I then asked nmcli to rescan, again, this may not be necessary, as I think NetworkManager was probably already actively scanning, but again. This basically tells me that nmcli sees my wireless card, and it’s totes enabled. This may be un-necesary, but I did it because it seemed important at the time. I put together the following workflow.Ĭheck on nmcli’s radios. A quick google search for nmcli on my other laptop, found me the docs. If you’re on a system that has already conencted to your WiFi, you should be able to tell NetworkManager to just connect to it, but in my case this was a new install, and I didn’t have the option of starting up the GUI (because. So I’ll include it here.įedora 29 uses NetworManager to connect to wireless networks.

This turned out to be pretty easy, but I did have to look it up. Which is something I’ve always depended on the gui for. However, in my case I had to fire up wireless from the command line. Then we need to install them, and make sure they’re compiled. Then enable the RPMFusion NonFree repo, which is where you can find the NVIDIA akmod rpms. There’s a few things to accomplish in order to get this working. I’m typing this article right now on my external monitor. I don’t do any 3d at all in Linux, I save the gaming for Windows, but an external monitor is a MUST for me.

Which is fine for your standard desktop, but once you need 3d, or an external display, the NVIDIA chip needs to come in. See it has a low power mode, where the NVIDIA chip is just flat out turned off, and graphics are presented with an Intel chip. A fine graphics adapter, if you’re running Windows. Mostly thanks to the NVIDIA 960M that the laptop came with. This is the final article in my story regarding start to finish, getting my Dell Inspiron from a fresh install of Fedora 29, to a functional laptop. Check out the rest of this story here, if you’re looking for the full tale of woe.

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