No WIFI on ASUS Vivobook 15

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.