Why My Device Wont Work in Linux - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Alkaris
When I installed my Asus PCE-AC88 Wi-Fi card, it wouldn't work at all, and I had to do some really complicated stuff just to get a working firmware for the Wi-Fi card. I had to extract the Wi-Fi drivers from an Asus AC5300 Wireless Router/Modem from it's firmware image, find a specific line to copy and extract into its own separate firmware file, and it be hard to figure out if you actually copied the correct stuff over for it to work just to get the brcmutil and brcmfmac drivers to work with the card by using a HEX Editor, which I found to be really convoluted way just to get the firmware drivers I needed.
I wish Asus just freely shared their device drivers that they use for their routers for Linux, cuz its not like they can't support Linux if their routers are running embedded Linux systems.
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When I installed my Asus PCE-AC88 Wi-Fi card, it wouldn't work at all, and I had to do some really complicated stuff just to get a working firmware for the Wi-Fi card. I had to extract the Wi-Fi drivers from an Asus AC5300 Wireless Router/Modem from it's firmware image, find a specific line to copy and extract into its own separate firmware file, and it be hard to figure out if you actually copied the correct stuff over for it to work just to get the brcmutil and brcmfmac drivers to work with the card by using a HEX Editor, which I found to be really convoluted way just to get the firmware drivers I needed.
I wish Asus just freely shared their device drivers that they use for their routers for Linux, cuz its not like they can't support Linux if their routers are running embedded Linux systems.
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Reece
Now when I did -ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh -l- a version was not shown in my Kubuntu. Using cpu-x showed me (it was 5.4.something) so I did -sudo ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh -i- which did what it should not have done because I didn't sudo it. A reboot showed that it had in fact not done what it indicated it had done so I re executed the command with sudo. It did the job because now I don't have the other ttys 2-5 but no gui and I don't remember how to not fast boot so I can see the grub menu. I'll find it eventually I usually do but it's a pain to keep having rediscover it
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Now when I did -ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh -l- a version was not shown in my Kubuntu. Using cpu-x showed me (it was 5.4.something) so I did -sudo ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh -i- which did what it should not have done because I didn't sudo it. A reboot showed that it had in fact not done what it indicated it had done so I re executed the command with sudo. It did the job because now I don't have the other ttys 2-5 but no gui and I don't remember how to not fast boot so I can see the grub menu. I'll find it eventually I usually do but it's a pain to keep having rediscover it
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Leslie
You don't need the ./ if the program or script is in your path. Also a link can be in the path in place of the script or program, and it will run as well.
I have Linux Mint, and can't see why I would need this, since the Update manger gives a new kernel almost weekly. Also the old ones don't flush out unless you go into the Update Manager in edit, preferences, Automatic Maintenance and turn it on. This only seems to be a problem with encrypted hard drives with the root partition on it, otherwise there is plenty of space for the old kernels.
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You don't need the ./ if the program or script is in your path. Also a link can be in the path in place of the script or program, and it will run as well.
I have Linux Mint, and can't see why I would need this, since the Update manger gives a new kernel almost weekly. Also the old ones don't flush out unless you go into the Update Manager in edit, preferences, Automatic Maintenance and turn it on. This only seems to be a problem with encrypted hard drives with the root partition on it, otherwise there is plenty of space for the old kernels.
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can a linux iso be put on a dvd instead of using a USB flash drive? i cant get it to work off my usb drive no matter what. once the iso is flashed, my pc doesnt recognize the drive anymore. and also it does something weird when creating my iso on the flash drive. the file is 2gb but my 16gb and 32gb usb flash drives both only show a formatted area of 3.8mb and doesnt register the rest of the drive and again, once the usb drive is flashed, cant be recognized by my pc. any info would be much appreciated. thank you
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can a linux iso be put on a dvd instead of using a USB flash drive? i cant get it to work off my usb drive no matter what. once the iso is flashed, my pc doesnt recognize the drive anymore. and also it does something weird when creating my iso on the flash drive. the file is 2gb but my 16gb and 32gb usb flash drives both only show a formatted area of 3.8mb and doesnt register the rest of the drive and again, once the usb drive is flashed, cant be recognized by my pc. any info would be much appreciated. thank you
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Eviscerate
I got a question. I've owned 2 different custom built PCs. Despite the problem. I continued to use Linux for long periods of time before just going back to windows. But the audio is always crackling and staticy. But it's usually when adjust volume. Now the biggest problem. Is microphone is staticy and poor quality on Debian, Ubuntu, Void, Fedora. I've tried distro hopping to solve audio problems. But this is a reason I always end up going back to Windows.
