Installing wifi drivers
Hey guys! Sorry for being a total noob. I have a new wifi adapter and with it came drivers for Linux too. The adapter is not working out of the box, and I'm not allowed to install the install.sh even with sudo.
It's rtl88 something.
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You can't install them yourself and we do not include out of tree Wi-Fi drivers due to them generally being of extremely poor quality or breaking existing hardware. Your only option would be to make a custom image
My recommendation is to just buy functioning hardware, what you have is not that. I can give you a resource for hardware that works.
Thanks. I'll use cable for now 🙏
Hey Kyle, I'm having similar issues with a Panda PAU0D, could you please send through that list of compatible hardware?
Any device that does not have drivers build into the official kernel is a bad device. Basically when buying hardware for Linux you simply look online for someone that has tried that device and see what the experience is. My 10gbe PCI card for example just works out of the box. On Windows however I need to download the drivers before it works.
The driver is part of the Linux kernel though, it's mt7612u. It seems this is blacklisted by Bazzite for some reason though
We don't blacklist a single wifi driver
Anything in the kernel will work
My findings seem incorrect then, may you please see this thread I raised? https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1344896858136379452/1344896858136379452