
On 7/10/21 3:42 PM, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 at 18:30:08 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 10/07/2021 17.33, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
My new computer is an
HP 15s-eq2147 FHD RYZ5-5 16GB 512 SSD DOS
It has no cable connection to the internet, but only access via WiFi.
My _personal_ choice, is never buy a laptop without Ethernet connector.
I did not check it when I bought the laptop because I could not imagine that such a basic thing was lacking. It's like buying an automobile and noticing only at home that it has no engine. If had seen it before, I would have chosen another model. But when, even with your help, I don't succeed to connect it to the internet, I will bring it back to the store on Monday.
This is not like a car with no engine. It is a car with an engine that has a "bug" in it, as even the newest sometimes do. The driver was installed on your machine, but the specific version you have has a problem. That is why Stefan - your car mechanic, in this case - is pointing you to a version which he has fixed (patched). Just a suggestion: Before buying a new (/especially/, new) machine that you want to put Linux on, it is IMHO important to get all the hardware/software specifications first and then verify that that particular machine works ok with the distro you want to install or at least a version that is similar/current (i.e., if it works with one current major distro, most of the time it can be made to work with other distros). With this HP machine, you were just bitten by some bad luck - now you have a workaround and you know it is supported (btw, googling "opensuse 15.3 RTL8821CE", the 2nd hit took me to Stefan's patch; I got the specs from the HP site). With the Acer, a look at all the specs revealed that the Endless OS version of linux was on that machine, which would have saved a lot of time trying to figure out what was booting (and also confirmed that the SSD was OK). Researching a machine first pays off in lots of ways. --dg