15 years ago this was an issue on my laptop.
This is an issue on my 14 year old laptop today.
Try BSD
You win.
Scanner drivers are worse.
But are you perhaps referencing to the situation with Broadcom just incrementing their chips and drivers for years, flooding the market with cheap but quirky chips? Do they still do that?
Have no idea to be honest, I stole the meme 😂. But yes, I have had problems with wifi drivers on Linux. Not a lot, but still.
And yes, I’m still trying to get an old Microtek scanner to work in Linux 😔.
Mine just stopped working with brscan5 driver. It was a fast and quiet mobile scanner with high quality output. The new one is bigger, slower and louder and runs 90% of time in some photo mode. 🙁
edit: clarified
Have no idea what that is to be honest 😂.
Gotta love notebooks and their weird and rarely wonderful Wifi-Chips attached via SDIO. Even the intel cards can have problems!
Now we’re in the realm of weird sound drivers from integrated chipsets. Thankfully sof-firmware exists
I still have issues with certain ASUS cards that simply crash the whole system when it gets too high a load or something. I’ve never been able to find a solution for it and I fear I never will.
Chipset?
I just had a look. It’s the Asus PCE-N10. From what I can find they have the Realtek RTL8188CE chipset.
Yeah, Realtek WiFi cards are known to be problematic in Linux. Lan as well, but not to that extent.
Just swap the card with another one, no need to pull hair over it, it will most probably never work like it should.
I’ve started using usb wifi adapters so I can easily swap them out if they don’t work. Looks less neat to me but it is what it is.
They have a very very limited range. I have used them, but only if the AP is in the same room, otherwise, they crap out.
PS: Everything’s built from reinforced concrete and cinderblocks/bricks around here (seismically active region), so we have trouble with all sorts of wireless signals, including WiFi and 3/4G. 5G is out of the question here. We do have the towers, but less than 1% of users actually use them.
Am I the only person who doesn’t have WiFi problems?
The one I had was completely minor. The wifi on my NUC doesn’t work if you use the proprietary driver but it does work with whatever the kernel for Mint 21.2 has in it.
It’s not so bad if you’re running a major distro kernel and they do some prerelease testing before cutting new kernel packages. But if you’re using the latest release from the kernel.org stable tree WiFi driver regressions happen somewhat regularly.
Why tho
Ah, a very common use case.
I don’t think I have for more than a decade and I’m kinda amazed at how many upvotes this meme got.
10-15 years ago, it was a problem dire enough to drive me back to windows until about the start of the pando, and I’ve not even thought about Wi-Fi drivers since coming back to Linux.
I did have issues with a cheap USB Wi-Fi dongle thing a few years back, but that was likely the fault of the dongle more than anything else, I know because it didn’t really work under widows either.
This is definitely a meme for AntiqueMemesRoadshow lol
Yet the Bluetooth drivers are great. What gives?
Having coded against them, I’d argue that point. They’re just as bad as Wi-Fi.
Yeah, they came in later on and that’s why I think they were “better”… learned from experience with the wifi drivers. And they weren’t really better, most of them still use binary blobs.
Me struggling with Realtek on Linux 🤝 One of my partners struggling with Nvidia on Linux
At least I managed to get a Linux-compatbile wifi USB later on, but it was pricey to import it and it’s still quite slow :/
Just wait for the nvidia drivers lol
I haven’t had any recent issue with those either. Just make sure both the nvidia driver and the kernel are from your distros repository, and you always update them both at the same time.
My new laptop has a nvidia card in it. One time it stopped working after a update so I downgraded the drivers so I can wait entail the next update they do work. Besides that it have worked great. I am on fedora so rpmfusion is where the drivers are from.
Old meme
ReviOS for the Windows user. It’s not a OS, but a collection of scripts which convert Windows in what it should have been.
Works with 11 22H2. That’s a year out of date.
It’s the same problem that all the prepackaged modified Windows have when I go to try them out in a VM. They always seems to be way out of date and with all the security problems of Windows, I don’t want to run an old version just to save the time of cleaning out the telemetry and bloatware. Powershell scripts are more robust for me.
Just use NTLite yourself
Thank you internet stranger, I’m getting a new computer soon and I will be trying this!
Is it smart enough to pull the activation code from the BIOS if I buy a computer that has that?
Please do not trust modified windows installs based on old (22H2) update packs, you’re much better off debloating your fresh, up-to-date, already licensed install using some powershell wizardry…
Chris Titus has made a gui for this that you can access with a single powershell command. He also has made a guide on which settings he recommends to debloat a fresh install.
This way you aren’t entrusting your OS, privacy and data to some random unsecure repack. I can find the link for you if you would like :)
Yeah, that occured to me. thank you.good looking out, friend. I accept your offer!
Apologies for not having seen this until now, if you are still wondering and haven’t found the tool yourself, you can launch it by opening a windows terminal as admin and typing
irm christitus.com/win | iexas soon as chocolatey is installed a gui will launch allowing you to easily install common software, uninstall bloat, apply tweaks (such as disabling telemetry), and control windows updates. It’s a great one stop shop for setting up any fresh/existing windows install, and is continuously updated with reliable and transparent documentation.
If you would prefer a video about the tool, the latest one is here: https://youtu.be/GQBRrVGgB_Q
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Thank you kind internet stranger! ❤️
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.
This has to be the best script message I’ve ever seen 😂.
Netgear WiFi USB drivers. Weren’t good for much, but this one message was true as fuck!
Whenever I come across something I’d have to build myself, I just give up. No matter the instruction, there is always something wrong.
Compiling starts to work rather well once you’ve done it a few times. Especially when you get more used to understanding what ./configure tries to tell you. You should really try to get behind that, since you Linux will
Allright. You’ve convinced me not to give up.
And that Rick Roll song perfectly sums up how I personally think of Linux. I will not be giving it up. And I will not be saying goodbye.
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That is true on any LTS distro. Try rolling release, works without a glitch almost every time… well, at least on Void it does.
I read the previous comment and thought to myself “I bet there is some reply about LTS vs rolling release to this”. I KNEW IT!
Yep, been in the same boat 😂. Was an LTS fan for a long long time till I realized… this shit ain’t worth it 😂.
Everthing there is out there in 99% of the cases compiles against latest libraries. And well, LTS is just… lagging behind 🤷. So, you solve one lib dependcy and then, bam, another one pops up… OK, solved that one, bam, another one 😒… it just gets frustrating to compile stuff on LTS.
And then you get all sorts of errors from the package manager cuz you did the unthinkable - install latest libs on an LTS distro.
LTS is good for one thing only nowadays - servers.
Interesting. I did not know about that. I’ll be sure to give rolling a try then.
