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To: Openurmind
"Let me wrap my head around the exact situation here... There is not a packaged .tar driver file you can download to your windows computer and then transfer over and extract it in the proper place in the Linux computer?"

There is simply no shown detection any of the 3 USB wireless adapters, thus no "add driver" option. On my own PC I have found two files that I decompressed,

rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.4.1_22719.20170613_COEX20170518-4444.tar

rtl8821AU_linux_v4.3.14_13455.20150212_BTCOEX20150128-51.tar

However, where to put them and how to make Linux work with them I know not, and think the Kubuntu solution would be better.

72 posted on 07/09/2021 5:49:45 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

I get it... Let me know if it works. In the meantime I will indeed chase down where to stick a driver file. But usually there is a “readme” or “install” text file included with directions. Once moved over to a Linux folder, Linux will let you read that file even though it is still compressed in the Tar package and not extracted yet. It should tell you where to put it.

Thing is, they keep moving those folders around in different versions. Correct folder, it just might not always be where it was when the directions were written. So some digging around to find that right folder is a normal thing. Wish they would quit that... But MS does it too. :)


73 posted on 07/09/2021 5:59:18 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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