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    [–] BlueDwaggin@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Strange. One of them main reasons I wiped my Dell XPS OEM Windows and installed Linux was for -better- WiFi behaviour.

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    [–] Norgur@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The very evening I installed Linux for the first time (I think it was Ubuntu 12.04), my Wifi stick was the first major hurdle. I was a teenager, had no idea about package managers and such, but the drivers for my stick were only available in an uncompiled format, so I had to first learn what build utils and kernel dev packages were, download them and their dependencies onto the windows PC of my dad and copy them onto a CD.

    After I had figured all that out (took me.a while), I learned how to compile on the fly.

    After I had run ./configure and it finallyfinally ran through without error, the config script had this last line:

    Configure done successfully. Now type 'make' and pray

    Things have changed over the years, but they haven't changed enough.

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    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    akmod and dkms to the rescue so you can watch as your kernel fights with the hardware in real time

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    [–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've only had problems with wifi drivers twice, immediately after clean-installing fedora 38 on two different devices. Plugging my device into ethernet and updating fixed it instantly.

    [–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What do I do if my laptop doesn't have an ethernet port?

    [–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    Not sure about iPhones, but I've used an android phone a couple times to both USB tether with data and to act as a WiFi receiver to download drivers in a pinch.

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    [–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just wait for the nvidia drivers lol

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    [–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
    [–] kinther@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    Still using a super old wlan usb adapter and I'm like, it just works!

    [–] Miyabi@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's insane how I just had this problem today. Had to tear out my network card in my Asus VivoBook 16. The drivers aren't out for the MediaTek network card so I had to change it to an Intel one that I previously used.

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    [–] westyvw@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Funny. I had a laptop that would do full speed and full security. But not in windows. They crippled the card with the driver, unless you paid more.

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    [–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This seems like a good thread to ask:

    I have a Retropie and I use wpa_supplicant to manage my connection there. It looks like this: the router is downstairs and I use a repeater in the room next to the Retropie to have better wifi coverage upstairs. The router itself is reachable, but the signal strength is worse. So, as a fallback, I put both the router and the repeater connection in my wpa_supplicant config file with the router having a lower priority. Still, sometimes my retropie clings onto the worse connection for some reason and there is no way to change it but to do a complete reboot. If I just restart the wifi with ifdown and ifup, it will either not reconnect to any wifi at all or reconnect to the shittier connection again, it's kinda a fifty-fifty. A reboot will always properly choose the best signal tho and I am very confused why this is happening. Any ideas?

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    [–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    It’s been so much better…but I’m steeling myself to track down a WiFi direct bug that keeps disconnecting due to a timeout after 10 seconds. Linus give me strength!

    [–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] Ooops@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

    No, that buried deep in the box with suppressed memories. So thank you for reminding me.

    [–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

    Don't remind me 😔...

    [–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    I only had issues with this when setting up Kali Linux for learning pen testing. Fedora it worked out of the box.

    [–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Gotta love notebooks and their weird and rarely wonderful Wifi-Chips attached via SDIO. Even the intel cards can have problems!

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    [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    LPT: Swapping Wifi modules is (sometimes at least) stupidly easy to do. I had a shitty

    Trigger WarningRealtek wifi card
    and bought an Intel card to replace it for about 30 bucks. Begone random disconnects and packet drops. Note that this was on a laptop and it was still just an issue of removing a few screws and swapping modules.

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