Wlan issue on LenovoIdeapad-1 15AMN7 Laptop [Solved]

[bidral]

Dear friends,
Take greetings. I recently got a Lenovo Ideapad-1-15AMN7 laptop. Installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. But not satisfied. Now I want to install MXlinux 23.2 KDE. Live test with pen drive found that Wlan is not working. Wi-Fi network can be used if external dongle is used. Want to know the solution before installing on ssd. Will the WiFi problem be solved by the advice in this link (https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... k.html#ID9)?

thanks in advance

Here is my system info

Code: Select all

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.0-15-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    info: plank wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82VG v: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7 serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 1 15AMN7 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: KSCN28WW date: 09/01/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 41.6 Wh (97.2%) condition: 42.8/42.0 Wh (102.0%) volts: 12.8 min: 11.4
    model: LGES L21L3PF0 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Not charging cycles: 8
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 7320U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Zen note: check rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3442 high: 3953 min/max: 400/4150 cores: 1: 3113 2: 3583 3: 3398 4: 3359
    5: 2623 6: 3578 7: 3953 8: 3929 bogomips: 38326
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1506 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Syntek Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-1:2 chip-ID: 174f:2465
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: GFX1036 (gfx1036 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-15-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-15-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2:2
    chip-ID: 0bda:4853 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2
    sub-v: 91cb hci-v: 5.2 rev: dfb7
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 61.16 GiB (12.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: SOLIDIGM SSDPFINW512GZL size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: C02C temp: 26.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 47.23 GiB used: 13.94 GiB (29.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 243.2 MiB used: 22 MiB (9.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 114.95 GiB used: 47.2 GiB (41.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2
    rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:4853 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-2:2 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-2.3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 98mA
    chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 5-1:2 info: Syntek Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 174f:2465 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-7: 6-0:1 info: Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub ports: N/A rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: apt: 2299
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:
  Processes: 321 Uptime: 53m wakeups: 14 Memory: 5.51 GiB used: 3.16 GiB (57.4%) Init: systemd
  v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
  inxi: 3.3.13

[Charlie Brown]

It just suggests an alternative driver, so you can try on current/any distro:

Code: Select all

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89.git ; cd rtw89 ; make ; sudo make install ; echo 'blacklist rtw89_8852be' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtw89_8852be.conf

Copy-paste-Enter , Reboot.

[xaol]

Code: Select all

System:
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>

the stock 6.1 kernel that comes with mx 23 doesn't seem to have a driver (rtw89_8852be as mentioned in Charlie Brown's post) for that adapter, but the 6.3 one in the mx package installer appears to if you want to try that after install.

[timkb4cq]

The 6.1 kernel on the MX-23.2 KDE iso doesn't have the rtw89_8852be driver your wifi uses.
Any 6.3 or later kernel does. The MX-23.2 AHS iso has a 6.6 kernel and should work.
But you want KDE, so If you download the latest 6.6 kernel and headers here:

Code: Select all

https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/ahs/l/linux-liquorix/linux-image-liquorix-amd64_6.6-16~mx23ahs_amd64.deb
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/ahs/l/linux-liquorix/linux-headers-liquorix-amd64_6.6-16~mx23ahs_amd64.deb

you can then install those two debs on a MX-23.2 KDE install (or even on a LiveUSB if you choose root persistence on boot) and your wireless should come up after a reboot to the new kernel.

[Charlie Brown]

Ok, but if I'm not wrong it doesn't work with the driver in kernel though it shows "state: up" etc.., hence the question:

Device-1: Realtek vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up

[timkb4cq]

That QSI equivalent was from his Mint install where his wifi worked

Code: Select all

Kernel: 6.5.0-15-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    info: plank wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

[Charlie Brown]

Maybe I misunderstood the question: It works on Mint but not on MX ootb ... then, yes, just install a newer kernel :)

(Yes, I thought it was not working on Mint, too, therefore that page from Mint etc... )

[bidral]

Thanks friends, I guess I didn't express myself clearly. Ok, telling again. My laptop is new. First I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon there. It turned out that wifi is not getting the network. Then I work according to the advice of that link. Now wifi is working. I want to install MX Kde. I tried live and saw that the wifi was not working. My question is that if I install rtw89_8852be, will the wifi work?

stay well

[Charlie Brown]

Ok, (it seems I understood the question correctly) but then again, the driver in kernel (rtw89_8852be which's loaded) seems to not work (assuming it's not another connection issue).

So, if you install a newer kernel on MX it may not work again (still nothing to lose, I'd try that first). So, you can try the alternative driver as above on both distros.

On MX you can temporarily use your dongle and install the most recent Liquorix with 2 clicks from "MX Package Installer" from menu. ..

Then if it's not working after a reboot (with the new kernel) : all you need to do is copy-paste-Enter that command then reboot.

[j2mcgreg]

The 6.1 kernel on the MX-23.2 KDE iso doesn't have the rtw89_8852be driver your wifi uses.
Any 6.3 or later kernel does. The MX-23.2 AHS iso has a 6.6 kernel and should work.
But you want KDE, so If you download the latest 6.6 kernel and headers here:

Code: Select all

https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/ahs/l/linux-liquorix/linux-image-liquorix-amd64_6.6-16~mx23ahs_amd64.deb
https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/ahs/l/linux-liquorix/linux-headers-liquorix-amd64_6.6-16~mx23ahs_amd64.deb

you can then install those two debs on a MX-23.2 KDE install (or even on a LiveUSB if you choose root persistence on boot) and your wireless should come up after a reboot to the new kernel.

There's ample evidence here in the forums by myself and @CharlesV et al that wifi problems on a Ryzen equipped computer can be solved by installing a Liquorix kernel.