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Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:46 pm
by Trenien
I've just installed 20 (Cinnamon), and I've had the nasty surprise of finding that wifi wasn't even seen by the system (when it worked perfectly fine with the live version).

I've followed the instructions given here viewtopic.php?f=53&t=322651&p=1833055&h ... e#p1833055 by sleeper12, and 'lo and behold, the OS now sees the card, but tells me no wireless network are available. I've tried to change the antenna parameter from 1 to 4 with the following command :

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sudo modprobe -r rtl8723de && sleep 10 && modprobe rtl8723de ant_sel=1
And, unfortunately still no go.

Any suggestions ?

Here are the system informations

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.5 
           wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 17-ca1xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 85B3 v: 91.45 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.53 date: 12/27/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.7 Wh condition: 41.7/41.7 Wh (100%) volts: 13.1/11.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 
           type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 36730 
           Speed: 1507 MHz min/max: 1400/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1507 2: 1506 3: 1507 
           4: 1507 5: 1506 6: 1505 7: 3771 8: 3766 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 1002:15d8 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-37-generic LLVM 9.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de 
           Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: N/A bus ID: 03:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-37-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: rtl8723de v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:d723 
           IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 13.15 GiB (1.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: CV8-8E128-HP size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
           serial: <filter> 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
           serial: <filter> 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 22.79 GiB used: 6.99 GiB (30.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: /home size: 86.17 GiB used: 212.4 MiB (0.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 7.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Elecom ELECOM USB mouse with wheel type: Mouse 
           driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1 chip ID: 056e:001c 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
           Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Device-2: 3-1:2 info: ASMedia Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s 
           bridge ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge 
           type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage rev: 2.0 chip ID: 174c:55aa 
           Hub: 3-2:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 05e3:0608 
           Device-3: 3-2.1:4 info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) ASM1153 type: Video 
           driver: uvcvideo rev: 2.0 chip ID: 05c8:0238 
           Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 279 Uptime: 1m Memory: 13.65 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (8.9%) Init: systemd v: 245 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client inxi: 3.0.38

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:17 pm
by Pjotr
Trenien wrote: ⤴Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:46 pm I've tried to change the antenna parameter from 1 to 4
1 to 4? :shock:

There's only 1 and 2 to try. There are no more flavours, as the default laptop WiFi chipset has only two antenna sockets.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:10 pm
by sleeper12
Can you post results of:

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 rfkill list

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 mokutil --sb-state

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 3:29 am
by Trenien
Secure boot is disabled and wireless (and bluetooth) are not blocked, either through hardware or software.

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rfkill list 
0: phy1: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

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mokutil --sb-state 
SecureBoot disabled

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:41 am
by sleeper12
That all looks good. Try:

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 sudo modprobe rtl8723de
Or

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 sudo ifconfig wlp2s0
If that doesn't help, see if you can turn wifi on in Bios or reset Bios to default.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:56 am
by Trenien
That did the trick!

Thanks

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE [SOLVED]

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:58 am
by sleeper12
Which one worked for you?

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE [SOLVED]

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:16 pm
by Trenien
Oops. I didn't pay attention (I need new glasses) and used both.

Well, I just updated the kernel and, of course, it stopped functioning. I guess I'll try the whole process again...

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:33 pm
by sleeper12
You may have lost the driver with a kernel update. Does this show a driver in use?

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 lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:12 pm
by Trenien
Well, one modprobe rtw88 and a reboot later, it works. I'll see if it keeps.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:18 pm
by sleeper12
I'm not sure how you got rtw88, but if it works..ok.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:25 pm
by Trenien
Well, here I am, with the same problem I had before.
Ever since the original install, each and every time I did an update, I had to tinker to have the wifi work again. And then it stopped working for no apparent reason. After trying a few things, I got fed up and reinstalled the whole system (and again, the wifi worked without a hitch in the live session).

