Lenovo laptop and change wi-fi adapters

[Don]

My Lenovo laptop's internal wi-fi card (an Intel 6 AX200, with which a lot of people apparently have had trouble) is screwing up. I'm going to get a USB AC wi-fi adapter. I think that then I need to download the driver for the new adapter, disable the internal adapter, and install the new AC adapter. I can get the driver, of course, and I can install the new adapter when appropriate. Disabling the internal adapter is way above my pay grade. I'm sure folks will need various outputs to answer. Which ones?

Thank you.

[Snowhog]

Before you spend money that might not end up with a working solution, read through this thread on askUbuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1484...-wi-fi-6-ax200 Same issue as yours, with a working solution.

[claydoh]

You need to do good research for USB WiFi. Most are difficult at best to get working on Linux. Few are simple plug-n-play.

Look here for some known good ones:

https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi


You won't need to turn off or disable the existing Intel card if you don't want to. If your new USB card comes with a driver for Linux, it probably won't work due to being ancient. The ones in my link should work , or have links to usable drivers- however, these may require compiling code.


I myself prefer the ax200/210 Intel cards myself and haven't had an issue with the 6 I have used in the past few years. I wonder if there is a quick config edit for things, since Intel WiFi has 1000x better support in Linux then any other wifi chip.