This device is not supported by Linux yet!
daalvarez@laptop:~/Downloads$ lspci | grep Network
0000:02:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7902
Check:
https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=97a323caf9
In order to circumvent this problem I bought a USB with the chipset RTL8188FU 802.11N from AliExpress:
daalvarez@laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter
Linux does not recognize it out of the box. Therefore, I used the drivers and instructions in:
https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu
with the following modifications (given that they are for Debian-based distributions, and I am using Fedora):
Instead of
sudo apt-get install build-essential git dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Do:
sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf install dkms git
Then reboot and continue with ...
sudo dkms install ./rtl8188fu
etc ...
Down below, use the instructions for DRACUT below instead of the ones for INITRAMFS.
Reboot again, and you now have WIFI in your laptop.
