Thinkpad e15 wifi not working on fresh install (realtek)

And here I thought my Google-fu was good… shakes head

Welp, it’s in the AUR:

$ pamac search 8852
rtw89-dkms-git                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1:r148.4dc5371-3  AUR
Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device

So can be installed using

pamac build rtw89-dkms-git

But make sure the headers for your kernel(s) are installed first:

pamac install $(pamac list --quiet --installed | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-headers"}' ORS=' ')

This will install the kernel headers for all installed kernels.

Note:

I just remembered why I didn’t recommend it: it’s because it mentioned it was for the Realtek 8852AE, while yours is, in fact, the Realtek 8852BU from what I was able to see.

I also noticed you tried that already, so this will probably not work.

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