[Solved] Wireless network not showing up

[goblinnesharke]

Hi, massive newbie here. I have just installed Mint to dual boot with Windows, but when I try to connect to the internet Mint does not show any wireless networks at all.

The networks still work fine in Windows. I disabled Windows fast boot and that didn't fix it. Doing the driver check with my USB installer showed no new drivers needed. I do not own an ethernet cable. I've tried things from other threads but they aren't working and I still don't fully understand Bash.

If I do inxi -Nn:
Network:
Device-1: Realtek driver: N/A
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: enp43s0 state: down mac: 08:8f:c3:77:c8:f7


If I do rfkill list:
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Thanks a ton.

[goblinnesharke]

Image link is what comes up when I try
clear ; uname -r ; inxi -N ; lspci | grep Eth ; sudo lshw -C network

https://ibb.co/kMLsh69

(Due to aforementioned wifi issues I am posting from my phone and can't copy and paste/screenshot, sorry!)

[sleeper12]

You might need to disable secure boot in Bios. Check:

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mokutil --sb-state

[goblinnesharke]

Got "SecureBoot enabled". I disable it in the BIOS menus?

ETA: Disabled secureboot in the uefi menus, did not fix the issue.

[sleeper12]

Yes.

[goblinnesharke]

It's disabled, but inxi -Nn doesn't look any different.

[sleeper12]

Is it a usb wifi adapter?

[goblinnesharke]

No, I don't own one of those.

[sleeper12]

Have you disabled fast startup (not fast boot) in Windows? Also, post what this shows:

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net

[goblinnesharke]

I have disabled both.

Results here: https://ibb.co/1nVD7ty

[sleeper12]

Try #9 here: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... k.html#ID9

[goblinnesharke]

Established a tether connection! Now I don't have to take pictures of my screen at least.

However, running into an issue in part d:

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cameron@chj:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc git build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest version (4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1).
linux-headers-5.15.0-56-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-56.62).
The following additional packages will be installed:
  g++ g++-11 git-man libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev libcrypt-dev
  liberror-perl libnsl-dev libstdc++-11-dev libtirpc-dev rpcsvc-proto
Suggested packages:
  g++-multilib g++-11-multilib gcc-11-doc git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit
  git-doc git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn
  glibc-doc libstdc++-11-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  build-essential g++ g++-11 git git-man libc-dev-bin libc-devtools libc6-dev
  libcrypt-dev liberror-perl libnsl-dev libstdc++-11-dev libtirpc-dev
  rpcsvc-proto
0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 85.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libc-dev-bin amd64 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 [20.4 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libcrypt-dev amd64 1:4.4.27-1 [112 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 rpcsvc-proto amd64 1.4.2-0ubuntu6 [68.5 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtirpc-dev amd64 1.3.2-2ubuntu0.1 [192 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libnsl-dev amd64 1.3.0-2build2 [71.3 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libc6-dev amd64 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 [2,099 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libstdc++-11-dev amd64 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04 [2,087 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 g++-11 amd64 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04 [11.4 MB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 g++ amd64 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1 [1,412 B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 build-essential amd64 12.9ubuntu3 [4,744 B]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 liberror-perl all 0.17029-1 [26.5 kB]
Ign:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Ign:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libc-devtools amd64 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 [28.9 kB]
Ign:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Err:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80]
Ign:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Err:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80]
Fetched 16.1 MB in 2s (10.5 MB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git-man_2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/git/git_2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.39 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I tried apt-get update, and...

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cameron@chj:~$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)

[sleeper12]

Any different with:

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sudo apt-get update

[goblinnesharke]

This happened:

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cameron@chj:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for cameron:       
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com vera InRelease
Hit:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com vera Release                                                                
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                          
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]                        
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]        
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [108 kB]                 
Get:8 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease [3,316 B]
Err:8 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7A3A762FAFD4A51F
Reading package lists... Done
E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 1h 47min 54s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 1h 48min 24s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-backports/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 1h 49min 8s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
W: GPG error: http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7A3A762FAFD4A51F
E: The repository 'http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I'm assuming the spotify stuff isn't important; but the ubuntu stuff probably is....

[sleeper12]

That aside temporarily, are you able to install the driver now?

[goblinnesharke]

Same result on step d:
[codecameron@chj:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc git build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
[sudo] password for cameron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gcc is already the newest version (4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1).
linux-headers-5.15.0-56-generic is already the newest version (5.15.0-56.62).
The following additional packages will be installed:
g++ g++-11 git-man liberror-perl libstdc++-11-dev
Suggested packages:
g++-multilib g++-11-multilib gcc-11-doc git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn
libstdc++-11-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential g++ g++-11 git git-man liberror-perl libstdc++-11-dev
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,085 kB/17.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 69.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Ign:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git amd64 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
Ign:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 git-man all 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.5
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ ... .5_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ ... _amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[/code]

Opening the failed to fetch links in my browser also got me to a 404 not found page.

[sleeper12]

This is getting beyond my ability, but try:

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sudo apt-get --fix-missing

[sleeper12]

You could also try a different mirror in Software Sources.

[goblinnesharke]

Got on the wifi!!!

It turned out the issue was my system time? Setting it to be network time made it possible to update and go through that driver tutorial you linked. Thank you so much!!!

[sleeper12]

Glad to hear it, I wasn't quite sure what else to do. If you still get the spotify error, try:

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 sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7A3A762FAFD4A51F 

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 sudo apt update