No wifi on HP Probook

Hello,

I replaced my Windows 10 (bye bye) by Manjaro XFCE, so no dual boot.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to connect to WIFI… I am very beginner and I am from Xubuntu.

lspci :

...
Network controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device b852
...

rfkill list :

0: hci0: Bluetooh
         Soft blocked : no
         Hard blocked : no

Thank you

Hi @Yass, and welcome!

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:bangbang::bangbang: Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

Please edit your post accordingly.

can you post the output of inxi -NSMBa, lists

  1. N - Network devices
  2. MS - System info
  3. B - Bluetooth
System:
  Host: ... Kernel: 6.1.26-1-MANJARO
    arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
    root=UUID=ddc5c5b4-d42b-4cba-bdcc-f0193da7d47c rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ProBook 445 14 inch G9 Notebook PC
    v: N/A Chassis: type: 10
  Mobo: HP model: 8B17 v: KBC Version 22.47.00
    UEFI: HP v: U88 Ver. 01.09.00 date: 10/18/2022
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard ProBook 445 G9/455 G9 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  Device-2: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852
    class-ID: 0280

Maybe wifi driver must be installed ?

The driver should be included in the kernel. If it is not recognized with kernel 6.1, try 6.2 or 6.3 and reboot.
Manjaro-Settings-Manager- Kernel

Ok I will try 6.3 (better than 6.2 hein ??).

And I don’t know if it is usefull but when I type “mhwd” I have :

0000:01:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI

That is showing your Ethernet.

Thank you very much, its good with 6.3.0-1 but I have a question : why this version isn’t recommended ? Only LTS version are recommended… so it is risky to use this version (6.3.0-1) ??

You should be fine. Just update to a newer kernel when 6.3 is marked EOL. Best practice is to read the update announcements on the forum.

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