Hi,
I would be very grateful if anyone can help me to get the onboard wifi card working on my HP Pavilion 15-p216na.
When the machine first boots, the wifi card itself is detected, confirmed via lspci (shown below) however it does not find any networks in the Network Manager GUI. I'm currently using a USB wifi card which does work properly.
I can see here that the drive indicates it wants the 8101 driver, yet it is using the r8169 driver.
I tried to disable the r8169 to see if the wifi card would then switch to the 8101.
The output of lspci then shows that the wifi card is not using any driver
I've managed to blacklist the r8169 module, so the onboard wifi card is now using the r8101 I downloaded and installed from realtek
Disappointingly, there's no wireless interface appearing on iwconfig, and nor is there anything in dmesg that appears to be related to this.
Unfortunately this is where my knowledge and expertise hits a brick wall and I don't know how to investigate further. I'll keep looking for an answer, but if anyone is kind enough to help that would make my day :).
I would be very grateful if anyone can help me to get the onboard wifi card working on my HP Pavilion 15-p216na.
When the machine first boots, the wifi card itself is detected, confirmed via lspci (shown below) however it does not find any networks in the Network Manager GUI. I'm currently using a USB wifi card which does work properly.
Code:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 08)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2296
Kernel driver in use: r8169
I tried to disable the r8169 to see if the wifi card would then switch to the 8101.
Code:
$ sudo modprobe -r r8169
$ sudo modprobe r8101
Code:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 08)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2296
Code:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 08)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2296
Kernel driver in use: r8101
Unfortunately this is where my knowledge and expertise hits a brick wall and I don't know how to investigate further. I'll keep looking for an answer, but if anyone is kind enough to help that would make my day :).