Wifi drivers... had a search and looks like google says there isnt... is that the end?

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hey everyone… been on rocky for a while now & love it.. now ive always used Ethernet, but i might be moving and there is no Ethernet option for me… i dont seem to have wifi drivers,

ive had a search on google & it says not supported… is that is 100% then?

MEDIATEK 7902

CheerS!

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Maybe ask elrepo and see if they would provide it? It’s possible, that it’s already in their kernel anyway, so you could try:

dnf install elrepo-release
dnf config-manager --enable elrepo-kernel
dnf install kernel-ml

there is also kernel-lt as well, which is an LTS kernel, rather than ml which is mainline and more up-to-date. Both are 6.x kernels.

If neither of them work, then make a request with elrepo in case they can make a kmod for it to work with default Rocky kernels.

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thanks for that, can i ask as im trying to learn… what is a kernel… think of it just like drivers? or does it change something?

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Is there away of undoing that?? My Nvidia doesn’t load now & my computer keeps rebooting….

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Even Windows has a kernel. Your system uses it to boot, it has modules which are effectively your drivers. If the kernel like RHEL/Rocky doesn’t have a driver/module for your wifi card, then the module needs to be built.

There could be a few reasons for that. One, the RHEL kernel isn’t built with the module for your wifi card (or whatever other hardware you might have), Two, the module is there but an old one and therefore doesn’t work if you have new hardware. Three, RHEL has a tendency to deprecate old hardware as well therefore when a new release is made, older drivers that used to work, then stop working.

ELREPO builds kernel modules to install when some of the above situations have arisen. And these can be used with the RHEL/Rocky kernels. They may not have built one for your wifi card, but then you can ask them if they would do it. Or as mentioned, you can use their kernel-lt or kernel-ml packages that are most likely built to support a lot more hardware than the RHEL/Rocky kernels.

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Yes, reboot into the old kernel that you can see on the grub menu before your computer starts. Or, install the nvidia module into the kernel you installed.

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Okay I’ll try…. As its now saying low disk space… ill keep trying as im trying to learn, save having to ask here all the time

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You’ll need to check what partition is short on disk space. If you only installed kernels, then either / or /boot.