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abhishek10

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Registered: 2024-08-29

Posts: 7

USB Wifi Dongle Problem

i am using Q4OS Aquarius, Plasma, i am new user i have a wifi usb dongle "ID 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter" but wifi not working how to fix this driver problem please help..

hchiper

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: USB Wifi Dongle Problem

From this post on Debian forum it seems your hardware need a linux kernel >= 6.4. The problem is that Debian 12 (and hence Q4OS 5) uses kernel 6.1.
You can see these posts:
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4610
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.ph … 320#p24320

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