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Hello,
I am dual booting Windows 10 and Linux Mint, and I have no Wi-Fi under Linux. Using this tutorial: https://memo-linux.com/comment-activer-ou-desactiver-linterface-wifi/; I installed rfkill but still have no Wi-Fi. Here is the result of this tutorial:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
rfkill is already the newest version (2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
arul@arul-HP-255-G7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
arul@arul-HP-255-G7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo rfkill unlock wifi
Try 'rfkill --help' for more information.
Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.
I am dual booting Windows 10 and Linux Mint, and I have no Wi-Fi under Linux. Using this tutorial: https://memo-linux.com/comment-activer-ou-desactiver-linterface-wifi/; I installed rfkill but still have no Wi-Fi. Here is the result of this tutorial:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
rfkill is already the newest version (2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.4).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
arul@arul-HP-255-G7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
arul@arul-HP-255-G7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo rfkill unlock wifi
Try 'rfkill --help' for more information.
Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.
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Hello everyone who replied to me, thank you. While searching, I found a tutorial by Jerimy that works in 2 minutes, here is the link:
to install the wifi driver and then follow JerimyB's solution here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=290073
Best regards
to install the wifi driver and then follow JerimyB's solution here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=290073
Best regards
Hello arulanan,
from experience, I know that the Wi-Fi works poorly under Linux Mint, while it works very well with Windows! With Mint, it’s difficult to find a Wi-Fi dongle that works, even by using the installation DVD provided with the dongle or by going to the manufacturer's website to find a driver for Linux (which doesn’t work...).
I have 7 Wi-Fi dongles, only 1 (Belkin 150) works with minimal reception, and an old Netgear WG111v3 that works perfectly (natively) without any driver installation. But it’s an old dongle that’s at least 15 years old, so it’s impossible to find, maybe second-hand... And even then, the chipset of the dongle must be the same for all NetGear WG111v3...
So, from my experience, you have to try the Wi-Fi dongles one after the other and find the one that works.
On the other hand, I just installed UbuntuMate 32-bit version on my PC, which is a lightweight distribution, and by miracle all my Wi-Fi dongles work natively except for one! So it depends on the Linux distribution installed...
Here is the link to find this distribution: https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
See you...
from experience, I know that the Wi-Fi works poorly under Linux Mint, while it works very well with Windows! With Mint, it’s difficult to find a Wi-Fi dongle that works, even by using the installation DVD provided with the dongle or by going to the manufacturer's website to find a driver for Linux (which doesn’t work...).
I have 7 Wi-Fi dongles, only 1 (Belkin 150) works with minimal reception, and an old Netgear WG111v3 that works perfectly (natively) without any driver installation. But it’s an old dongle that’s at least 15 years old, so it’s impossible to find, maybe second-hand... And even then, the chipset of the dongle must be the same for all NetGear WG111v3...
So, from my experience, you have to try the Wi-Fi dongles one after the other and find the one that works.
On the other hand, I just installed UbuntuMate 32-bit version on my PC, which is a lightweight distribution, and by miracle all my Wi-Fi dongles work natively except for one! So it depends on the Linux distribution installed...
Here is the link to find this distribution: https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
See you...
Hello
It's not by installing rfkill that you're going to make your wifi work (it was already installed anyway). If it's not functioning, it's because the wifi card driver is not installed.
Start by identifying your card:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wifi
It's not by installing rfkill that you're going to make your wifi work (it was already installed anyway). If it's not functioning, it's because the wifi card driver is not installed.
Start by identifying your card:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wifi
Thank you, here is my card:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter.
I found it with the following command:
lspci | grep -i network
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter.
I found it with the following command:
lspci | grep -i network
Hello,
Can we have the references of your wifi card and/or of the PC if it's a laptop?
What does the command return:
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_______________________________ ☯ Zen my nuggets ☮ _____________________________
Do a favor for the environment, close your windows and adopt a penguin… ????
$ sudo rfkill listThe problem is that your wifi interface is not detected ;-(
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Can we have the references of your wifi card and/or of the PC if it's a laptop?
What does the command return:
lspci | grep -i 'network\|wireless'?
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_______________________________ ☯ Zen my nuggets ☮ _____________________________
Do a favor for the environment, close your windows and adopt a penguin… ????
It's the same solution as here;
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2398917
@WalterP
From experience, I know that on Linux Mint, the Wi-Fi works poorly, while on Windows it works very well! With Mint, it is hard to find a Wi-Fi adapter that works
I cannot let that be said because it's false
Wi-Fi cards work just as well with Linux Mint as with other Linux distributions, and even more so with Ubuntu since Mint is nothing more than an Ubuntu with the Cinnamon or Mate desktop and a few extra packages. For a Wi-Fi card or adapter to work, it needs a driver; if that driver is not pre-installed, it must be obtained from the manufacturer and installed manually, and especially not to look on the accompanying CD which only contains drivers for Windows or outdated versions of the Linux driver. It's not always simple, but if the driver is not pre-installed, the responsibility lies with the manufacturer of the adapter, not with the Linux distribution's publisher. Therefore, it’s better to inquire before purchasing than to blame the publisher of the Linux distribution, who is not at fault, because if it has not been pre-installed, it's because they have not been given permission or only the source code is available.
I wanted to share my user experience, I didn’t blame anyone and I’m not very technical (not at all, really)…
There was a time when I couldn’t manage with these Wi-Fi keys (that’s why I have 7 of them…) including searching for information here or on another forum (I don’t remember…) and looking for 1 or 2 drivers on the manufacturers' sites, which ultimately didn’t work. The problem was the same with Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora. I didn’t try any other distribution.
But as I mentioned in my post, I recently installed UbuntuMate, and I was surprised to see that all the keys worked except one and without any driver installation! That’s the information I wanted to share…
I no longer use Wi-Fi, but if I had found at the time, online and with the reference of the key, the same info as arulanan above, that would have helped me! Unfortunately, I didn’t find this information for any of my keys, and it’s not for lack of trying, as I searched everywhere, online and even in stores. In the end, I gave up and now I connect only via wired connection, and the speed is much better, obviously!
I think arulanan was quite lucky with their key, as I had done the same search for my D-Link, TP-Link, Belkin keys, and others, but without results or with results that didn’t work…
So, with all that, I didn’t want to blame either side… :)
But I have an old NetGear WG111v3 key found in a drawer at a friend’s house, which couldn’t even tell me its age, and it works on all distributions with super speed and without driver installation! If someone knows why, I don’t know… :)