JDE100
March 14, 2023, 7:39pm
1
Hello,
I recently purchased Zorin Pro and installed on an external SSD. Everything works fine when booted on a Lenovo Yoga 7i but when I try and boot on a Lenovo Ideapad 3 the WIFI will not work. I get an error stating "network activation failed". I have tried updating system with all updates with no luck. Not sure where to go next. I'm a Linux beginner. I've tried turning off Fastboot and Secure Boot. I can hook up an ethernet connection and it works fine.
Thank you
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This is good, since you may need to install downloaded drivers for your wifi.
Can you please post the output of
sudo lshw -C network
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JDE100
March 14, 2023, 8:05pm
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Output below:
-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlp1s0
version: 00
serial: 00:45:e2:86:2d:e9
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8822ce driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:159 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:54000000-5400ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 4
bus info: usb@4:2.4
logical name: enxa0cec8fed715
serial: a0:ce:c8:fe:d7:15
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=ax88179_178a driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic duplex=full ip=10.50.20.165 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
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Connected to Ethernet, can you run the following installation command in terminal:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install rtl8822ce-dkms
Once complete, reboot and test connecting to Wifi
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JDE100
March 14, 2023, 8:42pm
5
After completing this I can see the wifi networks but when I try and connect I get an error. In addition it connected to the network for about a minute and then failed.
Here was the output from the install
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlp1s0
version: 00
serial: 00:45:e2:86:2d:e9
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8822ce driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.50.50.138 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:159 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:54000000-5400ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 4
bus info: usb@4:2.4
logical name: enxa0cec8fed715
serial: a0:ce:c8:fe:d7:15
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=ax88179_178a driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic duplex=full ip
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JDE100
March 14, 2023, 9:35pm
7
It said "activation of network connection failed". Interesting that if I wait long enough ( 10 or so minutes) it finally will connect.
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JDE100
March 14, 2023, 9:36pm
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When it connects this is the results I get:
-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlp1s0
version: 00
serial: 00:45:e2:86:2d:e9
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw_8822ce driverversion=5.15.0-67-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.50.50.138 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
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Have you tried modprobe?
sudo modprobe rtl88x2ce
Have you checked blacklist?
/etc/modprobe.d/
and check the .conf
files.
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JDE100
March 15, 2023, 1:29pm
10
Looks like your suggestions fixed my problem. System now connects to Wifi every time. Thank you
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Ocka
March 15, 2023, 1:46pm
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Gday @JDE100 ,Welcome to the community !
Glad to hear you fixed the issue.
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June 13, 2023, 1:46pm
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