RTL8822be - no wifi adapter

[jonathon]

@juliadabrowka

  Model: "Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter"
    Driver Status: rtw88_8822be is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtw88_8822be"
    Driver Status: rtw_8822be is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtw_8822be"

You have two conflicting driver modules available.

You should blacklist the one that didn’t work (i.e. the one you didn’t install) then reboot:

GitHub - lwfinger/rtw88: A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the...

The other thread with an awful lot of troubleshooting is here:

RTL8822be - Issues with Realtek Wifi

So, I have a new Lenovo Ideapad L340 15IRH Gaming laptop, and I've been trying to use Linux on it. However, in every distro I've tried so far with this new laptop, my wifi and bluetooth just won't work. So, after about a month of distro hopping, I finally landed here (I'm currently running Garuda GNOME), and to my great surprise, the bluetooth works flawlessly here. So, I do wanna congratulate the team on this great job, because in my experience this is the best looking distro and the only distr…

I don’t think there’s any value in repeating those ideas here, but if blacklisting doesn’t work then you can have a read through.