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linux drivers question
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 09:25 amOne of my brother's old computers boots ok from an old 2015 Knoppix live CD. The wireless connection works too that way.
But using Linux Mint XFCE 18.1 (which supposedly works better on older devices than the current 19.1 version), wireless doesn't work and it shows "No network devices available".
I did a search, and found this set of instructions for that particular Wifi card:
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/155
But it sounds a bit complicated for me, a newbie to Linux.
Rather than doing that, I was wondering... Is there an easy way to copy the necessary drivers from Knoppix to Linux Mint? Ie., boot to Knoppix, find and copy the driver files to the hard drive, then boot to Linux Mint, and somehow install them?
But using Linux Mint XFCE 18.1 (which supposedly works better on older devices than the current 19.1 version), wireless doesn't work and it shows "No network devices available".
I did a search, and found this set of instructions for that particular Wifi card:
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/155
But it sounds a bit complicated for me, a newbie to Linux.
Rather than doing that, I was wondering... Is there an easy way to copy the necessary drivers from Knoppix to Linux Mint? Ie., boot to Knoppix, find and copy the driver files to the hard drive, then boot to Linux Mint, and somehow install them?