How to connect Wi-Fi in Lenovo Ideapad 1 11ada05 laptop?

Question

linux

Hello. I recently purchased a laptop Lenovo Ideapad 1 11ada05. At the same time, I wanted to finally get acquainted with the Linux environment and looked through interesting distributions for the laptop. Tried installing Trisquel first, but the installation failed. Stopped at Devuan. Everything would be fine, but that's what's in the first OS, that in the second Wi-Fi is not seen and is not looking for routers.

How do I connect it, because the laptop is cut off from the Internet. Although in Live CD mode in Devuan, surprisingly, Wi-Fi was active.

I tried to search the Internet, but the results were distressing: either they offered to buy the same laptop, or other Ideapad models popped up. How is it right to ask the search engines the right thing?

Answer 1

Devuan, and even more so Trisquel, are panicky about the security and openness of components, and on your wifi laptop, the card most likely does not have free drivers and it just won’t work even on a regular debian or arch, and even more so on the trisquel libre core. And you don't need it, because the level of paranoid desire for openness and security that trisquel suggests does not combine with proprietary BIOS firmware and proprietary components of the processor itself. For complete anonymity and security, the piece of iron is chosen thoughtfully and component by component. If you say that wifi worked in Live mode, then the drivers exist - this is already wonderful, but there is no point in installing the same Devuan yet, as they wrote above, even Linux Mint and even more so debian will give you a disproportionately higher level of security and privacy than Windows. Set and study, everyone started with this. Good luck!

Answer 2

See here for the original Debian . According to Devuan, I don’t know if there is any specificity, I didn’t use it.

Answer 3

And why didn't you start acquaintance with gentoo right away?
Get something light to "look/feel/play", any distribution of ubuntu (from 20.04 and newer). And the documentation is a wagon, and the community is decent, and the FAQ is googled without problems, and without perversion like "we are not like everyone else - we do not recognize systemd"

Answer 4

Install Simply Linux .
I recently put a person on a laptop.
The network picked up immediately.
It is based on Debian 9.1 .
And it's incredibly easy and simple.