“Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”
I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol
I do the same. In case someone wants to know how it works with an Android phone, you connect your phone to your PC over USB and then you get a notification on your phone that says something like “Charging over USB”. If you tap on that, you can change the connection mode and one of the modes is “USB tethering”. If you select that, your PC will have an internet connection over the USB connection to your phone. It’s kinda like hotspot over USB.
“Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”
I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol
I do the same. In case someone wants to know how it works with an Android phone, you connect your phone to your PC over USB and then you get a notification on your phone that says something like “Charging over USB”. If you tap on that, you can change the connection mode and one of the modes is “USB tethering”. If you select that, your PC will have an internet connection over the USB connection to your phone. It’s kinda like hotspot over USB.
Cries in ndiswrapper and b43-fwcutter
I had to buy an Ethernet dongle for my Lenovo laptop for just such an occasion, and that was an adventure to get working.
In my case, the Ethernet wasn’t working either.
So I had to log into Windows, to try and find out the correct downloads. Failed that too.
WiFi drivers… Bluetooth in general… Printers…
It could make a grown man cry I tell ya. CRY
I just had to wrestle with this issue for the last few days.
Good news is my joker mask is arriving on Friday!
This brings back repressed memories for trying to get Fedora Core 4 to run on my Dell laptop back in 2005.
😂🤭 true. This used to happen to me in 2021 with 11th gen Intel laptop and Linux Mint…