I recently took the toe dip of installing Lubuntu (22.04.2 LTS Jammy Jellyfish) on my old laptop.

I’m generally happy with how everything runs almost immeasurably better on it than with windows 10, but I have one significant issue: I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make wireless internet work in it.

I can get online just fine plugging in my ethernet cable or doing USB tethering from my phone, but my phone doesn’t have unlimited data and I sometimes leave my apartment, so it’s not exactly ideal…

Anyone able to help or point me to someone/something that can?

  • CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    No problem. As my edit above says, you can find out the exact chipset model this way:

    1. Open a Terminal Emulator (xterm, kitty, konsole, yakuake…)
    2. Enter lspci
    3. Find the wifi chipset in the output (probably realtek) or post the output here if you have trouble finding it
    4. Search for [chipset name] ubuntu drivers
    5. There will be results with specific instructions for your chipset