I tried running fedora on my pc today, booted up through usb and just tried using it off the usb to test stuff. It looked like fedora was thinking that there is a battery plugged into my computer (might have been my UPS) which is really weird and i dont know if detects battery as ups or it think i am running a laptop. Second it does not detect my wifi adapter that is built into my motheboard. I have a Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ???
I don’t know anything about the battery part, but my first question is does the fedora live session even see the wifi chip
you can open a terminal and run the following commands and see what devices are listed
nmcli dev
lspci
nmcli will probably return something like unmanaged on the wifi, but if it doesn’t show it, lspci should show it as a device
if the wifi is unmanaged then I would start looking to see if it’s just some package are missing or if services aren’t running. if they aren’t running then it’s should be as simple as starting them, but if they aren’t installed… it’s a live session you can install and do what you need, but you will have to do that every time unless you reroll the image to include the packages
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For new hardware you need a more recent kernel.
Your wificard SHOULD have support in the latest kernel (4.14). Try typing…
uname -r
into a terminal and see what it says. If your kernel is 4.13 or lower, you need to update your kernel. If it says 4.14 or higher, you may still be facing an issue where you need a slightly newer kernel.
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I am going to check right now. Just asking if it is the kernal, how would I update the Kernel. Sorry for the noob question??
Do you have a Broadcom chip?
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no it is a Realtek.
Ya i checked the kernel it is on live usb 4.13.9-300, so if i install it in my ssd and update kernal it should work right ?
Its Realtek
I wrote this in terminal and it wrote back this
loo unmanged
eth umnanged
looks like your wireless isn’t supported out of the box, it doesn’t show up as an interface. installing to a drive would allow you to try and get the wireless working, but first I would ask some questions.
do you really need to install it on hardware? you said that you were trying it out off the usb, would a Virtual Machine handle what you need this for?
If you do want it on the hardware, then I would ask if you can provide it with a wired connection while you get the wireless working. It is not impossible to get the wireless working without a wired connection, just much easier.
again, if your ready to do all that, then your ready to proceed. boot the live session again and run the “lspci -vnn” and find your wireless chip, does it say it has a kernel driver in use. if it does great, otherwise need to look up your chip and see what you need to install on your system to get it to run. if it has a driver already in the kernel then it’s probably something to do with the packages. both of these will mean installing fedora to a drive and installing packages, so the wired connection is important
Apparently the WiFi module is under the Io shield. If it is indeed removable, remove it and install an appropriate Intel WiFi module instead.
in theory yes
No need i just updated my kernel to 4.4.13 and it worked. Plugged it into my router with ethernet, then updated Fedora and kernel and my onboard wifi on motherboard got detected.
Thanks for advice, updated kernel and it worked. Now I am running fedora on my ssd and wifi works.
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cool.
Just keep in mind for the future. The newer your hardware is, the newer the kernel needs to be.
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