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Problems on problems - Mint can't see my wifi card. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I check the spec and it has a wifi chip but the os can't see it.

I had a wifi toggle on windows 11 when I got the PC and also when I used a mint USB boot. Driver manager sees nothing to update or install.

The mint community page has failed to post my question a few times so now I'm here.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, I know that. And then the outdated kernel has missing drivers, or packages are outdated, etc. and you are searching for solutions that only apply to Mint

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Those issues and solutions are mirrored in Ubuntu 22.04.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Interesting, I'm running LM:DE, and haven't had any problems, on first start up it offers up a selection of things I might want to do including loading proprietary drivers. So far I have it running on multiple computers, including two POS terminals that were never meant to be used as computers.