Well, still no luck, before and after I updated the system to 5.4, nor after I installed the git module with the following commands :

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git clone https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de.git -b current
dkms add ./rtl8723de
dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
depmod -a
reboot
and no more luck with a subsequent

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 modprobe -r rtl8723de
I have also tried the rtl8821ce-dkms module found in the repository (after a clean uninstall of the git module) and it didn't work either.

I really don't know what else to try.

Here are the results of a few tests :

Configuration

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-59-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 
           wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 17-ca1xxx v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 85B3 v: 91.45 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.53 date: 12/27/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.7 Wh condition: 36.7/36.7 Wh (100%) volts: 13.1/11.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard Primary serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64 
           type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 36731 
           Speed: 3986 MHz min/max: 1400/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3957 2: 3912 3: 1577 
           4: 1587 5: 1591 6: 1576 7: 1582 8: 1576 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Picasso vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 1002:15d8 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-59-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 1002:15de 
           Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: N/A bus ID: 03:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-59-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: N/A port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:d723 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 227.09 GiB (21.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: LITE-ON model: CV8-8E128-HP size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
           serial: <filter> 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
           serial: <filter> 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 22.79 GiB used: 7.14 GiB (31.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-2: /home size: 86.17 GiB used: 39.66 GiB (46.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 7.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Device-1: 1-3:6 info: USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1 
           chip ID: 275d:0a29 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
           Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Device-2: 3-1:2 info: ASMedia Name: ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s 
           bridge ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge 
           type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage rev: 2.0 chip ID: 174c:55aa 
           Hub: 3-2:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 05e3:0608 
           Device-3: 3-2.1:4 info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) ASM1153 type: Video 
           driver: uvcvideo rev: 2.0 chip ID: 05c8:0238 
           Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 270 Uptime: 6m Memory: 13.65 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (10.8%) Init: systemd v: 245 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client inxi: 3.0.38
Secureboot is disabled and rfkill list gives nothing (understandable I suppose as the system reports no driver for the wireless module).


Any idea ?

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:47 pm
by sleeper12
It looks like you are missing a driver. Since you said the rtw88 worked before, try #7 here:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... k.html#ID7

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:17 pm
by Trenien
I'd forgotten about rtw88. Unfortunately, it didn't work this time.
To be precise, I compiled and installed it with no issue (I even got a big INSTALL SUCCESS at the end). But after cleaning and rebooting, still no driver associated with the wifi. Worse, a modprobe rtw88 only gave me the following :

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modprobe: FATAL: Module rtw88 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.4.0-59-generic
As a side note, I checked what exactly was loaded with lsmod | grep rtw, and I had that :

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rtw_8723de             16384  0
rtw_8723d              53248  1 rtw_8723de
rtw_pci                24576  1 rtw_8723de
rtw_core              176128  2 rtw_8723d,rtw_pci
mac80211              843776  2 rtw_core,rtw_pci
cfg80211              704512  2 rtw_core,mac80211
Might there be some kind of conflict that prevents the module from associating with the hardware ?

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:25 pm
by sleeper12
Try this again:

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 sudo modprobe rtl8723de
You might need to reboot

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:29 pm
by Trenien
Same result as for rtw88 :

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modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8723de not found in directory /lib/modules/5.4.0-59-generic

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:32 pm
by sleeper12
Ok, try this one line at a time:

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sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/smlinux/rtl8723de.git -b current
dkms add ./rtl8723de
dkms install rtl8723de/5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414
depmod -a
Then reboot

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:44 pm
by Trenien
It finally worked !
I don't get why the exact same thing didn't a couple of hours ago, though...

Of note : when I rebooted, the computer hanged on the loading screen with no way of knowing what was happening. I had to hard reboot it after a few minutes and it then started with no issue, and a working wifi.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:49 pm
by sleeper12
Ok, good. No idea why it didn't work before.

Re: Wifi not working after install - RTL8723DE

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:52 pm
by sleeper12
Oh, I think when you did it before, you maybe then removed the driver with modprobe -r.
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