To check the status of secure boot: mokutil -sb-state To verify if your system is installed in UEFI mode, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command: & echo 'EFI' || echo 'BIOS'Ģ. If you have your system installed in UEFI mode, you have to disable secure boot first.ġ. The drivers are built in DKMS mode that will work ( rebuild automatically) even after update to new Kernel series. The guy also maintains another PPA with packages for: To make life easier, the kablosuz-wireless PPA maintains the driver packages for: Advanced users may go to that page, grab the source and build by yourself. There’s a github repository that maintains RTL8822BE, RTL8822CE, RTL8821CE, RTL8723DE, RTL8723AU, RTL8723BU, RTL8188EU driver source codes. For USB Wi-Fi adapter, go find it under “ Devices -> USB Devices“.įor those familiar Linux command, use lspci command to find integrated network card or lsusb for USB adapter:

Then, find out the network controller information in the right. When it opens, navigate to “ Devices -> PCI Devices“. Install ' hardinfo' via Ubuntu Software or Synaptic Package Manager if you don't have it. In Ubuntu or Linux Mint, you may just search for and open “ hardinfo” (aka, System Profiler and Benchmark) either from start menu or ‘Activities’ overview. How to Tell Which Wi-Fi Chipset you have?įirstly, you may want to find out the device name of your wireless network card. Thanks to the open-source community, there are always a group of people maintaining missing drivers. But, there are still some devices lack out-of-box support. Linux Kernel keeps updating with new device drivers.

Missing Wi-Fi drivers for your Ubuntu or Linux Mint PC? If you happen to have Realtek Wi-Fi adapter, this tutorial may help to install the driver.

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