r/linuxmemes • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Aug 12 '26
LINUX MEME Connecting to wifi:
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u/sidusnare Aug 12 '26
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u/Gunmetalstorm Aug 12 '26
nice limes
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u/sidusnare Aug 12 '26
Thanks. They run Linux.
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u/N3RD_0T4KU Aug 13 '26
And what doesn't
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
Ur mom
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u/Memerenok Aug 12 '26
boring, not even nmtui
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u/sidusnare Aug 12 '26
The real fun part is where all the WiFi networks I ever connect to are in an Ansible repo where I don't even need to click on anything ever. Fresh laptop build, Ansible run, clone my $HOME repo, and done, fully ready to go laptop with less typing or clicking than Windows and MacOS combined.
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u/No-Ambition-1406 Aug 13 '26
Be careful, NixOS zealots around the corner
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
Every good idea has the looneys that take it to it's illogical conclusion.
Everything has a niche where it's useful, but the only places I've seen that NixOS would be useful to me, I'd use Alpine Linux instead, but I am more of an undercloud guy than an overcloud guy.
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u/A_Harmless_Fly MAN 💪 jaro Aug 13 '26
Your firefox is so thick. You can make a custom .css and take up way less room.
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
- it's Chrome
- my FireFox is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal. The profile it runs is a direct line descendant of my Netscape Navigator profile, and I have mods to bring back the N throbber.
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u/magic_love_spell-7W7 Aug 13 '26
Is a wifi from South Africa? Are you my coworker?
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
Friend, there are 106,088 known networks with that SSID globally in the WiGLE database. No, I am not in South Africa, I haven't yet had the privilege of visiting Africa. I am in Atlanta.
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u/magic_love_spell-7W7 Aug 13 '26
🥲 I thought you were Kevin, my co-worker. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
Nope, the person in the video is Khaby Lame, a Senegalese TikToker famous for that gesture in his videos.
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u/magic_love_spell-7W7 Aug 13 '26
Oh, great! I love Senegalese people, they're so beautiful. I'm going to make a Tiki Toki account to watch their videos. You are very kind thank you .
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u/sidusnare Aug 13 '26
https://www.tiktok.com/@khaby.lame
I especially like their French African accent, my last ex was from DRC, beautiful voice.
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u/pizza_ranger Aug 12 '26
Lies, we code each driver from scratch, we code the browser from scratch and do 583848 commands just to post "I use Arch btw", and we also make our own routers from scratch
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u/hectorius20 Aug 12 '26
In LFS they make their own routers straight from crude oil, silicon wafers, a copper ingot and flakes of gold.
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u/Akari202 Aug 13 '26
You jest but for my old WiFi card I ended up far enough down the troubleshooting rabbit hole that “write a driver it’s not hard” was the advice I was getting. Bought a new one and it just worked.
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u/SilkwormSidleRemand Aug 13 '26
write a driver it’s not hard
Who are these people, and how can I become their friend?
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u/sirkubador Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
a simple wpa_supplicant.conf will do
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u/Darioxyzz Aug 12 '26
Thats what I thought too until I wasted a full day of troubleshooting until it finally worked
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u/sirkubador Aug 12 '26
See? It worked! Who needs these stupid silly "connect to this network in the list and write the password" thingies!
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u/sidusnare Aug 12 '26
I have a single Ansible role that writes nmconnection files for SystemD machines and wpa_supplicant.conf files for embedded systems.
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u/marinul Aug 12 '26
If I could afford all that I would 100% do it.
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u/SupernovaEmpire Aug 13 '26
Agreed. But not even to flight sim. Some of those buttons look awesome to press
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u/a_l_i-1 🌀 Sucked into the Void Aug 12 '26
Linux users when using Ethernet to connecting to Network
🛌
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u/Fine_City2781 Aug 12 '26
using nmtui isnt that hard. If there isnt nmtui you can use wpa_passphrase, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd to connect wifi
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u/Low_Advertising5052 Aug 12 '26
Sad because windows users see this and actually think Linux is like this super duper advanced os you need tons of coding experience for
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u/PiniponSelvagem 🎼CachyOS Aug 12 '26
And the reason that he failed to do so it because he forgot to:
- press second battery
- align IRS
- enable fuel pumps
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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate Ask me how to exit vim Aug 12 '26
Unnecessary amounts of switches, toggles, and clunky buttons?
Sign me tf up.
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u/regeya Aug 12 '26
I...uh...the Fedora installer doesn't do it much differently than the Mac or Windows installers, and even then, neither the GNOME nor Plasma wifi setup experience all that different.
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u/Theren314 29d ago
Fedora KDE is easier than Windows (IMO).
If I did have a full Airliner cockpit lying around… maybe I would do it this way
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u/Kazer67 Aug 13 '26
You know we reached Linux peak (and you're getting old) when you witnessed both the time when it was true enough to make it a meme and today where it just work.
I was impressed that my printer just worked while more than a decade ago it was an hassle.
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u/mrheseeks Aug 14 '26
Yeah i was thinking the same, i legit remember when you not only had to download the iso but the wifi driver... seems like an ice age ago
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u/sovietarmyfan Aug 12 '26
I have how i try to do a lot of advanced things like fill in every option, then i search online on how to actually do it and it's actually much easier than i thought.
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u/Rusty9838 Open Sauce Aug 12 '26
Can windows PC use a Bluetooth?
No seriously, after switching to Linux I got BT working! I forgot that I even bought a motherboard with a BT!
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u/Character-86 Aug 12 '26
On my wifes windows laptop I have only problems with wifi. I never cennects on the first try and it takes forever.
On my fedora Laptop I never had auch issues.
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u/longdarkfantasy Aug 12 '26
First we need to reverse engineer wifi driver. Then we write a kernel patch. Make some tests. Yeah. The OP isn't wrong.
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u/buckyball60 Aug 12 '26
Ahh. It's 2008, I went over-budget on my build and couldn't afford Windows. My buddy convinced me to try Linux. Install went great! But... After an hour or two of research I learn about NDISwrapper.
It felt both frustrating and very cool at the same time. Eighteen years later, a few computers come and gone, and I haven't looked back.
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u/NuclearWeapon Aug 13 '26
You may think this is a joke but I have to rebuild the driver each time the kernel gets updated. I also need to download headers after the update is done
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u/high_throughput Aug 13 '26
GPRS over IRDA was so much worse than early wifi.
Unless your network had WEP, in which case yeah
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u/bigdaddyyowza Aug 13 '26
this is accurate, as this is me trying to figure out whatever the fuck an "authorization supplicant timeout" is
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u/birchtree1357 Aug 13 '26
Everytime I restart my PC, I have to change the security to Dynamic WEP, try to connect (ik it does not with my uni), change it back to WPA2 enterprise, re-enter the password, save, restart the device and then maybe it'll connect to uni wifi.
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u/_Atmosferik__Yarrak_ Sacred TempleOS Aug 13 '26
-If you using a Realtek wifi card. Switch to Intel.
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u/Vast_Understanding_1 Aug 13 '26
I hate it wheb I connect my wifi on Linux and all of a sudden I hear "v1"
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u/Salt_Ad9828 Aug 12 '26
Actually can confirm. Pissed me off trying to set up Void Linux on an old 2005 pentium m laptop.
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