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I finally ditched Windoze on my desktop and installed Ubuntu 24.10. Everything else is working, but I'm running into a snag when trying to connect to wifi. I do have an Ethernet connection, but would prefer not to use it permanently as that's our Xfinity hookup that's only supposed to have the landline phone on it.
I'm using a USB wireless dongle (flat, not an antenna); Ralink MT7601U. Which should work out of the box and it is detected, but the dongle can't see my wireless network (which every other device in the apartment including the printer that's 2 feet away from the computer uses fine).
I checked my BIOS (Asus); Secure Boot is disabled (had to in order to do a fresh install) but I don't think that would have anything to do with it.
I do have a wireless PCI card I could throw in there, but that card is meant for a separate build and I'd like to avoid installing it in something that's going to be eventually cannibalized anyway (the card is a major vendor--Asus--so I'm thinking it might work better than the no-name dongle chip). Any ideas?
I'm using a USB wireless dongle (flat, not an antenna); Ralink MT7601U. Which should work out of the box and it is detected, but the dongle can't see my wireless network (which every other device in the apartment including the printer that's 2 feet away from the computer uses fine).
I checked my BIOS (Asus); Secure Boot is disabled (had to in order to do a fresh install) but I don't think that would have anything to do with it.
I do have a wireless PCI card I could throw in there, but that card is meant for a separate build and I'd like to avoid installing it in something that's going to be eventually cannibalized anyway (the card is a major vendor--Asus--so I'm thinking it might work better than the no-name dongle chip). Any ideas?
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