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
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
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
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
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
What error do you see?
It said "activation of network connection failed". Interesting that if I wait long enough ( 10 or so minutes) it finally will connect.
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
Have you tried modprobe?
sudo modprobe rtl88x2ce
Have you checked blacklist?
/etc/modprobe.d/ and check the .conf files.
Looks like your suggestions fixed my problem. System now connects to Wifi every time. Thank you
Gday @JDE100 ,Welcome to the community !
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