I bought a new Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro that ships with this network card, full name:
Realtek RTL8852AE WiFi 6 802.11ax PCIe Adapter
Ubuntu (or any other linux distribution) does not recognize or provide drivers for this wireless card. Please tell me if there is a viable solution to this problem, or I will have to wait for an unknown amount of time until the driver is provided.
I already searched through askubuntu and found this Network driver for Realtek 8852 20.10
but the guide is very hard for me to understand, they use an unofficial driver from a kind git user, and say that I will need to rebuild it every time my system gets updated. Another big concern for me is, even if I were to do all this, how can I get it installed in the first place? The driver itself requires some packages that I would need to install first, which I cannot do without internet connection. My laptop does not have an ethernet port, only wireless card that does not work. I am desperate to make Linux work on my main machine and I don't want to give up.
62 Answers
Now that you have installed the prerequisites successfully by tethering, let's install the driver. It can all be done from the terminal!
git clone
cd rtw89
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtw89pciYour wireless should now be working.
When Update Manager offers and installs a later kernel version, also known as linux-image, after the requested reboot, you must rebuild the driver:
cd rtw89
make clean
git pull
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rtw89pciPlease retain the rtw89pci directory and these instructions for that time.
4Currently, the simplest and most elegant solution to this problem (and Ethernet issues for some other Lenovo models, like the P14s Gen2) if you are running 20.04 seems to be:sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04d
