Hi, everyone!
I am interested in Linux, but wasn’t able to use it on my system, because of the lack of wifi drivers. Now here’s my question: Are there any Linux distros, that support wifi out of the box?
Hi, everyone!
I am interested in Linux, but wasn’t able to use it on my system, because of the lack of wifi drivers. Now here’s my question: Are there any Linux distros, that support wifi out of the box?
The wifi is on the mainboard or a seperate addon card? In general “Killer” gaming network equippment seems to have issues under Linux. Most other wifi cards, especially those with intel and realtek chipsets usually work out of the box.
What Linux distribution did you try?
I tried a few… Ubuntu, LM, Solus, everywhere was the same error. Is there a way to find out the driver in the live Linux USB?
Do you have Ethernet access?
Can’t you just check in your current OS (assuming it is Windows) what the network card is? Worse comes to worst you can get a cheap USB wifi card or something like that.
Simplified speaking there is no such thing as a driver in the Linux world. It either works or it doesn’t. Try to figure out what the wifi hardware in your PC is, otherwise we can’t really help you.
Yo. Who sells you your crack? I want some. Of course there’s drivers in Linux.
Simplified speaking ofc. rolls eyes
How is that simplified at all? Sometimes you need to download drivers.
in 90% (other than Nvidia GPU) not, and certainly not in the way Windows users are used to it. For beginners it is better to only use the hardware that is supported by the kernel itself.
Perhaps he falls into that other 10%? That’s still 1 in 10. Though that’s obviously not accurate.
No they’re not the same as Windows, and some people don’t have the financial option of buying a system specifically for Linux - they have what they have and need to make it work.
I needed to download wifi drivers for my first Linux install. Sometimes it happens. No need to mislead the poor guy.
Hence I asked him to figure out what his hardware is. Talking about drivers on Linux is what misleds most beginner users on Linux, as it is totally different from the Windows world.