Make this HP laptop wifi work in Ubuntu 20

Pedroski · 03-22-2021, 08:07 AM

I just bought a new HP laptop, not the newest model, but with AMD R7 processors.

Ubuntu cannot handle the Wifi. Below are the details.

Can you please help me get the wifi going? (There is no wired internet socket in this HP)

Quote:

pedro@pedro-HP-Laptop-15s-er1xxx:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for pedro:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:f000(size=256) memory:fe600000-fe60ffff
pedro@pedro-HP-Laptop-15s-er1xxx:~$

Emerson · 03-22-2021, 08:19 AM

I put your info into a search engine and this was the first hit, I'm sure you already tried it, what issues did you encounter? You should have posted what you already have done.

Pedroski · 03-22-2021, 08:48 AM

Well, I think I need a usb wifi adapter, then I can install the stuff I need to get rtl8821ce working!!

I got a folder rtl8821ce with:

Quote:

git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce

but I still need other stuff!

I'll buy a usb wifi adapter tomorrow, try that!!

Otherwise, can't quite see how to install it on the new laptop without internet!!

Thanks for the link!!