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Solus Settings >> Wi-Fi >> "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found"

Windows Device Manager >> Network adapters >> "Realtek 8821CE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC"

Please advise.

Ps: Wired connection works.

    bolofar
    Is this the suggested method or should I wait for official kernel support or something?

        Jumpy I guess this depends on your experience. I would try compiling the driver from the sources. But this is of course probably not a "straightforward solution". It might take some extra searching and reading.

          The suggested procedure failed. Command "uname -r" will respond with "4.20.16-112.current" and the build-file at this location seems to be an broken link. By the way, why such as old kernel version? Maybe this the root of my wifi problems. How do i update to version /lib/modules/5.3.15-138.current a directory that already exists on this computer?

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            Jumpy is your system fully updated? Try sudo eopkg up and see if there are any (kernel-)updates. Maybe kernel 4.20 ist still around on your system and the default on boot (for whatever reason) try hitting the space bar while booting to show the boot menu

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                I am not able to achieve anything with the space button on boot but this time out change command gives me a peculiar warning:

                sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 5 && sudo clr-boot-manager update
                Password:
                New timeout value is: 5
                [FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/kernel.c:L657): Failed to install initrd /boot/EFI/com.solus-project/initrd-com.solus-project.current.5.3.15-138: No space left on device
                [FATAL] cbm (../src/bootman/update.c:L380): Failed to install default-current kernel: ///usr/lib/kernel/com.solus-project.current.5.3.15-138

                My boot partition is small (100 MiB) but there is 24.55 MiB of unused space.

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                    Jumpy so, seems like we found the problem. 100 MB is quite small. I think solus recommends 512 MB. I don't know if you can work around that problem or if you just need to increase your boot partition......(if possible). Nonetheless i would suggest you fix that problem first, before trying to get your wifi working....

                      Yeah you'll need to fix the EFI partition first, that's the first step.

                      Ok I have now done a full reinstall of solus and win10 and the roughly 500 MiB efi boot partition is created by solus. The kernel is now version 5.3.15 after a "sudo eopkg up". I also tried the suggested procedure for installing wifi drivers by typing in these commands in a terminal window:

                      sudo eopkg up
                      sudo eopkg it -c system.devel
                      sudo eopkg install git
                      sudo eopkg install linux-current-headers
                      git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
                      cd rtl8821ce
                      uname -r
                      sudo make -C /lib/modules/5.3.15-138.current/build
                      make
                      sudo make install
                      sudo modprobe -a 8821ce

                      The Wi-Fi adapter is now found. Sadly when choosing the correct network the whole computer will freeze (keyboard, mouse and screen). I tried to undo the changes by "sudo modprobe -r 8821ce" but the Wi-Fi adapter is still there. Also a simple shutdown attempt on the computer will result in a freezed computer (the screen will show the solus shutdown prompt forever). What are my options now?

                        I did another reinstall of solus but did not install those suspectedly troublesome third party wifi drivers. However I am still experiencing "random" freezing of keyboard, mouse and screen after a "sudo eopkg up". Maybe the wifi drivers are not to blame. I do not have access to this computer after the holidays, but I will experiment further with maybe an LTS kernel in moths to come.

                        6 months later

                        Jumpy

                        The command list I posted months ago worked perfect eventually.
                        I am posting this message through wifi succesfully with the kernel version 5.6.18-155.current.

                        PS: Could some one please mark this thread solved, please.

                          2 years later

                          Jumpy Hey when i type in " sudo make -C /lib/modules/5.3.15-138.current/build" its showing no such directory is found

                              9 days later

                              Bappo You have to change the kernel version "5.3.15.-138.current" to match the output from "uname -r"