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I just bought a Lenovo ideapad S130 141GM and installed Ubuntu Budgie 19.04. The wifi chip is a rtl8821ce so i had to install a driver with the commands :

sudo apt-get install --reinstall git dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce cd rtl8821ce chmod +x dkms-install.sh chmod +x dkms-remove.sh sudo ./dkms-install.sh

After rebooting, it worked, i could see many networks, but not my box. After that i used a wifi dongle with a RTL8188EUS which worked directly out of the box and saw the same networks and my box.

My box is working on channel 6, so it is not a problem of country channel allocation. The signal level o my box is of course much higher than the signal of all others networks and there is no other network on channel 6 (I tried on other channel without success too). My provider is "Free".

Does somebody have the same problem solved and could give me a hint of where to look (I would be happy to be able to use again the usb connector occupied by the wifi dongle) ?

Thanks in advance.

Pilot6
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Frank
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From the comments...

Uninstall your current dkms driver (https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce)...

cd rtl8821ce          # old source folder
sudo ./dkms-remove.sh # uninstall old dkms driver

And try this one... https://github.com/shubham151/rtl8821ce. (git clone https://github.com/shubham151/rtl8821ce.git). Don't follow the ReadMe there for how to install it, rather, follow the same procedure that you did before, so that you get the dkms install.

git clone https://github.com/shubham151/rtl8821ce.git # git clone new driver
cd rtl8821ce             # new source folder
chmod +x dkms-install.sh # make executable
chmod +x dkms-remove.sh  # make executable
sudo ./dkms-install.sh   # install new dkms driver
heynnema
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For ubuntu 20.04 this should do the trick:

apt install rtl8821ce-dkms
Michael
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