeds. it passes along the connection via dns & ip masquerade to the soft router (also a vm) via kvm/qemu based software defined networking; so technically the connections from my laptop & smartphones go through 2 different networks before making it to my isp.

It’d be kind of a nuts solution but it’d get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it’s a separate device on the same network.

that's how my software router works and i always thought of it as hacky; this is the first time i've heard/thought otherwise.