WiFi drivers not detected

Hello.
I have problems with the internet connection that it does not detect wifi networks and I can only work with ethernet but I can not always use one.

The Wi-Fi panel and settings do not show any options about wireless connection.

I have tried things like these

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8821ce-dkms-git/
makepkg -si

(The same of this video How to Solve WiFi not working in Garuda Linux in Windows 10 | in Hindi - YouTube)

I have also tried to restart the wifi module.

I think my network driver did not install because it says N/A

λ inxi -Nxxxz
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A port: 2000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8821
class-ID: 0280
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
class-ID: 0200

I hope this helps

[🔴] × sudo systemctl status networkmanager.service
Unit networkmanager.service could not be found.
[🔴] × ip link show dev enp2s0
2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 54:e1:ad:be:0d:3a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I use KDE blackarch edition.

In your BIOS, is there a setting concerning Fast Boot? (Or something like that.)

If so, please make sure it is set to Thorough. If you've ever run Windows 10/11 on that machine, it can sometimes take Wifi/Bluetooth hostage by changing settings.

Other than that, I am not an expert in this field, but several forum members are. Let's see if they respond.

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I have Fast Boot disabled an also secure boot is disabled.

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Please provide your garuda-inxi as required by the template.
I don’t know if this one could be still applicable After so much time, but this user had to give up with blackarch, but had no problem with other edition. You could try from a live USB.

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I had the standard version of garuda which if I have all the drives correctly but I changed to the blackarch version for the tools it offers already installed
Thanks, I think I'll switch back to the standard version.

A moderator has requested you to provide your full system specs via the garuda-inxi command. You ignored his request. This is specified as required in both the help request template and the header of the Networking Support sub-forum.

Please include your garuda-inxi output on your next post or your thread will be binned.

This is the completely wrong driver for your wifi adapter. I highly suggest you don’t run commands you find online unless you understand what they do. One Realtek driver is not the same as all others and installing the wrong driver is only likely to make your issue worse. Please uninstall the erroneous driver you installed.

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Might be best to at this point just use Garuda and run normal BlackArch if it works or maybe go with Kali in a VM or live boot environment or something. No offense meant but you don't seem that familiar with Linux if you're installing random drivers
So a Debian based penetration testing Distro like Kali may be a better bet for you especially if you're learning still. Just my thoughts anyway so you're welcome to agree or disagree

My garuda garuda-inxi

λ garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 5.16.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=5eb3d847-b667-44a5-9620-e789f7e6c78f rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80XV v: Lenovo ideapad 320-15AST
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad 320-15AST
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40679WIN
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: 5PCN24WW date: 10/29/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 18.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 18.3/30.0 Wh (61.0%)
volts: 8.1 min: 7.4 model: LGC L16L2PB2 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
status: Full
CPU:
Info: model: AMD A6-9220 RADEON R4 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Excavator family: 0x15 (21) model-id: 0x70 (112) stepping: 0
microcode: 0x6006705
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 192 KiB
desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1966 high: 2549 min/max: 1300/2500 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2549 2: 1384
bogomips: 9981
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Syntek EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.3:5
chip-ID: 174f:116a class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: eDP res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 395mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (DRM 3.44.0 5.16.8-zen1-1-zen LLVM 13.0.0)
v: 4.5 Mesa 21.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.8-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A modules: rtl8821ae port: 2000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8821 class-ID: 0280
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821A Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-1.2:4 chip-ID: 0bda:0821 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 30.05 GiB (2.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: LCM2
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: HGST (Hitachi)
model: HTS545050A7E380 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: ACA0 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 470 GiB size: 470 GiB (100.00%) used: 30.02 GiB (6.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 25.7 MiB (26.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 470 GiB size: 470 GiB (100.00%)
used: 30.02 GiB (6.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 470 GiB size: 470 GiB (100.00%)
used: 30.02 GiB (6.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 470 GiB size: 470 GiB (100.00%)
used: 30.02 GiB (6.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 6.67 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 41.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 237 Uptime: 2h 5m wakeups: 1 Memory: 6.67 GiB
used: 2.89 GiB (43.4%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 2026 lib: 388 Shell: fish
v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.12
Garuda (2.5.4-2):
System install date:     2022-02-04
Last full system update: 2022-02-11
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       NetworkManager
Windows dual boot:       Probably (Run as root to verify)
Snapshots:               Snapper
Failed units:

Have you installed the driver from the AUR required for your device to work?

If so, which driver do you currently have installed?

Thread deemed abandoned.

did not provide the information required to render assistance.

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This is a different chipset, CE not AE.

This driver is present in the kernel, there is no need to install any additional drivers or make any changes.

Therefore, revert any other changes you made when you

and try linux-mainline if the driver included in linux-zen doesn’t work.

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