Sorry if this is slightly off topic, I searched for communities about tech support on here and couldn’t find anything that wasn’t dead in the water. Basically I want to use WPA3 on my Network, however my Windows partition doesn’t support WPA3 for some reason. I only keep that piece of trash around for school work. My Fedora Linux partition can use WPA3 just fine so I assume this is a driver issue. Is there any way to use Linux WiFi drivers on Windows?
(inb4 how the turntables)
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Run windows as a vm on your Linux machine.
Unlikely. While in theory someone could create a compatibility layer, it would be quite a challenge, as obviously, kernel modules are very closely tied to the specific kernel. I did some web searches, and only found the same few dead projects (that didn’t completely solve this issue anyway) that you found, and other forum posts that offer little encouragement.
Make sure you have the latest version of Windows 10 or 11, and the latest drivers for your network hardware. If you do, then there’s probably not much you can do about this.
Update the drivers on windows and see if the latest version supports it
Or
Install WSL or a VM and pass the device through to linux, let the kernel find it and activate the drivers, configure the network, then set up routes to share that connection with the host.
This, pass through to VM and share with host
If it’s a case of needing ad-hoc WiFi from Windows, an Android phone tethered over USB will act as a WiFi adapter of sorts.
Not sure why you got down voted, this is what I’m currently doing to work around it
It’s so ironic. Over the last few decades you could find millions of examples of the opposite question being asked.
Nope, drivers are platform-specific.
Well this sucks. I have no idea what to do then lol
If you need to use windows because of a software issue, not a hardware issue, you’re probably best off running windows in a VM.
That way your linux install is making the WPA3 connection, and as far as the Windows install is concerned, it’s on a wired lan.
This has the added benefit of not having to reboot, you just always start linux and turn the windows VM on and off as required.Unfortunately its due to Lockdown browser which doesn’t allow virtualization no matter how obfuscated I try to make it.
I have the same problem at my school, but thankfully, the school library has laptops I can borrow with the lockdown browser installed. It isn’t ideal, but is there a similar arrangement you could make?
They only allow certain students in specific programs to borrow and I dont fit the criteria. Its a Really shitty situation.
A lockdown browser?
Refuse to use it or if you aren’t that bold refuse to run it on your own hardware.
Seriously though, it is documented malware
I could do this if I wanted to get kicked out of college and lose 5k tuition
Have you talked to your professor? You could always explain that the use of Lockdown browser is unjust. Also you can find professors that don’t require it.
I do have professors that dont require it, but I also have professors that have a stick somewhere it doesn’t belong and just expect the computer to teach us everything. I understand where youre coming from though
Do you need the Windows partition for something specific? I used to dual-boot because I needed Windows for a previous job but have been Linux-only for years
Lockdown browser (government sponsored spyware)
I don’t know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway? It’d be kind of a nuts solution but it’d get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it’s a separate device on the same network.
Something like the question posed here
You’d have to solve a few separate problems that might not be worth it, unfortunately I don’t have these answers:
- Hardware passthrough to the guest (does it require any special drivers on windows/is this idea already dead in the water?)
- How to configure VM networking properly so that the host can use the connection (is it enough to configure the connection as bridged?)
- Performance
I don’t know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway?
i don’t know about advisable, but i know it works because i do this.
intel won’t allow you to get wifi 6 speeds in ap mode with their linux driver; so i created a windows vm with pci passthrough to use the windows driver to get wifi 6 speeds. it passes along the connection via dns & ip masquerade to the soft router (also a vm) via kvm/qemu based software defined networking; so technically the connections from my laptop & smartphones go through 2 different networks before making it to my isp.
It’d be kind of a nuts solution but it’d get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it’s a separate device on the same network.
that’s how my software router works and i always thought of it as hacky; this is the first time i’ve heard/thought otherwise.
It is possible if you crosscompile the drivers for Windows. But switch to Fedora, it’s not hard.
You cannot cross-compile Linux kernel drivers for Windows. The API is completely different (and I kinda doubt anyone has made a compatibility layer like ndiswrapper).
for school work.
