Something I discovered recently is that you can connect an android phone to wifi, connect it to your computer, and enable "usb tethering" to pass the wifi connection to your computer as a wired connection. Maybe not practical for everyday use, but could still be useful!
Maybe it was merged into the mainline kernel already but your distribution still has the older package?
I bought a d-link usb wifi for $7. It worked fine on Linux.
I was thinking something on those lines the other day. We like to say that Linux revives old computers, and I wouldn't for a second consider putting Windows back on them, but I also have a case of hardware support so close, yet so far. I've two old laptops with nvidia chips from before the days of Optimus switiching, so you are forced to use the dGPU. Believe me, I wasted a whole weekend trying to make them use only integrated graphics. It was fine while they were supported under the proprietary nvidia driver, but as soon as support ended, nouveau became the only option and it absolutely crippled 3D performance, even on very old titles. Meanwhile, Windows still supports the old 340 driver needed for those graphics chips.
Mostly comes down to hardware vendors not bothering with Linux support and open-source in general. Which leaves support for affected devices down to volunteers having time to reverse-engineer a driver from scratch. To be clear, I don't blame nouveau at all. It must have been a ton of work to even get the nouveau driver to its current state.
support is expensive and a lot of hardware companies operate on razor thin margins.
either that or their c-levels of the hardware companies want to maximize profits.
Which begs the question: if you, as a company, do not want to support the device on systems not on the short list, why not open source the main driver and let the people figure out how to make it work somewhere else? Is this such a stupid thing to wish for?
Ask Nvidia; their software is literally created and tested on Linux but won't release it for Linux. Lol
And the reason why they don't is that they're scared of losing profit somehow
Because basically the only difference between a [$$$] consumer GPU and a [$$$$$] workstation/server GPU are software and a few extra memory chips (little bit hyperbole). If businesses could have been buying [$$$] GPUs and doing the same things they need to do on [$$$$$] GPUs (e.g. GPU Partitioning), Nvidia wouldn't be where they are right now.
it makes me wonder why they don't just use slightly older gpu's ; there are so many out there.
C-levels: why not both?
the hardware companies i worked at that created & tested their products on linux, but refused to support linux had engineers that mostly didn't care one way or the other; they only cared about getting paid.
USB Wi-Fi adapters are usually fine. I do have a PCI-E Wi-Fi card in my desktop from my Hackintosh days, though, which has gone unused since my home now has lots of ethernet connections.
wireless cards are really cheap on aliexpress and the ones I've bought have been actual genuine parts. I recommend getting something like a Intel AX210 for normal use, or a card supported by ath9k if you want to mess around with wifi stuff
Have you tried looking for the driver for your wireless card?
Yeah, I have. This set of Mediatek wireless adapters don't have any support yet despite being out for quite a while. I can't remember what model it is specifically, will edit the post with that when I get home.
What we can do if vendor decided to not support WiFi card driver for linux and about CPU is strange what CPU did u have that it was not working for u .also about wifi get Intel adapter
I'm guessing the old CPU was simply defective, and they needed to replace it to install any os.
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