Anyone seen where devices are not seeing WLAN adapters within the IGEL OS? These are using the Realtek RTL8821CE driver. Some devices are connecting but most are not even recognizing that a wlan0 adapter is in the machine.
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found is the error received when attempting to enable via the secure terminal.
Not especially this one, but I would have to check the wifi chipset builtin and the driver we might use. Which firmware are you using?
11.01.100.01 on both devices that do and dont work. uname -r shows both of the testers are on 4.18.20
From what I could research it looks like a year old issue with linux distros and this driver. askubuntu.com/questions/1131674/no-wifi-adaptor-on-hp-255-g7
Correcting my above statement. It is just devices with that driver. The others are running an Intel driver.
Seems to be 8821ce and this one is intgerated. Just tried to modprobe and it worked (even if I haven’t the chipset to check entirely).
systemctl stop network-manager
modprobe -rfv 8821ce
modprobe -v 8821ce
systemctl start network-manager
It might sound weird, but did you checked the wifi country code, as a possible issue?
iw reg get
and set it here as needed? System,registry,network.interfaces.wirelesslan.regdb.continent
country 00:dfs-unset for the Country code.
Also when I attempted a modprobe I get module not found.
Then please update to 120, I tested on that version tbh.
Yep. Updating to 120 fixed it. Thanks!
You are welcome!!
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