lspci does not list any WiFi adapter.
Running inxi -Fxz --> Network Message: No device data found.
Trying to install on a Positivo Technologia Laptop.
The wifi Device description from the drivers download on Positivo is:
RTL8723
DriverVer = 06/06/2017,3008.54.0414.2017
This was pulled from the inf driver download.
The WiFi card is enabled in Bios, and was working with windows 10.
There is no Ethernet cable port on the laptop.
The linux Kernel is 14.5.
Some forum posts online showed issues with an older kernel back in 2016 with a broadcom driver.
Or you could try running Ubuntu/Mint 18 - for my Broadcom adapter I believe kernel support was dropped after 4.15 - I was able to install a driver in a newer kernel but the performance was unreliable - so I’m stuck with 18 for now on one machine. Boot into the live OS first and check that wireless adapter is detected!
Best option, assuming you’d like to run a newer kernel (Ubuntu 20 releases Thursday!), might be installing a different adapter… I think Intel adapters are well supported in Linux - someone else probably has a better answer on that. Not particularly expensive or difficult.
This is probably a noob question, is there an easy way I can download the drivers from this command from the form post you provided: sudo apt install git build-essential dkms
Onto a USB and copy to the machine without internet and then install on the machine without internet?
the phone would maybe work, you can download build-essential and dkms (you might have dkms already) as .deb files and install them that way. then download whatever driver and install that, but the problem is your wifi isnt even being detected in hardware so I doubt installing the kernel module for it will do anything for you.
Have a working laptop that is faster than running windows.
It has an atom processor and 2gb memory. On windows its hardly usable, vs in linux which is significantly faster.
19, but it is possible to go to any other version or even different distro, so long as it looks and functions similar the windows UI. As it is for a friend of mine.
@ryan10x, That chispet does not have mainline support. You will need to build this from scratch. The only way to get this to work possibly out of the box would be to use a bleeding edge distro and even then, they may not package that driver.
As mentioned, the best bet would be to get an Intel WiFi adaptor to replace the internal card or get a USB dongle wifi chipset as linked above.
The add in card is the better option if this is for a friend as the out of tree module would need to be rebuilt when upgrading the kernel unless you script something to take care of that for you. That is until Realtek gets their act together and actually complies with mainline requirements to get the module into mainline.