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I purchased mini PC yesterday with pre-installed licence version Windows 10. Bluetooth, WiFi and Ethernet are working fine.

When I install Ubuntu (18.04) on my mini-PC it doesn't show WiFi. The Bluetooth and Ethernet is working fine in Ubuntu but WiFi is not. I tried a lot to find WiFi driver but not getting WiFi.

Please suggest me a right way to install WiFi driver.

Here I attached a link of mini PC which I used.

Mini Pc Portable Win10 Computer Windows10 Intel Mini Pc - Alibaba.com

attached screenshot of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3 results

ubfan1
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Try in a terminal:

sudo cp /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.AP6212.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.txt

Then reboot.

If the wifi specs for this pc are listed correctly in the link you provided, ubuntu is looking for the brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.txt, but for what ever reason it is in the firmware folder as brcmfmac43430-sidio.AP6212.txt. This command will simply make a renamed copy of that file.

It's hard to say if this will work without the output of:

dmesg | grep brcm

(maybe add it to the question)

Also you may want to check linuxium's isorespin.sh. It can be used to create .iso's of ubuntu and many other distributions specifically for these atom single board computers, including wifi and audio.

Edit brcmfmac43430-sidio.AP6212.txt is installed by isorespin and does not come preinstalled on ubuntu. It could probably be downloaded from somewhere, however isorespin adds a lot of other functionality like audio and some specific kernel parameters. A prespun version of ubuntu is available here. However I would recommend creating a lubuntu or xfce version for your mini pc because it has very limited memory.

Kevin Reilly
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I have bought an ACEPC T11 8/128Gb.
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 and everything worked fine but WiFi.
I found that the chipset is RTL8821CU even if it is somehow shown as Broadcom.
I tried many fixes with no results. Finally I fixed the issue.

I fixed the issue with:

  1. git clone https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821cu.git
  2. cd rtl8821cu
  3. sudo ./dkms-install.sh
  4. Reboot
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dabar
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