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Drivers

In order to determine what driver you need, you must first find out what USB-Wifi adapter you are using. To do so use

lsusb

You may need to dig deeper

to list all USB devices connected to your computer and look for the WiFi adapter.

sudo lshw -C network

These two pages give great information.

Chipsets

Kernel Drivers


RTLwifi PPA

To install a driver from this repository, download the repository using the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/kablosuz

Then open Synaptic Package Manager, search for rtl and mark the driver you need for installation and apply changes.

Original Source: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/01/install-rtl8188eu-rtl8723ds-drivers-ppa-ubuntu-20-04/