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Have a PC that won't take Win10 due to hardware speed issues with the CPU, other than that it's fine, 480GB SSD, 8GB ram, think it's a good candidate for my daughter to do some photo editing. Installed Mint and connected it via wired network to the internet, downloaded Darktable as a test, seems to run fine. I need to put a wifi adapter into it and have a couple of Netgear WiFi adapters and have read that Linux and Netgear do not play well. Ordered an inexpensive adapter Anewish AC1200 from amazon as it said LInux compatable however it comes with no drivers and instruction in chienglish Any tips on how to get the drivers to work for either the netgear AC1200 or Anewish, or a better adapter for wifi/linux setup so that I can get the wifi running Thanks | ||
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Try here. Looks like that thread solved your issue. | |||
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no it didn't solve it.. | |||
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Look in Driver Manager. Is the wifi device listed? If the wifi adapter is not, then that's one troubleshooting step. If it is installed, but no driver, two options - from the Linux Mint OS install media, or using the wired connection to download the driver from the internet. Another way, is to go through the Settings panel. Mayhaps the wifi adapter/driver is disabled? Enable it? Still no joy? Try this then - open a terminal window and type rfkill unblock wifi A question about the Linux Mint you are using. Is the Debian or the Ubuntu version? The Ubuntu version is better with wifi device and drivers. ' We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Is the computer 64 bit compatible? if is not, there is a win10 32 bit version. Try a 32 bit version of Linux Mint. May need a wifi device compatible with Linux Mint. Good luck | |||
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Thanks for the extra info. When you were preparing to install Mint, do you recall a screen during the installation for install 3rd party s/ware for graphics, wifi hardware, flash ...? Did the PC have wifi access when running the earlier Windows OS? Or that is why the Anewish AC1200 is needed. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Bill, thanks yes it's 64 capable.. Yes the 3rd party screen came up and I selected to allow that install, no bueno... Machine ran win7 and had a netgear AC1200 usb network adapter that worked fine. That adapter was in the machine during install, and Mint didn't see it, so no it never had wifi access, it only has wired access, mint found the internal motherboard network adapter. I looked for an alternative and the ANEWISH AC1200 was reported as Linux compatible, The only adapter/driver showing is the NIVIDA video driver | |||
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Okay then ... From the terminal window: lsusb Let's see what USB devices are attached ... if okay, cut and paste to this thread? And, you still have that Netgear AC1200, though not inserted to USB? Maybe a way to use that, convoluted though. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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It could also be an issue with drivers for the USB controller on the motherboard, rather than with the WiFi adapter. I've had that happen before. | |||
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That's an RTL8821AU based device. The driver for that chipset hasn't been integrated into the kernel. You'll have to download the source for the driver and install to work with dkms. The source is here: https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux There are instructions for setting it up in that repo. | |||
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Bus 3, Dev 4 Realtek Semiconductor. That's likely the wifi adapter, re-badged with Realtek chipset. I would also ask you to run, in the terminal window: inxi -Fxzd Look at System: Host: kernel should indeed be x86_64 bits, then scroll down the output and look at Network: Should read as Device-1 Realtek then a model number. That's just for confirmation. At this point, rather than get to convoluted, I think it would be better for a different device. I'm thinking that when you hand off the laptop to your daughter, the less that can wrong later the better. Well my thinking anyway. To add the Realtek drivers and the steps is a tad lengthy and requires the wired connection to download the drivers from github. You'll want at least 300Mbps or better for wifi ... with 2.4Ghz backwards compatibility. Take a look at the Panda PAU06 300Mbps Wireless N USB adapter on Amazon ... this uses the Ralink chipset and as such, might be plug and play with - the Mint 17.x drivers on the install CD - well likely to work. I've not experienced the Panda, others have on the Linux Mint forum ... ps - after Mint install, you have rebooted? I know, I know ... the question. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Panda PAU06 We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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All he has to do is use dkms to install the RTL8821AU driver. It's like a 5 minute procedure if he can follow simple instructions. git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy...2AU_8821AU_linux.git /usr/src/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-1.0 sudo apt upate sudo apt install dkms linux-devel cd /usr/src sudo dkms add -m /usr/src/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-1.0 -v 1.0 sudo dkms build -m rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-1.0 -v 1.0 sudo dkms install -m rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux-1.0 -v 1.0 | |||
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Thanks for the instructions, I've tried the others I've found online in the mint boards etc none will complete, they bomb one one of the command. I will give it a shot to see if the ANEWISH will come up. Will give this a shot and see if it works, also ordered the Panda PAU06, at $15 it's worth a shot, and it will be here tomorrow from Amazon, if the panda will come right up that's what I"ll go with since it's going to my daughter and plug n play is best in that senario. | |||
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These Realtek wireless devices are weird. The way Linux works is that when you want your device to have support in the Linux kernel, you have to submit a driver to the kernel mailing list and then Linus Torvaldus has to eventually approve it to be merged into the kernel. Realtek never bothered to do that with this particular chipset. They decided to skip the 8821 based chips and to submit a driver for the 8822 based hardware. This driver was merged in Linux 5.2. Supposedly that driver is going to get support for the 8821 hardware in the next year. So a lot of people are dealing with this out of tree driver BS because Realtek is stupid. If you're interested in the most plug and play thing possible, you will want to stay with that PAU06. The PAU06 is an Atheros chip, which is very well supported in Linux. The downside is that the PAU06 is 802.11N, which is slow and outdated nowadays. In general for Linux, you want to stick with Atheros or Intel based cards and they just work. Some Realteks work. Broadcomm should always be avoided like the plague. | |||
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This page will help you determine your Realtek wireless chipset (which you may already know) and how to install the proper driver ... https://easylinuxtipsproject.b...t.com/p/realtek.html | |||
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Thanks, appreciate all the help, we'll see if the links work, and if not I'll have the Panda as a Back up... | |||
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