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I am having some trouble with my new laptop. It appears that the drivers are installed but I A: Cant tell if they are working when I try to load them (via rtw88_pci which is different than what I saw here and here) B: Dont know if the proper driver is installed (modprobe rtw89pci tells me its not present, but I do see rtw88_pci and a bunch of other .ko files). Please keep in mind I dont have an ethernet port on this machine

Thank you

The Floating Brain
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  • Please add the output of lspci | grep Network – td211 Jan 01 '22 at 05:54
  • @TD15 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8852 – The Floating Brain Jan 01 '22 at 06:00
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    Can you try the instructions that are in here?: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89 – td211 Jan 01 '22 at 07:01
  • @TD15 No internet connection – The Floating Brain Jan 02 '22 at 02:07
  • I think your only hope is to use a non-Ubuntu kernel and use the rtw89 driver – td211 Jan 02 '22 at 14:44
  • @TD15 Non-Ubuntu because another distro may have implemented it? Also are you saying to install another OS or live boot or something? – The Floating Brain Jan 02 '22 at 21:40
  • I think there is a way to use a non Ubuntu kernel on an Ubuntu based distro. I think they are called mainline kernels. – td211 Jan 03 '22 at 12:17
  • @TD15 I was not aware that Ubuntu's kernel was different than the standard Linux. Why would swapping the kernel fix it? – The Floating Brain Jan 03 '22 at 20:50
  • @TD15 If I live booted an OS with a mainline kernel, do you think I could yoink the drivers and copy/paste them onto my Pop instillation? – The Floating Brain Jan 03 '22 at 20:51
  • Because the rtw89 driver can't compile on Ubuntu kernels, clearly stated in the github instructions. Read this guide on how to install another kernel: https://www.fossmint.com/ukuu-install-and-upgrade-linux-kernels-in-ubuntu/ – td211 Jan 04 '22 at 10:28
  • I forgot to say Pop!_OS has a modified Ubuntu kernel, it won't work either. – td211 Jan 04 '22 at 12:15
  • @TD15 So what would the next step be? Also is there a way to find if the driver is already present on my computer? – The Floating Brain Jan 04 '22 at 23:44
  • Your next step should be: install latest mainline kernel following this guide: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/08/mainline-install-latest-kernel-ubuntu-linux-mint/

    Follow the github instructions for rtw89 as I sent in the previous Github link. Hopefully it will work.

     – td211 Jan 05 '22 at 05:30
  • @TD15 I did end up making it work, I was able to get the repo onto the computer. If you want to post an answer I will mark it as such. Thank you for your help :) – The Floating Brain Jan 13 '22 at 17:58
  • You're welcome, can you tell me what exactly worked? Mainline kernel + rtw89 right? – td211 Jan 14 '22 at 15:48

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