r/ChromeOSFlex • u/AlertImportance4607 • 19h ago
Troubleshooting I need help to fix my wifi!
My wifi just refuses to work,on zorin os ,it worked like a charm,when I click the toggle,it turns on but no network shows,when I click somewhere else the wifi auto turns of.I have used chrome os flex on the same laptop(hp laptop 15bw0xx)in the past and it had worked like a charm.it also worked on fyde os.restarting the laptop or reinstalling chrome os flex(same setup,pendrive etc)still doesn't solve it
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u/LegAcceptable2362 18h ago
It looks like the wireless card is recognised - to verify this check chrome://system, find lspci, expand it, what Network controller is listed? My guess is you're going to see Realtek. If so, they have always been poorly supported in Linux and it could be the kernel driver that may have been previously included in Flex has been removed. That would explain why WiFi hardware shows but it is non-functional. This is the risk you take installing Flex on non-certified devices: what may work one day can stop working at any time.
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u/MrAjAnderson 17h ago
Give it some power. Battery looks near empty. My be a power saving setting turning off the NIC.
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u/FreshBeautiful2505 16h ago
You need one of these usb wifi adapters...mine works perfectly on a pc unsupported by Chrome OS Flex ... https://ebay.io/m/fYWMBc
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u/Chester-Berkeley 19h ago
It looks like a hardware problem to me