fossapup cannot find my wifi adapter

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fossapup cannot find my wifi adapter

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Lenovo x1 carbon v7. Older versions of puppy worked, and this one works on another computer (Dell desktop). What next? Thanks.

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Re: fossapup cannot find my wifi adapter

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This is usually a missing firmware or kernel driver issue.

Because laptops have switches to turn WIFI on/off
See if it is turned on

To determine if it is Hard Blocked. In a terminal (console):

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 rfkill list all

wlan0 is usually the wifi

If it indicates it is hard blocked.
There is a switch on the laptop that turns it off/on.
Press that switch and rerun

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 rfkill list all

to see if it worked to stop the hard block.

If no help.

We need to know exactly what the WIFI hardware is identified as.

This topic, has the commands to enter in a terminal, to provide the needed information.
viewtopic.php?p=3547#p3547

When we know exactly what the hardware is, we can probably provide what you need to add to Fossapup64 9.5

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