HP 250 G6 Notebook PC (i3 cpu, 4 gigs of ram)

6. 4. 2026

Pop!_OS installed, Wi-Fi is trouble; this seems to solve it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/13m6pmo/wifi_not_working_on_pop_os_2204_on_custom_pc
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd

1-Install iwd:
sudo apt install iwd

2-configure NetworkManager:
open this: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
add this to it:
[device]
wifi.backend=iwd

3-Stop NetworkManager and disable wpa_supplicant:
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable --now wpa_supplicant
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

4- Restart the pc. 

neofetch

             /////////////                user@pop-os
         /////////////////////            -----------
      ///////*767////////////////         OS: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS x86_64
    //////7676767676*//////////////       Host: HP 250 G6 Notebook PC
   /////76767//7676767//////////////      Kernel: 6.18.7-76061807-generic
  /////767676///*76767///////////////     Uptime: 27 mins
 ///////767676///76767.///7676*///////    Packages: 1804 (dpkg)
/////////767676//76767///767676////////   Shell: bash 5.2.21
//////////76767676767////76767/////////   Resolution: 1920x1080
///////////76767676//////7676//////////   DE: COSMIC
////////////,7676,///////767///////////   Theme: adw-gtk3-dark [GTK3]
/////////////*7676///////76////////////   Icons: Cosmic [GTK3]
///////////////7676////////////////////   Terminal: cosmic-term
 ///////////////7676///767////////////    CPU: Intel i3-6006U (4) @ 2.000GHz
  //////////////////////'////////////     GPU: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]
   //////.7676767676767676767,//////      Memory: 2391MiB / 3829MiB
    /////767676767676767676767/////
      ///////////////////////////
         /////////////////////
             /////////////

Runs quite slow (the GUI that is), but can decode HD H.265 video without a sweat.

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