I think my internal wireless network card has died so I purchased a Brostrend BE6500 USB Adapter. When I plug it in, it does not light up, although my USB ports are USB 3.0.
Research on the internet said the adapter is compatible with Zorin but I don't think that's the issue.
All other USB 3.0 I have work in all laptop ports (4 of them). Is there a BIOS setting or something that needs to be changed? At a loss here.
Maybe Dead on Arrival? Or did You test it on another Machine? When You plug it in and type sudo lshw -C network what Output do You get? And what is the Output of rfkill list
You could look for a Settings that disables USB ports.
Here are the outputs from sudo lshw -C network and rfkill list.
Couldn't find any settings in BIOS that disabled USB ports.
I don't have another machine to test the adapter. All I can say is that any other USB 3.0 peripheral I plug in works.
Okay, that looks like from Your other Thread. So, it looks like the Stick isn't even detected.
I looked at it and when I found the right one, it should have Wifi 7. Is that correct?
Yes it does. Before purchase, I checked that it was compatible with Zorin. Unless what I found online was incorrect.
Wifi7 Support isn't so good on Linux because of lack of Driver Support. You could try it with a newer Kernel and see if it helps:
I would suggest to take Kernel 6.17. That is the latest stable Kernel.
Trying this now.
Actual problem is that the adapter doesn't even power up when plugged in.
With this ... I would come back to my Idea of Dead on Arrival or there are any Power Settings set up what blocks that.
Will have to try another machine to see if the adapter is, in fact, DOA! Thanks again!
I have a Brostrend Adapter on a PC, had the same issue. It wasn't plug & play. Had to go to the Brostrend website and they gave the command line codes to install the correct drivers. It may have even been on the documentation that came with it too. Not saying that is the issue with yours, but that's how I got mine to function.
Okay. Thanks. Will see what I can find.
Did yours power up before you installed the drivers or after?
I contacted Brostrend support and they informed me that their BE6500 does not support Linux.
Time to find another solution.
Thanks for the input everyone!
If you try another one, look at this model. I use it on a older dell that had bad wifi. It now runs Mint XFCE using this for the wifi.
Will look into it. Thanks again!
Since I updated to Kernel 6.17, I can no longer use my internal Broadcom wireless card. I tried purging broadcom-sta-dkms and then installing them but I now get an error.
The card is listed under Additional Drivers but I cannot activate it.
I select the proprietary driver here and apply changes, however, it doesn't work, despite being selected after clicking apply changes.
Kernel 6.17... That's... a very new kernel.
DKMS is Dynamic Kernel Module Support - it allows that you can shift an installed module to a later kernel rather than performing a fresh install of the module if the kernel gets a system upgrade.
But the DKMS file must contain a reference to an existing kernel. Which is logical.
If a later kernel was released which did not exist at the time the DKMS file was created... that file has no reason to believe that kernel exists.
And 6.17 is so new, I bet a very large number of DKMS files do not know it now exists.
The maintainer has included 6.17 in this report
Installing from a repository will not always get that latest version - you may need to grab it directly.
How can I revert to the previous Kernel?
I'm running Zorin 18 Beta.
I believe 18 loads at the 6.14 kernel.
If you reboot - access the Grub menu (If you have yours set to hidden, try tapping tab or esc at the motherboard splash screen with vigor to pull up the grub menu) and select Advanced Options - in the next menu, select Zorin on 6.14
Thanks! Have the card working again. Will I have to select Zorin on 6.14 at each login or restart?
Use this guide to set the older kernel to boot by default.
Keep in mind that it does not specify the kernel, but the current loaded kernel, so operates based on the kernel in use. Be booted into the 6.14 kernel to set the default.
