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Shawon Saha
Shawon Saha

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Activate USB Wi-Fi Receiver from Terminal

Run inxi -Naz to make sure your USB Wi-Fi is recognize by the OS

'inxi -Naz' output

Choosing right Wi-Fi device is confusing for some desktop envionment



Here, in KDE Plasma there is no way to distinguish my desired SSID will connect through which one as I have two Wi-Fi receiver in my device (One is Built-In PCI another one is USB dongle picture showed above)
Networks KDE Plasma

nmtui could be your lifesaver.



If you run nmtui-connect from terminal you can see list of available Wi-Fi device to connect separately for PCB and USB. Which was not the case for KDE GUI
'nmtui-connect' output


Hope this guide will help someone

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