Wireless Adaptor and In-Built Wi-Fi adaptor is not working [Laptop : Dell Latitude 3460] but works on the Desktop out of the box.
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Modules: mt7601u,mac80211,cfg80211
in nmcli is showing “unavailable” and “sw disabled”, then I tried “sudo rfkill unblock wifi”.
Even then not working.
But when is tried “sudo wpa_supplicant -Dnl8022 -iwlp0s20u1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf” it connects to a network ,“CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED” in the end but can’t access to internet. [ no ip address was assigned]
then i tired “sudo ip addr add 192.168.1.200/24 dev wlp0s20u1” and “sudo ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp0s20u1”
But can’t access the internet.
And in the case of In-Built Wireless
Name : Qualcomm Atheros AR9462
Module: ath9k, ath9k_common, ath9k_hw, mac80211,cfg80211
in nmcli is showing “unavailable” and “sw disabled”, then I tried “sudo rfkill unblock wifi”.
Even then not working.
In “sudo wpa_supplicant -Dnl8022 -iinterface_name -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf” it says its hard blocked
“Hard blocked” usually means wifi is disabled by a physical key or switch. On my Latitude 7480 the PrtScr key has a blue radio tower label, so “Fn+PrtScr” is supposed to toggle airplane mode. On some models the required key may have an airplane label.
I have my in-built keyboard physically Disabled and I’m using external keyboard
Is there any way to get the external Wi-Fi adaptor to work
And Thank you!!
The mt7921au driver must include the VID/PID that your adapter uses in order for the adapter to be plug and play per the above guidance. Adapter makers may use custom company VID/PID numbers. If this is the case, a patch needs to be submitted to the linux-wireless list in order for the VID/PID to be merged into the mainline and latest LTS as needed. An example of this situation currently is the Netgear A8000 adapter. For more information and a temporary workaround, see the section about the Netgear A8000 below.
so your USB wifi should be supported, but this support is quite new so may be buggy. The site has user reports that include some strange issues like problems with USB3. Have a look to see if any match your situation.
[Edit] Sorry, post about audio output was meant for another thread.
The link for WIFI Adapters with in kernel support has this:
Note: The mt7921au driver must include the VID/PID that your adapter uses in order for the adapter to be plug and play per the above guidance. Adapter makers may use custom company VID/PID numbers. If this is the case, a patch needs to be submitted to the linux-wireless list in order for the VIS[SIC – should be VID]/PID to be merged into the mainline and latest LTS as needed. An example of this situation currently is the Netgear A8000 adapter. For more information and a temporary workaround, see the section about the Netgear A8000 below.
Network drivers can have have many options to support “features” of different vendor-specific modifications to a give “model”. You should
check Intel’s linux wifi pages and forums specific to your laptop model.
i removed wpa_supplicant and installed iwd, i was able to connect to Wi-Fi but ip address was not assigned so i used dhclient to solve that and it worked but can’t access the internet, but ping works, nslookup works, openvpn works [ can’t access internet even after being connected ], i think it is having DNS problem [ i was not able to solve that].
This is the case of external adaptor, in-built adaptor is still not working.
I think older Fedora versions included drivers that have since moved to rpmfusion due to license terms blocking distribution by RedHat. There may also be components that were modified due to security problems. Testing on legacy hardware is up to the people who still have older gear. A few times I have encountered bugs introduced by mistakes made when “fixing” security problems. In nearly all cases others had contributed patches (easily applied back before cryptographic signing).
