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Want to swich to Linux - question about Wifi drivers (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, everyone!

I am interested in Linux, but wasn't able to use it on my system, because of the lack of wifi drivers. Now here's my question: Are there any Linux distros, that support wifi out of the box?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately without knowing what your wifi card is, we can't really help there. An easy way to know if it works is to try a live-USB of any distro you like. If it works, you know that once installed it should work too. Otherwise you would have to dig a little probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The driver is an Realtek RTL8821 CE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Apparently the driver for this card was about to be included in the kernel last year, but I don't know if it is now. You might have more luck with rolling-release distros, or at least very up to date ones like Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Indeed that chipset seems to be problematic. There is a complicated way to get it working, but you are probably better off waiting a bit for the Linux kernel level support to stabilize. Apparently it is included in version 5.9 but buggy. Maybe it works in 5.10 now.

If you want to try now, you best bet is to install Manjaro, connect it to a cable ethernet to update the Kernel to 5.10 and reboot to check if the wifi works then.