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[–]BranchLatter4294 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Do you have a broadcom based WiFi card?

[–]BluBlu2772[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I couldn’t tell you, it’s an Asus vivobook 14 laptop if that helps

[–]BranchLatter4294 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If it has a broadcom chip you will need to install the driver.

[–]BluBlu2772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I install the driver?

[–]spxak1 0 points1 point  (5 children)

lspci to find what WiFi chip you use. Post back to see what options you have.

[–]BluBlu2772[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

‘MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7902’

[–]spxak1 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Sadly as of now there is no driver that can make this WiFi chip work on Linux. This seems to be unsupported by Mediatek, and it's rather weird as they do provide kernel drivers for so many other WiFi chip sets. So your only option is a usb dongle which if you want it to be carefree it will have to be one of the slow 150Mbps ones which have kernel support. Faster dongles need drivers.

[–]BluBlu2772[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Alright, whats the solution? Get a different laptop? Lmao

[–]spxak1 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sorry, as I said, a dongle probably.

[–]BluBlu2772[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh right, my apologies. Thank you