Looking to switch to a ThinkPad from a Librem14 Suggestions welcome

[enmus]

@thinkpadp1

My laptop only has I believe one usb controller.

You don’t believe. You open Device tab of any qube and look left and right for any controller that has USB in it’s name.

@thinkpadp1

Is it possible to follow your setup and preserve my default sys-usb to function normally (i.e. handle keyboard/mouse/storage/display in offline standard mode) and simultaneously following your guide to use USB-ethernet?

Especially in your case, I’d try to do that.

@thinkpadp1

Or does this require a computer with more than one USB controller to work as you describe?

No.

@thinkpadp1

I am also curious if you have a computer with multiple USB controller why don’t you just create multiple sys-usb

@enmus

On a typical laptop with multiple controllers. Each controller has it’s own sys-usb.

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@thinkpadp1

I am confused as to what the advantage is doing this way you are doing … and can compartmentalize.

I am compartmentalizing more than you are aware it looks. I just wrote that I have two sys-nets for two adapters from this sys-usb?

@thinkpadp1

what the advantage is doing this way you are doing

I wrote: I’m trying to protect my controller and the other device, by not making sys-usb online and the “protector” is sys-net in PVH mode to which adapter from sys-usb is persistently attached to. Please re-read that topic from the link above.