I opted to install all third party drivers during installation, and have used a wired connection to update software, and check for additional drivers. Still no luck.
I then looked on here and found a similar thread that seemed to have helped one user but it failed to resolve my issue.
The posted solution was as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git dkms
git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
cd rtl8821ce
sudo ./dkms-install.sh
This worked fine for me, I will post the results below:
gino@DrHappy:~$ sudo apt update Hit:1 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:2 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB] Fetched 88.7 kB in 2s (39.6 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 3 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list
--upgradable' to see them. gino@DrHappy:~$ sudo apt install build-essential git dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version (12.4ubuntu1). build-essential set to manually installed. dkms is already the newest version (2.3-3ubuntu9.2). dkms set to manually installed. Suggested packages: git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn The following NEW packages will be installed: git git-man liberror-perl 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 4733 kB of archives. After this operation, 33.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 liberror-perl all 0.17025-1 [22.8 kB] Get:2 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4 [803 kB] Get:3 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4 [3907 kB] Selecting previously unselected package liberror-perl. (Reading database ... 127259 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../liberror-perl_0.17025-1_all.deb ... Unpacking liberror-perl (0.17025-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package git-man. Preparing to unpack .../git-man_1%3a2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4_all.deb ... Unpacking git-man (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4) ... Selecting previously unselected package git. Preparing to unpack .../git_1%3a2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking git (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4) ... Setting up git-man (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4) ... Setting up liberror-perl (0.17025-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up git (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4) ... gino@DrHappy:~$ git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git Cloning into 'rtl8821ce'... remote: Enumerating objects: 21, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (21/21), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done. remote: Total 672 (delta 7), reused 6 (delta 1), pack-reused 651 Receiving objects: 100% (672/672), 3.33 MiB | 916.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (236/236), done. gino@DrHappy:~$ cd rtl8821ce gino@DrHappy:~/rtl8821ce$ sudo ./dkms-install.sh About to run dkms install steps...
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/v5.2.5_1.26055.20180108/source ->
/usr/src/rtl8821ce-v5.2.5_1.26055.20180108
DKMS: add completed.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module: cleaning build area... 'make' -j4 KVER=4.18.0-15-generic............ Signing module:
- /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/v5.2.5_1.26055.20180108/4.18.0-15-generic/x86_64/module/8821ce.ko Nothing to do. cleaning build area...
DKMS: build completed.
8821ce: Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.18.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod...
DKMS: install completed. Finished running dkms install steps.
however the original user said to follow this up with
sudo modprobe 8821ce
I cannot get this command to run, and assume at this point this is why I still have no Wifi driver. When I try to run it I get the following results.
gino@DrHappy:~$ sudo modprobe 8821ce
[sudo] password for gino:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '8821ce': Operation not permitted
I tried a couple times to make sure I am not simply mistyping my password, no luck. Below here I will post a link to the original question. I tried to add this comment there but I am not allowed due to reputation limits needed for posting on that particular thread.
Lenovo Thinkpad E480 - No Wifi Adaptor Found in Ubuntu 18.04
If anyone could let me know where I am going wrong, or of another approach to getting my Wifi working that would be great.
