How to enable Wifi drivers in Linux

How to enable Wifi drivers in Linux


Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: basic understanding of Linux command line
basic understanding of hardware related commands.


In this video, we will look at how to enable the wifi drivers when the system doesnt automatically recognize the hardware devices.

Video timeline
00:00 intro
00:40 network interface discovery: ifconfig, ip, iwconfig
00:53 PCI components: lspci
01:58 Networking hardware: lshw, inxi
02:24 Kernel Module listing: lsmod
02:52 Loading kernel modules: modprobe
03:33 Verify modules in use
04:04 Verify networking interfaces

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[redescubriendo]

Stuff like this is why Windows will never be dethroned.

[rfdunbar]

Best video on yt regarding this subject! Thanks for posting!

[gradom.mp]

The entire procees in this video is same as shown in my device which is zorin 16 in it and my chipset is BCM43142 but when i pass lspci command it not showing the kernel module line after subsystem

[Peter-uod]

Will this work with tails os? Same thing with me it shows no wifi adaptor or drivers so I can't run tails os

[radiusbecka]

Thanks I think I it looks like when I ran "sudo modprobe wlwifi it worked." I think the powersave settings messed with the wifi stuff

[babelcria]

Thank you I adapted to connect my Dell laptop to wifi

[nicolasrestrepo]

Like, subscribe and everything, this saved my life, thought I was gonna go through the pain of going back to windows. Thanks a lot! The most useful and easy solution for this issue by far.

[Richardpasquinucci]

does this work on all distros of Linux.

[pulkitjain]

Solution didn't worked for me,
lspci command didn't show kernel module line and showed nvme kernel driver which was also mentioned in output of lsmod command ans modprobe command didn't do anything

[skywalkdesign]

@BlueMonkey 4n6, in Rocky Linux 'ipconfig' and 'iwconfig - command not found!!! 😱
'lspci -knn | grep Network -A3' or 'lspci -knn | grep -e Network -A3' don't return anything. 😞
I am frustrated. 😭

[Ryan.Dias]

My wifi on laptop was working fine. After updating, no wifi. I am on Debian bookworm 12.8 and running the lspci command shows, kernel modules: iwlwifi. Running lshw command shows, command not found. Running inxi command shows, command not found. lsmod command shows iwlwifi is loaded. sudo modprobe iwlwifi does nothing.

[silvaa]

Thanks for the video!

Now i can connect to the wifi, but the internet still doesn't work for some reason.

The drivers are installed and updated for the network adapter and i restarted the pc and router.

The weird thing is i can connect to my phone hotspot via wifi and the internet works, does that mean its a problem with the router or are some settings messed up in my install?

Thanks in advance!

[pleaseenteraname]

Is this common problem as I have suffered from this few times but I do get ethernet, I just reboot and wifi works again Im excited to run into it again to try and solve it this way. is there any way I can self induce this problem?

[VictiniMujigae]

What Linux distro is this?

Trying to do this in Arch Linux Install Media is fairly frustrating for me…

[augustinejoseph]

When i ran :lspci -knn l grep Network -A3


There is no line named kernal module, where can i find kernal module name

[Kimjiyoo]

I'm using ubuntu server. When I type 'lspci -knn | grep Network -A3' I can't see any kernel modules. What can I do? 😢

[tsa_]

Can you help me my LAN and wifi is not showing, internet is not coming and none of the icons are showing.

[aadityamaharaj]

It’s saying that the command Lshw not found what do I do?

[muflihkaradan]

I have mediatek chipset.how do I solve this??..please reply

[lucasryan]

On the lspci command I got nothing. I did tried to modprobe for the iwlwifi since I’m using an intel core, but still, nothing works…