Proxmox NIC and WIFI adapter passthrough to VM not accessable via NIC/LAN

[andrema2]

Hi,

I need to use a WIFI adapter on one of my VMs to be able to access an specific equipment.
If I connect the usb wifi adapter, although the NICs are connected as before, I cannot access the server or ping it.
As soon as I remove the adapter and reboot again, everything works.
I think I have to configure Proxmox to not use the WIFI adapter. How can I do it ?

 

[oguz]

hi,

I think I have to configure Proxmox to not use the WIFI adapter. How can I do it ?

you can check with lspci -nnk to see which kernel module is being loaded for your wifi adapter.
once you know, you can blacklist the module by adding it into /etc/modprobe.d/pve-blacklist.conf.
afterwards run update-initramfs -k all -u and reboot.

 

[andrema2]

hi,


you can check with lspci -nnk to see which kernel module is being loaded for your wifi adapter.
once you know, you can blacklist the module by adding it into /etc/modprobe.d/pve-blacklist.conf.
afterwards run update-initramfs -k all -u and reboot.

Oi Oguz,

To be honest I gave up and went in a different direction to solve my issue. Turns out that the specific WIFI module that I was using doesn't have drivers for linux in general. Some people tried to generate one compiling others drivers. The result is a very poor performance and a really convoluted way to achieve it. Not worth it.

I should have checked the module and support before buy it. It was very cheap so the damage was pretty small.