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Hi,

I just installed Solus Budgie on my Lenovo Legion Y530 laptop. I am really impressed with the performance. Everything was working perfectly until I installed hardware drivers for Nvidia(Choose to install 32 bits, without it drivers wasn't working). Upto this point, my wifi was working flawless and I was able to see available networks and connect to them.

When I did a reboot after installing Nvidia drivers, I am not able to see any available networks in wifi.

I did restart a couple of times and now I can't see wifi at all.
NOTE: I am using Realtek RTL8822be as a wifi card in my system.

Few commands I executed:

lenovo@gaming:$ lspci -v | grep -i wireless
lenovo@gaming:$ lspci | grep -i realtek
07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter (rev ff)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
lenovo@gaming:$ uname -srm
Linux 5.6.19-158.current x86_64

Could someone please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks for your support.

5 days later

After upgrading system, wifi started working. It worked for 2 days.

But, after upgrading again, the issue is still replicating. I am still unable to connect to wifi.

Please suggest something. Thanks.

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inxi -i | grep driver
rfkill list all
lsmod | grep rtl

    pomon Thanks for connecting. Please find the output of requested commands:

    lenovo@gaming:~$ inxi -i | grep driver
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter driver: rtw_pci 
  driver: r8169 
lenovo@gaming:~$ rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
lenovo@gaming:~$ lsmod | grep rtl
btrtl                  16384  1 btusb
bluetooth             466944  33 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm

    NOTE: I am using Lenovo Legion Y530

      You probably should use the r8822be driver but I don't know much how to load it.
      Show morelsmod | grep r8 and lsmod | grep rtw
      Have You tried to load the r8822be module on the lts kerner?

        pomon

        lenovo@gaming:$ lsmod | grep r8
        r8169 90112 0
        libphy 135168 2 r8169,realtek
        lenovo@gaming:$ lsmod | grep rtw
        rtwpci 28672 0
        rtw88 536576 1 rtwpci
        mac80211 913408 2 rtwpci,rtw88
        cfg80211 856064 2 mac80211,rtw88

        No, I don't know how to load the module. It would be great if you can help me out.

        Thanks

          Does wifi work on Live Solus? (no nvidia drivers). If it works, show inxi -i.
          If you don't have it, install linux-lts, log in and check if wifi works. If it works, show inxi -i.
          Do you have any modules on blacklist?
          E.g. in ls /etc/modules-load.d/

          EDIT:
          You can try on linux-current.

          1. sudo eopkg it linux-current-headers dkms
          2. git clone https://github.com/mid-kid/r8822be.git
            cd r8822be
            ./make
            sudo ./make install
          3. echo "r8822be" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/r8822be.conf
          4. reboot
          5. lsmod | grep r88 If there is no module sudo modprobe r8822be

            Hi pomon

            Thanks for detail inputs. I just started my laptop to perform these steps and I am completed surprised that wifi is working as expected (without doing anything). It's might be due to the last update. I would love to know the reason for being certain.

            I confirmed that there module which is blacklisted by running ls /etc/modules-load.d/. (No output)

            Yes, I was able to use wifi in live mode without and even after installed was completed on my Solus desktop until I installed Nvidia drivers.

            I am really not sure what has fixed the issue bcz I haven't done anything. Most likely the update fixed it. But, I am afraid to update my system again as last to last update messed wifi again.

            lenovo@gaming:~$ ls /etc/modules-load.d/
lenovo@gaming:~$ inxi -i
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter driver: rtw_pci 
  IF: wlp7s0 state: up mac: 48:5f:99:94:c5:71 
  IP v4: 192.168.1.6/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: fe80::aeac:a625:7653:c62c/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: enp8s0 state: down mac: e8:6a:64:ed:2c:f4 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:af:91:23:43 
  IP v4: 172.17.0.1/16 scope: global 
  WAN IP: 122.171.166.60