wifi driver help
a bit of a noob here - specifically a steam deck power user that wants nothing more than to eliminate windows from my desktop gaming rig (and life entirely) . so everything was going great; plowing thru flavours of linux till my noob heart was content - but at some point i made my wifi driver disappear. wifi works fine in windows; but not at all in any linux distro: unclaimed network, wifi hw missing, driver n/a. i found and dl'd the correct driver from intel; i've sudo-commanded my damn machine to move the damn driver from the download folder to lib/firmware etc. but for the life of me i cannot figure out how to grant myself my god-given permission to put the freaking driver in its proper home - bc firmware folder is 'read only access'. i've searched for days online for the answer to this, tried just about every possible answer i've found - and i'm so close to the solution i can almost taste the firmware folder. but at this point its clear i've hit the proverbial. so if anyone would be willing to point a noob in the 'write' direction (i'll see myself out...), a noob would provide their first born in return.
TL;DR: can't put wifi driver in firmware folder bc file system is 'read only' access. tx in advance to anyone w any advice!
TL;DR: can't put wifi driver in firmware folder bc file system is 'read only' access. tx in advance to anyone w any advice!
