ASUS X205TA WiFi on Ubuntu Budgie 19.04

Question

I just installed Ubuntu Budgie on this little laptop and everything works flawlessly EXCEPT wifi.

It was an issue in Windows 10 too, which is what prompted me to try Linux on this thing.

I followed this answer but the nvram thingy in efivars isn't there (there isnt a single nvram thing in there) and copying the command gives in fact cp: cannot stat '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/nvram-74b00bd9-805a-4d61-b51f-43268123d113': No such file or directory as a result.

How do I get the txt file I need to make this work? Do I have an alternative to this to make the internal card work? with this distro? I don't want to use an external one because the ports on this laptop are a bit flimsy and for some reason the slightest little bump makes it disconnect and reconnect.

Thanks.

EDIT: I should mention that I don't care about bluetooth not working

EDIT2: This is the file that I got from the script suggested by @Rinzwind (updated to pastebin).

I would have asked about the wifi related problem ;) Please do provide the information about your system with the script explained here https://askubuntu.com/a/425180/15811 It will list all needed information for resident wifi expert @chili555 to help you. All we then need is for him to show up >:) — Rinzwind, Jul 17 '19 at 13:39
I ran it without the WiFi USB card, is that ok? Also, where do I put the .tar.gz? Should I put it as an answer? — lorecast162, Jul 17 '19 at 13:45
In the link chili555 said to use pastebin but that works too ;) now how to get chili here :) — Rinzwind, Jul 17 '19 at 14:07
As I already said, the nvram things are not present in efivars. — lorecast162, Jul 19 '19 at 16:35
I'm progressively starting to think this may be a hardware issue :\ — lorecast162, Jul 19 '19 at 16:36
What happens when you mount -t efivars efivars /sys/firmware/efi/efivars Can you then find /sys/firmware/efi/efivars — Jeremy31, Jul 20 '19 at 10:22
sorry for replying so late, I get mount: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: unknown filesystem type 'efivars'. after putting this command — lorecast162, Nov 05 '19 at 20:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 14 '22 at 07:14

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I just downloaded this to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt

Then I run

sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac && sudo modprobe brcmfmac

It worked right after this command, but it might need reboot

edited Jul 14 '22 at 07:14

Nicolas Formichella

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answered Jul 11 '22 at 19:23

Jiří Klimeš

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ASUS X205TA WiFi on Ubuntu Budgie 19.04

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