Glad to say that I’ve recently made the switch from Debian to Fedora.
However, after having installed Fedora on my Desktop, the Wifi option is not showing up and I’m having some trouble trying to find the appropriate driver for my USB based wifi adapter.
Some further info:
Connecting via ethernet to install the drivers is not an option
Output from uname -r command is 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64
First, I suggest to make an update to the current version as 5.17.5 is not up to date: sudo dnf update (if you have any interim alternative for Internet)
Second, we need more information: what Fedora do you use? Workstation, KDE spin, or such? Have you installed it using the respective live system? Or did you use, e.g., the everything image?
What wireless hardware do you use? You can find out with lsusb as your adapter is USB.
Third, it should be already installed by default, but if you use Workstation or KDE, check out if NetworkManager-wifi is installed: sudo dnf install NetworkManager-wifi . Just to be sure that this is not the origin.
We can find this out offline as well: What is the output of dnf list installed | grep NetworkManager-wifi ?
That would be important to know, too How and what did you install. If you are unsure, just let us know which file at getfedora.org you did use to install.
Was your Wireless USB device plugged in when getting the lsusb output? Just to exclude this as origin: does the wireless USB device work on other machines?
Am I right that you cut the output of lsusb? Please add the whole command line output; so it should look like
bash-5.1$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Please use ` at the beginning and end of the output when posting here. This makes it easier to read.
Generally, feel free to add any information of the USB wireless device you can see on it. Maybe there is a model name printed on the device? Or find out using your Windows?
Apologies. I believe this is more along the lines of what you’re looking for. I believe the highlighted output is my wifi adapter.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2109:0813 VIA Labs, Inc. VL813 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1038:1618 SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0ab7 Logitech, Inc. Blue Microphones
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1038:12ad SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 7
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05a3:9332 ARC International Camera - 1080p
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c547 Logitech, Inc. USB Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:2813 VIA Labs, Inc. VL813 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Apologies. I think this is what you’re looking for. I’m of the impression that the highlighted option is my wifi adapter.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2109:0813 VIA Labs, Inc. VL813 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:c811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1038:1618 SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0ab7 Logitech, Inc. Blue Microphones
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 1038:12ad SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Arctis 7
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05a3:9332 ARC International Camera - 1080p
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c547 Logitech, Inc. USB Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:2813 VIA Labs, Inc. VL813 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Complementary, do you still have the USB device with the Workstation live system you used to install Fedora? Can you start it and test if the live system is able to manage the WiFi device, show the WiFi networks around and such?
No worries. I just meant to check on the Fedora live system if the wireless device can be used: start the live system and check on the graphical desktop if you can see the wireless networks, as you would do it when you search your home wireless network in order to connect to it. This would be just to exclude that the issue is related to any setting made in anaconda (that’s the installer) during the installation.