ChromeOS Flex on NEO Z83-4 Works! Sort of. No WiFi.

CrayziusMaximus

CrayziusMaximus

New member
I got this MINIX box from a friend of mine, and through a tutorial that I found on Explaining Computers on YouTube, I installed ChromeOS Flex on this device. It works incredibly well, except for one fairly crucial thing (for my use case)... It doesn't have a WiFi driver, nor does the Linux kernel have top-level access. This makes me wonder if installing the Ubuntu distro and then installing the ChromeOS distro will enable a Wi-Fi driver.
 
CrayziusMaximus said:
I got this MINIX box from a friend of mine, and through a tutorial that I found on Explaining Computers on YouTube, I installed ChromeOS Flex on this device. It works incredibly well, except for one fairly crucial thing (for my use case)... It doesn't have a WiFi driver, nor does the Linux kernel have top-level access. This makes me wonder if installing the Ubuntu distro and then installing the ChromeOS distro will enable a Wi-Fi driver.
Click to expand...
https://theminixforum.com/index.php?threads/no-wifi-option-on-z83-4-running-ubuntu5-11-0-27.5971/
 
@CrayziusMaximus I read this today...

"You won't be able to make system-level changes like blocking or adding drivers on a system like ChromeOS Flex - it doesn't offer cmd line access the same way other Linux distros do at this point.

For now, you'll need to wait for someone to start supporting a proper driver in the upstream Linux kernel in order for support to come down to ChromeOS Flex later. Sorry not to have more optimistic news on this front."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top