Wifi not working

NilNail

I got this crappy laptop in 2017, I used windows on it for about 2 months with working wifi and bluetooth and when I made the switch to linux neither bluetooth nor wifi worked. Now after switching to solus in 2019 the bluetooth started to work again, is there any hope for getting my wifi working?

viyoriya

check your NetworkManager status
systemctl status NetworkManager.service
if not running then start it
systemctl start NetworkManager.service
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

if still your wifi not connected then check in terminal
nmcli dev status
this will show the status and check you have the proper driver for wifi card.
(remember the device name of your wifi card )
then check
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and another file
wpa_supplicant_<your Device Name>.conf this file contains your wifi ssid and psk (password)
if you cant find then create it and restart systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

NilNail

viyoriya
when I do systemctl status NetworkManager.service` it outputs this:
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; ven>
Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
└─NetworkManager-ovs.conf
Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-09-11 08:13:38 EDT; 8h ago
Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
Main PID: 634 (NetworkManager)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4560)
Memory: 23.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─634 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incompl>
lines 1-13/13 (END)

When I do nmcli dev status it outputs this
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp2s0 ethernet unavailable --

lo loopback unmanaged --

There is no folder called wpa_supplicant in /etc/ and I think the computer doesn't recognize the wifi card
(sorry for the late reply I had to sleep and school)

viyoriya

NilNail yes no wifi device listed....check the hardware

NilNail

viyoriya I'm sure it has a wifi card it says in the specs right here https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c05530670

viyoriya

check lspci
if not installed then install sudo eopkg it pciutils and try lspci it should list the wifi hw

linuxbuild

Try to find required drivers and check module operability by https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.linux_hardware.hw-probe

It's the client of the Solus hardware database: https://linux-hardware.org/?d=Solus

DataDrake

linuxbuild Not our database. I really just need to know the PCI or USB IDs for the device.