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Help with WiFi question, please and thank you (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any ideas why, when I'm on live session of a distro, the wifi works just fine, but when I I install it the wifi has a red X over connections? Specifically this happened with Nobara and the reason I'm running Pop!_OS. I'd would love a fix though in case I want to distro hop, but still be able to install it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would help to know what your wifi card is. Did you look in dmesg for any clues? You're probably missing the firmware blobs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a usb wifi adapter Netgear model:A6210.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't tell me much, Netgear uses a variety of chipsets