I just installed it on my good laptop, not top end but still with guarantee and a brilliant OLED screen, just to find out I have to wait till this summer before the WiFi chipset is supported in Linux, maybe I’ll just stick to USB tethering with my phone for those few months. But it’s typical. This one where I am typing now i bought specifically for Linux and it worked immediately after installing.
THIS SHOULD BE REPLY NO 1, BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO MOVE IT UP THERE?
Others on here have suggested buy a cheap stopgap USB dongle and it looks like you did already and hit more issues…
You should be able to shop around for one with a known good “works out of the box on Linux” chipset… Intel chipsets are universally good, and Intel drivers aren’t closed source… However I don’t know of any USB WiFi dongles with Intel chipset. Some MediaTek chipset USB dongles work out of the box on Linux (e.g. on Raspbian)…
I’ve mentioned this anecdote on this forum several times :
In ~2021/22 I got a 2nd hand Lenovo ThinkPad E495 off e-bay… I never even booted the Windows it came with once… Installed Ubuntu (20? 22?) …
It had a Realtek chip (mini PCIe chip inserted on the laptop mobo) and while it seemed to “work” it was terrible, awful, kept dropping out - and - it was my Bluetooth module on the laptop and that was diabolically unreliable… i.e. the O/S loaded drivers for it - didn’t need to add extra PPA (Note : I strongly advise against insalling PPA!) or get driver source code or kernel headers or anything… But the performance was unacceptable…
I gave up trying to get it to work… Ordered a replacement mini PCIe card from Amazon with an Intel chipset (AX300)… it was around $20 (AUD so about 15 USD or EURO) delivered. Removed base plate off Thinkpad, took the old card out, installed the new one… Booted up Ubuntu and instantly better WiFi and Bluetooth… The hardest part was re-attaching the antenna leads (I needed a magnifying glass and some tweezers!).
Is the real problem the internal wifi card ?
Removal or exchange being the answer to élimination it from its control on the system thats what i had to do with my solution
Can you explain how a wifi card could in any way influence the functioning of the kernel?
I dont think its effecting the kernel but i think the effect of its présence is stopping other keys working correctly.
In my case the 2 external keys I tried went to sleep after 1 hour or failed to function. Removed the internal wifi card. Plugged in a wifi keys external through usb and everything functioned. Hence internal card faulty and also preventing others as well..
Could be wrong but all the updates are not giving the desired results hence hardware rather than firmware
If its a laptop could be difficult to get to or remove.
Again different possibility
the internal is just not recognised, no kernel module, short of seeing it is there linux does nothing with it. I don’t think that will influence anything tbh
Yeah, I am between kin here as if we go looking for trouble, hehe. I actually bought a second hand laptop specifically to install linux onto it. And it does! Will carry it to our apartment back in the homecountry, but living as an expat I have these things double. As such thought I am crazy using an old smaller, but heavier, laptop with an ordinary screen in stead of this one which at the moment is worth more than when I bought it… but as expected something doesn’t work properly and now we are all exchanging ideas. But we actually like that don’t we?
I wrote it somewhere else, but I think I simply wait for the newest kernel which will have support for my internal wifi integrated. Thanks people 