No WiFi card not found after update (RTL8822BE)

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Hi,
I updated openSUSE tumbleweed today. I now have the 5.17.5-1 kernel but my WiFI stopped working, NetworkManager can’t find my RealTek RTL8822BE wireless card anymore. I used to have a lot of problems with this card in the past but Larry’s github repo (https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88) has been working for me for a long time. until today. Booting with an older kernel doesn’t fix the problem.

Following the sticky in this forum:


$ lspci
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter


$ lspci -n
01:00.0 0280: 10ec:b822


$ dmesg
    4.942475] bpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 883
    4.943076] Started bpfilter
    4.947136] rtw_8822be 0000:01:00.0: Firmware version 27.2.0, H2C version 13
    4.948068] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
    5.115213] VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
...
    5.199797] mei_hdcp 0000:00:16.0-b638ab7e-94e2-4ea2-a552-d1c54b627f04: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_hdcp_component_ops [i915])
    5.226868] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
    5.265546] rtw_8822be 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
    5.324580] ee1004 7-0050: 512 byte EE1004-compliant SPD EEPROM, read-only


$ sudo iwconfig
wlp1s0    IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off



$ sudo iwlist -scan
wlp1s0    Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
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Correction: I am currently running kernel 5.17.5 but the update that broke it was to 5.17.7. Neither kernel works so the issue probably isn’t there.

I also forgot to include this (and I didn’t see an edit button):


$ sudo lspci -v
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad E595
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
    Memory at a1100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
    Capabilities: [148] Device Serial Number 00-e0-4c-ff-fe-b8-22-01
    Capabilities: [158] Latency Tolerance Reporting
    Capabilities: [160] L1 PM Substates
    Kernel driver in use: rtw_8822be
    Kernel modules: wl, rtw_8822be

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Hi
You need to install NetworkManager-wifi as the package was split and this is a recommends. I suspect you have disabled recommends hence the issue. Also should be at 5.17.9 kernel on 20220521 snapshot.

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Thank you, installing NetworkManager-wifi solved the issue.

I can’t remember changing that setting but zypper was indeed configured to not install recommended packages, I’ve reverted that change now.

5

Hi
Maybe because of texlive recommends? It was due to the packaging split in NetworkManager…

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Kernel modules: wl, rtw_8822be

PS
You can delete the broadcom-wl packages if there is no broadcom Wlan Chip.
And set them to the Locklist.