I am currently trying to escape Windows and want to switch to Linux Mint as my daily driver.

However when I first tried it on a spare laptop everything worked except the WiFi. A kernel update fixed it because it also has ethernet.

My question is can I boot to a live USB on the ethernet laptop, update the kernel on the live USB and use that on the other laptop to install mint with working WiFi?

I tried to use the internet from my phone via Bluetooth but it was so slow it was unusable.

If this is a dumb question I apologise as I’ve been using Linux for less than a day at this point.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I’m no pro, so I don’t know if your solution would work.

    But I’ve had a cheap USB Ethernet dongle lying around and I’ve had to use that whenever WiFi hasn’t worked on my laptop (without an Ethernet port) with fresh distro installs.