Can't enable wifi, no connections available

I recent dual booted manjaro with windows and I’ve been using with wired connection, but this week I tried to use the wifi and it didn’t show up, I can’t see any connections available

inxi -Fxx System: Host: manjaro Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF Gaming FX705DT_FX705DT v: 1.0 serial: <superuser/root required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX705DT v: 1.0 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX705DT.310 date: 12/24/2019 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 32.2 Wh condition: 52.3/64.1 Wh (82%) volts: 15.1/15.6 model: FX70542 serial: N/A status: Discharging CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 33550 Speed: 1267 MHz min/max: 1400/2100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1223 2: 1273 3: 1222 4: 1222 5: 1225 6: 1223 7: 1275 8: 1254 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 450.80.02 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1f91 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Picasso vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8 Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 3-1:2 chip ID: 13d3:56a2 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu,nvidia FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96 OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.16-2-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 Device-2: Razer USA Electra V2 USB type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-3:3 chip ID: 1532:0514 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 04:d4:c4:6e:7a:c9 Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: AzureWave driver: N/A port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c821 Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 33.63 GiB (7.1%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW512G8 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: BTNH90350J7S512A Partition: ID-1: / size: 80.02 GiB used: 33.60 GiB (42.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2400 Info: Processes: 278 Uptime: 9m Memory: 7.28 GiB used: 2.87 GiB (39.4%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: N/A Packages: 1265 pacman: 1256 snap: 9 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05

You have to cold reboot your laptop to enable Wi-Fi again. It is a known issue with the RTL8821CE driver.

  • power off
  • wait 1 minute
  • power on again and boot in linux

If you want to upgrade to kernel 5.9 at some point you will have to blacklist the integrated rtw88_8821ce driver first as it is not compatible yet with your adapter.

Check this thread for more details: WIFI not working in linux 5.9.1 · Issue #176 · tomaspinho/rtl8821ce · GitHub

Hi, @pipoca3022

Please, also take a look at this post https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wifi-adapter-not-found-rtl8821ce/27568/3
The problem was solve there.

Hope it help, regards,

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thanks for the help, it didn’t work for me, but the solution from @j8a works just fine!

thanks a lot, it works fine now, I’m new on manjaro and its good to see a good forum like this

Thanks :slight_smile:

I assumed that you had the driver already installed.

Nevertheless, keep the blacklisting in mind when you decide to move to kernel 5.9 or you will end up without Wi-Fi.

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