WiFi Driver issue in Ubuntu 18.04
Why Ask Ubuntu recommends it
Ask Ubuntu users link it when a laptop shows no WiFi adapter and the Realtek driver has to be built and installed by hand.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What it is
A short screen-recorded tutorial showing how to get a Realtek RTL8723BE/RTL8723DE WiFi adapter working on Ubuntu 18.04, mainly on HP laptops. It walks through installing build tools, cloning the lwfinger rtlwifi_new driver from GitHub, building it, loading the module and disabling Secure Boot if needed.
What people said
Recommends Abhinandan Khilari · 2019-04 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Ubuntu 19.04 Network issues”
A day before I installed 19.04 in my HP laptop alongside Windows 10 (Dual boot). I am experiencing the following issues - Wi-Fi issue: The Wi-Fi is not working. In Wi-Fi settings, it was showing 'No Wi-Fi adapter found'. After going through the Internet regarding this, I came to know that the HP Wi-Fi driver is not compatible with Ubuntu. A new driver was needed to be installed for that purpose. But this will be requiring an Internet connection obviously. So, I proceeded to set up a DSL connection but is facing issues in that too. Somehow managed to set up a DSL connection yesterday and tried to fix the issue as explained here [this video] but still, the Wi-Fi is not working yet. DSL connection i
Recommends DireDocks54 · 2019-10 · Ask Ubuntu · on “WiFi stops working after reboot in 18.04”
I am having a problem with the wifi in ubuntu. It worked fine when my laptop ran Windows, but not so much with Ubuntu. I followed the instructions in this video: [this video] but when I reboot my laptop, the wifi stops working once again. Does anybody know what is going on?
Recommends Sivaram Rasathurai · 2020-02 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Why won't my Ubuntu 19.10 connect to the internet?”
This was the common issue in some type of laptops like hp. Below Tutorial was helped me to detect my wireless adapter. Please watch this video [this video] to recognise your wireless adapter. Follow these steps 1. Please install make command 2. ```sudo apt-get install build-essential``` 3. Please update your kernel to lates one ```sudo apt-get dist-upgrade``` Step 2: In terminal enter git clone [ [LINK] ][2] Step 3: Now enter “cd rtlwifi_new”. Step 4: And now press “git checkout origin/extended -b extended”. Step 5: sudo make install Step 6: sudo modprobe -r rtl8723de Step 7: sudo modprobe rtl8723de if you got error like: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘rtl8723de’: Required key not available A
Cites blazingamr · 2019-08 · Ask Ubuntu · on “No Wi-Fi Adapter Found on Ubuntu 18.04 (iwlwifi) - (Intel Wireless 3160)”
I suddenly cannot connect to the Wi-Fi and it shows the below message in settings when the Wi-Fi is off, While at the same time, it recognizes the Wifi networks and connects to them when Wifi is on! Please find below the card info that I got from the terminal using the command inxi -Fxz : Network: Card-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 06:00.0 IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter> Card-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCIE Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> Prior to posting this question, I spent several hours trying the solutions on other posts & none of them worked! Here are some examples of the commands I tri