No Wi-Fi connection in 64-bit Mate 19

[JeremyB]

try https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st13758010

[Not Tech Savvy]

Do you mean-

1. Try the code from the specific post you linked,

2. Try everything from the thread you linked,
or
3. Try asking for help over in the thread you linked?

[JeremyB]

Use the code from that post

[Not Tech Savvy]

It came up with-

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.4ubuntu1).
dkms is already the newest version (2.3-3ubuntu9.2).
git is already the newest version (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.1).
linux-headers-4.15.0-29-generic is already the newest version (4.15.0-29.31).
linux-headers-4.15.0-29-generic set to manually installed.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.

[JeremyB]

So now do

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 git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
cd rtl8821ce
sudo ./dkms-install.sh

Reboot

[Not Tech Savvy]

owner@myLinuxPC:~$ git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
fatal: destination path 'rtl8821ce' already exists and is not an empty directory.
owner@myLinuxPC:~$ cd rtl8821ce
owner@myLinuxPC:~/rtl8821ce$ sudo ./dkms-install.sh
[sudo] password for owner:
sudo: ./dkms-install.sh: command not found
owner@myLinuxPC:~/rtl8821ce$

[Not Tech Savvy]

I haven't started using the laptop for anything yet, so if re-installing LM19 would help, then I don't have any work or documents on it to lose. Would an older version of LM be better? Or Cinnamon instead of MATE?

[JeremyB]

Try

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rm -rf rtl8821ce
git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
cd rtl8821ce
sudo ./dkms-install.sh

Reboot

[Not Tech Savvy]

Still nothing.

I'd like to make sure I am looking in the right place, I am clicking on the small rectangle on the bottom right of the screen and only seeing the following in the pop-up-

Ethernet Network (greyed out)
Wired connection 1
Disconnect
VPN Connections
Enable Networking (ticked)
Connection Information
Edit Connections...

Is trhat where I should be looking?

[JeremyB]

Post results for

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dkms status

And also post results for the wireless script link in my signature

[Not Tech Savvy]

No results for the first one.

Results for one from your sig-

owner@myLinuxPC:~$ wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info
--2018-07-31 20:18:40-- https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ubunt ... eless-info [following]
--2018-07-31 20:18:40-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ubunt ... eless-info
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 2001:8002:e21:f002::f5ff, 61.9.194.18
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|2001:8002:e21:f002::f5ff|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17021 (17K) [text/plain]
Saving to: 'wireless-info’

wireless-info 100%[===================>] 16.62K --.-KB/s in 0s

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
2018-07-31 20:18:41 (104 MB/s) - 'wireless-info’ saved [17021/17021]

[sudo] password for owner:

Results saved in "/home/owner/wireless-info.txt".

[Not Tech Savvy]

I've now installed the Cinnamon version of LM 19. But that hasn't fixed it.