It's my second attempt at buying a new laptop, and this time the wifi adapter seems to be a problem to get to work.
I have an HP Pavilion 15-au183sa (http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/ ... 2-pdt.html). The wireless adapter is given as 802.11ac 1x1 in the description and appears as Intel AC3168 in the Windows 10 device manager.
Wifi works under Windows. I tried to use the Mageia 5 Live DVD, but the wireless adapter is not even detected (I checked in the network applet and in the hardware browser in the Mageia Control Centre).
I know that the Mageia 5.1 installation DVD has a more recent kernel than the Live DVD, but I'm worried that the shop won't accept a return once I install a new OS. I want to use Mageia, so I want to return the hardware if it doesn't play well with Mageia.
Does anyone know whether the wifi can be made to work with this adapter in Mageia? Thank you.