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CAPSLOCKFTW ,

Hey there. Some wifi chipsets need special drivers under linux. Which laptop do you have?

Edit: if it is an internal chipset you can find out which one exactly via lspci in a terminal

VikingHippie OP ,

Hi! It’s a HP Envy and ironically I’d have to reinstall Windows to tell you more specifically without further information…

Except it’s old. We’re talking so old that a hardware benchmarking site said that the graphics card performance is “terrible” and the only thing in the pro column of their review was “consistency”. That’s consistently terrible, mind you 😂

Oops, got a bit sidetracked there! My apologies!

CAPSLOCKFTW ,

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
VikingHippie OP ,

That worked! Thank you so much!

CAPSLOCKFTW ,

You’re welcome!

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