New pc

Antoine

Hi I'm gone buy this pc https://www.hp.com/fr-fr/shop/product.aspx?id=6K9M3EA&opt=ABF&sel=NTB Do you think that solus is compatible with wifi and bluetooth drivers? Thank 🙂

murbert

Antoine I doubt Solus will work on your shiny new computer before a new ISO is released.

WetGeek

Antoine

I love Solus and especially the Solus forum. But with a brand new computer, at this particular time, your best bet would probably be Manjaro. It offers Budgie and Plasma editions, among others. The Solus team is working hard to make updated .ISO files, but there's a tremendous amount of work involved. It may be a liittle while yet.

Brucehankins

Antoine
Looks like it runs a pretty standard Intel wifi 6 cards, so that should work. Bluetooth may not get the full 5.2 benefit, but I think it would work. It's running a standard Ryzen 5 on integrated graphics. Never hurts to try it.

tomscharbach

Antoine According to the specs, the wifi/bluetooth adapter is a "Realtek Wi-Fi 6 (2x2) and Bluetooth® 5.2 combo card (support for Gigabit data rates) Compatible MU-MIMO". I can't tell what driver it uses, but if the 5.13 kernel (Solus ISO) does not have the right driver, the 5.15 (after update) kernel probably will.

So your wifi card might not work until the updates are installed. If the laptop's wifi doesn't run under 5.13, an easy workaround is a cheap USB to Ethernet adapter. That will allow you to connect to your router and run the updates, which will bring the kernel to 5.15.

The reason I said "cheap" is because the cheap adapters are usually driverless, which is what you want. Download speed is less than you might get with a more expensive adapter, but you don't need that just to update. I use USB to Ethernet adapters to wire my laptop directly into certain routers (wifi is disabled on those routers) at the railroad museum, and they work fine.

I wouldn't pay attention to the Manjaro recommendation. Just get Solus up and running.

Antoine

murbert A new Iso will be release ? <3

Antoine

tomscharbach I don't like arch .... and manjaro too that why i'm on solus... I love solus for the repo and not compiling the stuff i need the only one i know that works perferctly for linux was a matebook 2020 but ram is not upgradable.

Antoine

thanks for your feedback. and what do you think about HP ?

tomscharbach

Antoine Your HP laptop should work fine on Solus. As @Brucehankins pointed out, the specifications are more-or-less vanilla.

The only uncertainty (as you noted in your original post) is the wifi/bluetooth card, which is a RealTek. RealTek wifi drivers can be a problem with Linux. However, and this is an important however, after update Solus runs the 51.5 kernel. That kernel is used in all of the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS releases (including all the Ubuntu flavors and most derivatives) and most of the other LTS distro releases from April. The 5.15 kernel is almost certain to be compatible with laptops and desktops from major OEM's, including HP. So I don't think you need to worry about compatibility with Solus.

If there is a problem, it is going to be with the ISO (5.13) kernel. A USB-to-Ethernet adapter should provide a temporary workaround if needed to connect via Ethernet and install the 5.15 kernel as part of the normal update process.

I would not overthink the problem. The computer you've chosen is a solid, mainstream product from a major OEM. Nothing is 100% certain, but Solus is likely to work.

WetGeek

tomscharbach If there is a problem, it is going to be with the ISO (5.13) kernel.

One might even say that's THE problem. If he can't get it onto his computer, none of the rest of this matters much.

Antoine

i'm not shure to buy this laptop because the colorimetrie of the screen is not good. i don't know witch pc buy.

tomscharbach

Antoine i'm not shure to buy this laptop because the colorimetrie of the screen is not good. i don't know witch pc buy.

No laptop is perfect, and sorting out the trade-offs is difficult. I bought a new laptop last February, and I spent hours and hours sorting out the best fit. At my age, NITS (a measure of average screen brightness viewed from a meter) is important. Normal NITS (250 +/- on mid-range laptops) doesn't work for me, and I had to move up a step in price to get a 400 NITS display. I like the screen's brightness, but it comes at a price in battery life. Life is compromise. Just do the best you can within your price range.

Antoine

https://www.darty.com/nav/achat/informatique/ordinateur_portable-portable/portable/lenovo_ip_3_15alc6_r5_16_12.html#product_caracteristics I'm gone a buy this lenovo, i hop all working great on solus.

tomscharbach

The Ideapad you selected looks like an excellent choice. All the components should work with Solus. I hope you enjoy it!

Antoine

tomscharbach the wifi will be detect nativelly ? on this latptop no ethernet connection ...

tomscharbach

Antoine the wifi will be detect nativelly ?

It should, but nothing is 100% certain.

The card is identified as "Wi-Fi 802.11 ac Bluetooth 5.0" which are established standards, not bleeding edge. Lenovo uses mainstream components, so the chances are close to 100% that the wifi card will work with the Linux 5.15 kernel.

The card should also work with the ISO 5.13 kernel so that you can install Solus and upgrade.

But even if the worst happens -- the necessary wifi driver for that card isn't in the kernel -- I know from your posting on another thread that you know how to install a wifi driver.

Don't overthink.

Antoine on this latptop no ethernet connection ...

You don't need an Ethernet connection on the laptop. Chances are that you will not need to connect via Ethernet, but if you do need to, the solution is simple. Buy a USB-to-Ethernet adapter (cheap, remember, not expensive), plug the adapter into a USB port on your computer, and plug an Ethernet cable into the RJ45 jack on the other end of the adapter.

tomscharbach

WetGeek One might even say that's THE problem. If he can't get it onto his computer, none of the rest of this matters much.

Conceptually, yes, I suppose. As a practical matter, no. All he has to do is connect to his router via a USB-to-Ethernet adapter, then install and upgrade. Then he is at 5.15. If he needs to install a specific driver to get his wifi card running under 5.15, he can do that while connected via Ethernet.

USB-to-Ethernet adapters are dirt cheap. The adapter I use to create a wired connection at the railroad (business-side routers, which have wifi disabled) costs $15.

I have yet to meet a laptop that doesn't have Ethernet capabilities, although fewer and fewer have RJ45 jacks. I suppose that it is possible that the Lenovo in question doesn't have Ethernet capabilities, but I doubt it.

Antoine

tomscharbach is just in case there si no support for the driver. It this one ? Realtek RTL8723BE

tomscharbach

Antoine is just in case there si no support for the driver. It this one ? Realtek RTL8723BE

I don't know the wifi card manufacturer, model or driver for the Lenovo laptop, so I can't tell. If you are sure that the correct driver is RTL8723BE, you can do some research and get a handle on it. RealTek driver support for Linux can be spotty.

Edit/Update: I think that I found a RTL8723BE driver in both the 5.13 kernel and the 5.15 kernel at /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/. I could be wrong.

Antoine

tomscharbach All working great on this lenovo i'm happy ! thannks for your help wifi was detected on live usb and bluetooth after upgrade 🙂 but im not shure the fingerprint working on solus ?