Steam Deck OLED: WiFi interface not recognised by Ubuntu

[Detoxica]

Did anyone manage to get the WiFi working on the OLED Steam Deck running Ubuntu? I'm running Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop from a live USB stick and the WiFi interface is not recognised at all, additional drivers show nothing available. It's the same even after running apt update && apt upgrade. Did anyone manage to get this working so far?

[Rodomar705]

Main kernel is missing the wireless firmware, and until Valve will push it upstream it will never work. You can download it and add it manually from the evlav firmware repo, but each time linux-firmware will update you will probably need to repeat this. It's quite annoying, TBH.

[Hoodwink]

I did it it works and almost everything works after i installed all the drivers it has wifi speakers headphones mic bluetooth all work and I made a guide. but it's 70 commands and over a dozen patches. https://clbin.com/0Awp0 even gaming mode can also work if you know how to install it but not 100% perfectly yet. i am trying to fix the refresh rate slider in gaming mode which causes crash for me

[Hoodwink]

and in my version u can pick from 2 working kernels, downstream steamos or more close to upstream 6.7-rc4 based on batocera distro

[Hoodwink]

ok i just found a way to fix the refresh rate slider you have to compile and install the newest source code of mesa and gamescope from steamos.cloud and then you also have to use only the 6.1 downstream kernel and not the 6.7-rc4 kernel from my guide. if anyone here gets to the point of actually using ubuntu with audio and wifi which is covered in the link i posted here but cant figure out how to install gaming mode with all the custom graphics drivers into ubuntu, then u can ask me and ill explain how

[Kyandide]

Originally posted by Hoodwink:

I did it it works and almost everything works after i installed all the drivers it has wifi speakers headphones mic bluetooth all work and I made a guide. but it's 70 commands and over a dozen patches. https://clbin.com/0Awp0 even gaming mode can also work if you know how to install it but not 100% perfectly yet. i am trying to fix the refresh rate slider in gaming mode which causes crash for me

Hello, I came across your post while looking to solve the same issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It seems your list is missing some commands in some sections. Like in the firmware section where you jump into a directory that isn't existing yet:

 cd linux-firmware-20230919.git3672ccab/ 

, the next sections are missing parts too. If you could update it with the corresponding commands that would be awesome! Thank you for your post!

[🙈🧬👨‍💻🥽Jerry ✡️ VRcia⛐🏁✈️🏓]

truly the year of the linux desktop

[PsyBlade]

Have "fun" using windows on the OLED.

[Trooper_Max]

Originally posted by Kyandide:

Originally posted by Hoodwink:

I did it it works and almost everything works after i installed all the drivers it has wifi speakers headphones mic bluetooth all work and I made a guide. but it's 70 commands and over a dozen patches. https://clbin.com/0Awp0 even gaming mode can also work if you know how to install it but not 100% perfectly yet. i am trying to fix the refresh rate slider in gaming mode which causes crash for me

Hello, I came across your post while looking to solve the same issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It seems your list is missing some commands in some sections. Like in the firmware section where you jump into a directory that isn't existing yet:

 cd linux-firmware-20230919.git3672ccab/ 

, the next sections are missing parts too. If you could update it with the corresponding commands that would be awesome! Thank you for your post!

I was just looking at this and had some similar confusion until I realized those directories you're missing should have been created by the "apt source linux-firmware pipewire wireplumber alsa-ucm-conf" command. Though if you're running a different version of Ubuntu, you will end up with different source versions of those packages and that may be the problem. This whole script is rather dated now, and I'd recommend only using it as reference at this point.