“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
“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…”
WiFi drivers… Bluetooth in general… Printers…
It could make a grown man cry I tell ya. CRY
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 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.
Cries in ndiswrapper and b43-fwcutter
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.