@foobardevs i think forgoing trial and error during search is not bad. Forgoing trial and error during learning is bad. When i search - I decided that I want to find the answer immediately for whatever reason - I don’t want to spend time deriving the answer. This works well for finding Wikipedia pages or someone's opinion, or even someone’s process of solving something.

In the other hand, I can’t learn calculus by searching for an answer. And if we pull in Gold's theorem for learning in the limit then we see that trial and error are one of the few ways of breaking faulty assumptions. Having someone show how to solve a specific problem is another way, but there’s a chance that their way will still align with faulty assumptions.

@MattTheQuick well then to dig in you need to look at your `lsmod` command to see if the module is loaded. If it is - check `ip a` or `ifconfig -a` to check that maybe it works and just isn’t connected. If it’s not there - check `dmesg` output and see if there are errors mentioned about the WiFi or the module.

You can also try running `modprobe <module name>` to try and load your WiFi driver. If you don’t know the module name for your driver - you can use ‘lspci -k` or `lsusb` to see the exact model of your device and you can use that to find module name on the web.

@MattTheQuick the kernel doesn’t “just remove” WiFi driver. There would’ve been a lot of discussion for why to do that (if it happened).

It’s more likely that specific kernel module didn’t get built, or maybe the module needs specific firmware file that your system doesn’t have (did you update `linux-firmware`?)