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cant get WiFi drivers on my Chromebook with Linux

I have a Acer n16Q13 and I installed Linux unity with crouton and there is no WiFi drivers so i bought a USB to Ethernet adapter because this Chromebook dose not have an Ethernet port and scanned additional drivers and still nothing any reason why? this is the Chromebook i have https://www.acer.com/ac/en/ZA/content/model/NX.GM8EA.006

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Driver availability for Linux is spotty at best. You probably won't find it. 

Main PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X • Noctua NH-D15 • MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk • 2x8GB G.skill Trident Z Neo 3600MHz CL16 • MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 3070 OC • Samsung 970 Evo 1TB • Samsung 860 Evo 1TB • Cosair iCUE 465X RGB • Corsair RMx 750W (White)

 

Peripherals/Other:

ASUS VG27AQ • G PRO K/DA • G502 Hero K/DA • G733 K/DA • G840 K/DA • Oculus Quest 2 • Nintendo Switch (Rev. 2)

 

Laptop (Dell XPS 13):

Intel Core i7-1195G7 • Intel Iris Xe Graphics • 16GB LPDDR4x 4267MHz • 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD • 13.4" OLED 3.5K InfinityEdge Display (3456x2160, 400nit, touch). 

 

Got any questions about my system or peripherals? Feel free to tag me (@bellabichon) and I'll be happy to give you my two cents. 

 

PSA: Posting a PCPartPicker list with no explanation isn't helpful for first-time builders :)

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Just now, bellabichon said:

Driver availability for Linux is spotty at best. You probably won't find it. 

am i  possibly able to buy a new WiFi adapter and to replace the Intel one i have?

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Plug in your WiFi interface device, open a terminal and post the output of "lspci", "lsusb", "sudo dmesg" (the last 20 lines or so) here (enter the commands without quotes))

Desktop: HP Z220 Workstation, 12 GB RAM, 2x500 GB HDD RAID0, + GTX 1060 3GB

Laptop: ThinkPad T430, 8 GB RAM, 1x120 GB SSD

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