Realtek Network Adaptor

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Hi, I held down Left Shift for the entirety of reboot twice and nothing came up. Is there a way I can do it differently?

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oh you just need to tap it
(otherwise I guess we can edit the same grub file as before and change ‘hidden’ to ‘menu’ or something)

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I’ll try that, I have a slight feeling its my HDMI being funky

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Yeah, even tapping occasionally during startup didnt work. What now? Its not showing the node menu for some reason, goes from HP logo to sign-in,

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this driver will work for your tp-link wifi adapter.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl88x2bu-dkms-git

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How do I install this? :smiley:

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go to add/remove software and select preference and enable third party support. You will find it in AUR repo and install it.

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I’m sorry, I’m new to Linux so I don’t know how to find the AUR repo, how do I do so?

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Installed it, rebooted, still nothing :frowning:

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sudo ip link set wlan0 up or sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
do the same for wlp2s0 interface
This bring their states up

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First one went through but I don’t know if it did anything, second one pops up as “ifconfig: command not found”

As for wlp2s0, I just get “cannot find device: wlp2s0”

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sudo ip link set wlan1 up

or whatever additional wifi interface is listed in ip link

This should enable your wifi adapter to see nearby wifi networks

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Tried the results I get from running ip link, none of them work. Still nothing :frowning:

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what does it say in ip link?

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    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp1s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:62:e5:58:32:b3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 90:32:4b:20:26:b3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: enp0s20f0u1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 16:3a:1a:e0:97:ed brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: wlan1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 98:48:27:60:c3:70 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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For funzies lets throw in

rfkill list
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0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: phy2: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
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it may be your wifi signal is too weak to connect. Try a wifi quality tool LinSSID or move closer to your wifi access point

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I’m not sure why that would the case, it worked fine in the past from where my laptop stays I don’t see why that would’ve changed