Hi everyone!
I’ve been enjoying Gnome for the last 5 years, mainly in Fedora Workstation. Lately, I’ve been feeling a scratch to try something else after a few annoyances with notifications or the file manager.
I’ve also been using KDE in Steam OS on my Steam Deck, but something doesn’t feel right even if I managed to reproduce my Gnome workflow in it.
I thought that Cosmic could be the perfect middle ground and I wanted to dual boot it alongside Fedora Workstation on my second computer, an upgraded Mac Book Pro from 2012. As I enjoy Fedora, I downloaded the Fedora Cosmic Atomic version.
On this computer, you normally have to enable RPM fusion to get the broadcom drivers for the wifi. I followed the instructions related to os-tree based systems with no luck. Then I thought, let’s just download the normal Fedora Cosmic as I don’t need an immutable distro and the commands should be the same as for Workstation.
Despite, managing to get the Broadcom drivers, I never managed to get the wifi working in Fedora Cosmic.
I might be stupid, but I don’t understand why as it’s the same distro and just a different DE. Doe’s anyone have an explanation?
It might be a sign that I should just live with the minor annoyances I get in Gnome, but some things looked really good in Cosmic and I’d love to dual boot it for a while…
If you’re saying you started on Gnome, then dropped in another DE, you need to switch to an agnostic network manager if you were relying on Gnome’s Desktop Network manager implementation probably.
If you’re saying you booted a clean Fedora Cosmic LiveUSB and couldn’t get WiFi working, you need to look at logs or run through some cli debugging to see what’s up. Probably just Cosmic issues.
Edit: forgot about nmtui. You can use this to debug issues from the clinpretty simply if the desktop tools are failing.
I believe he should check his NM Status like this:
systemctl status NetworkManagerOr also check the logs dmesg o journalctl
Nah just to be clear, I tried to dual boot Fedora Cosmic Atomic and later Fedora Cosmic with Fedora Workstation.
Grub wasn’t seeing my Fedora Workstation install anymore, so I don’t think the Gnome network manager comes into account.
But I might be way out of my league as there is so much I don’t understand.
Try using your CMOS’ EFI boot manager and see if it sees both. If so, just skip Grub and use that.