No WiFi on Bazzite
Hello everyone. I recently installed Bazzite on my mini PC using on a NVMe drive. After the installation, the system is stuck on the WiFi selection page. However, the WiFi appears to be functioning correctly on the Windows side of things( Windows is installed on a separate SSD)
I have disabled secure boot and fast boot, and I have verified that the time zones are synchronized. Could someone please assist me in resolving this issue?
RE: Screenshot
Disk 0 has windows
Disk 1 has Bazzite
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If restarting fixes the issue it would be better to just turn off Windows Hibernate. You can do that by opening a cmd.exe as administrator in Windows and running
powercfg.exe /hibernate off that will disable Hibernate but Windows will still work while you are testing out Bazzite. If it is the microcode issue, then you'll need to get details from swayze_mane19 Replies
Try select Restart in Windows rather than shutting it down. When it shuts down it does a semi hibernation which can sometimes make things like wifi and drives etc inaccessible in other systems.
this exact thing (exact symptom, anyway) happened to me the first time i installed bazzite on a second drive... the TLDR was a microcode issue with my WiFi driver; the fix ended up being simple, it just took me forever to realise 'intel killer wifi' devices have completely model names if used for linux, which makes TOTAL sense
...anyway microcode easy DL from intel then dropped in the specific folder on the linux side
but the wifi works in windows/but not linux had me scratching my head for days
I’ll give this a shot.
I have an intel AX200 WiFi. What would I need to do with the microcode?
Also would this issue go away if I nuke windows completely?
The only reason I loaded windows is because of the WiFi issue. I’m happy to get rid of it
Solution
If restarting fixes the issue it would be better to just turn off Windows Hibernate. You can do that by opening a cmd.exe as administrator in Windows and running
powercfg.exe /hibernate off that will disable Hibernate but Windows will still work while you are testing out Bazzite. If it is the microcode issue, then you'll need to get details from swayze_maneRestarting from windows to boot select and into fedora took me to a terminal interface.
Restarted again but I needed to change the boot order to boot into fedora first. And now I have WiFi.
You should be able to set your default boot to Fedora in your Bios and then it should boot straight into Bazzite. Weird that it booted into the terminal though
Yeah. Must have been me mashing F7 after already selecting fedora the first time around.
Cool. Glad that you are up and running 🙂
After the installation is complete I will perform that command you referenced and will close this discussion.
Is it safe for me to remove the windows SSD after this?
This Pc is going to be turned into a game console on my living room.
have a look at your /etc/fstab file with
cat /etc/fstab and make sure there isn't a reference to the Windows partition anywhere in there. If so, it should be safe to unplug the Windows SSD (granted you can just plug it back in if there is an issue). There shouldn't be a reference to it unless you've set it to auto mount in Bazzite
I see a winnt in line 14
Not sure if that’s a reference.
That's a reference to your efi partition, which according to your first screenshot that should be disk 1. So I think you are good to unplug the Windows drive (disk 0)
Thanks wolfy!! We are great here!! I really appreciate the assistance!
All good! Hope you enjoy your new Bazzite gaming console! 🙂
Thank you 🙏