Hiya,
I just got a Thinkpad E16: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpade/thinkpad-e16-(16-inch-amd)/21jtcto1wwus1 and installed EndeavourOS but I’m having difficulty getting the Wi-Fi to work.
On boot, the laptop connects to the Wi-Fi for a quick second and then immediately disconnects. After that, I can’t select any Wi-Fi network.
I have disabled fast startup.
I can’t seem to get the Wi-Fi chip info since it doesn’t seem to be installed at all. I tried this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtw88-dkms-git and this: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89/ and no go. It does look like Windows is reporting this as a “RTL8822BE: WLAN/Bluetooth combo solutions, need to install WLAN and Bluetooth drivers” chip.
dkms status
rtw89/r561.4981987, 6.5.8-arch1-1, x86_64: installed
ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 74:5d:22:c3:fe:19 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
hwinfo --netcard --bluetooth | grep -Ei “(speed|hotplug|model|status|cmd|file|detected|driver:)” | grep -v “Config S”
Model: “Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller”
Driver: “r8169”
Device File: enp2s0
Link detected: yes
Driver Status: r8169 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe r8169”
Model: “Realtek Bluetooth Radio”
Hotplug: USB
Driver: “btusb”
Speed: 12 Mbps
Driver Status: btusb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe btusb”
inxi -Na
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron Technology Inc 2450 NVMe SSD [HendrixV] (DRAM-less) (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Device 1ed0:2283
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Barcelo (rev c4)
05:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
05:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
05:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
05:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
05:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
05:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
I’m not sure if the above help at all but if there’s any more information I can provide, please let me know. The Wi-Fi does work on Windows 11 (but did not work ootb either, had to install drivers from Lenovo’s website).
It looks like on boot, Wi-Fi doesn’t work. But when I put the laptop to sleep and kick it back on, Wi-Fi works again. To clarify, Wi-Fi works after I boot the laptop up from sleep but not from a restart or a shut-down. This has been pretty reliable but Google searches turn up the opposite (Wi-Fi stops working after sleep) so it’s hard to pinpoint what on earth is happening.