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I got a question. I've owned 2 different custom built PCs. Despite the problem. I continued to use Linux for long periods of time before just going back to windows. But the audio is always crackling and staticy. But it's usually when adjust volume. Now the biggest problem. Is microphone is staticy and poor quality on Debian, Ubuntu, Void, Fedora. I've tried distro hopping to solve audio problems. But this is a reason I always end up going back to Windows.
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S-awek
Thank you for tip with tlp - it solved my wifi issue on Mint. For some reason the connection would not come up after reboot or sleep or basically would go away when turned on for prolonged periods of time. Looks like the kernel was powering it down and it just would not come up again. Looks like kernel 5.xx has some aggresive power management enabled by default as it powers down my audio too - which causes loud hum on my speakers - now it's all solved.
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Thank you for tip with tlp - it solved my wifi issue on Mint. For some reason the connection would not come up after reboot or sleep or basically would go away when turned on for prolonged periods of time. Looks like the kernel was powering it down and it just would not come up again. Looks like kernel 5.xx has some aggresive power management enabled by default as it powers down my audio too - which causes loud hum on my speakers - now it's all solved.
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Ben
Thank you for what you do. After about a dozen of your videos and many others i have ordered a new ssd, flash drive (i only had a tiny 128mb old thing) so i can keep my windows (for now) and start playing around with Pop OS. This is all in preperation for a new build when prices and availability get to what they should be. I also have an older acer laptop that came with windows, how likely am i to get Pop OS to work on that?
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Thank you for what you do. After about a dozen of your videos and many others i have ordered a new ssd, flash drive (i only had a tiny 128mb old thing) so i can keep my windows (for now) and start playing around with Pop OS. This is all in preperation for a new build when prices and availability get to what they should be. I also have an older acer laptop that came with windows, how likely am i to get Pop OS to work on that?
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non
Just out of curiosity, does anyone still build their custom kernel these days (well, apart maybe from the Gentoo or LFS folks)?
I remember having done this, when LVM support was introduced to Linux, because its main developer Heinz Mauelshagen made its user space lvm management commands' interface look and behave like those of HP-UX LVM.
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone still build their custom kernel these days (well, apart maybe from the Gentoo or LFS folks)?
I remember having done this, when LVM support was introduced to Linux, because its main developer Heinz Mauelshagen made its user space lvm management commands' interface look and behave like those of HP-UX LVM.
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Trenjeska
It is not only about devices, also about software compatibility. My favourite game COULD work on linux (and it did with Wine), but they added software into it to explicitly not work under linux anymore (Easy Anti Cheat)
So unless software manufatures are forbidden to willfully make software uncompatible, I cannot switch to linux
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It is not only about devices, also about software compatibility. My favourite game COULD work on linux (and it did with Wine), but they added software into it to explicitly not work under linux anymore (Easy Anti Cheat)
So unless software manufatures are forbidden to willfully make software uncompatible, I cannot switch to linux
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Rubescent
I use LMDE4 and I just tried to install the liquorix and when I went to boot my pc it just was a black screen with no cursor or anything for several minutes I waited and nothing, tried switching back to the original kernel same result, ended up having to reinstall everything to get it back to working order :/
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I use LMDE4 and I just tried to install the liquorix and when I went to boot my pc it just was a black screen with no cursor or anything for several minutes I waited and nothing, tried switching back to the original kernel same result, ended up having to reinstall everything to get it back to working order :/
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