Error: Connection activation failed: (53) The Wi-Fi network could not be found. - Realtek 10ec:8852 on Ubuntu 20.04

I have an HP Envy x360 laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5000 series CPU and AMD Radon GPU. I installed ubuntu 20.04 on it. But I cannot connect to WIFI. Here is the info about WIFI on my system:

"lshw -C network" output:

 *-network description: Wireless interface product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 logical name: wlo1 version: 00 serial: c8:94:02:a9:c7:ef width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtw89_pci driverversion=5.13.0-30-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:89 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0800000-d08fffff 

"lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3" output:

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8852] DeviceName: WLAN Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:88e1] Kernel driver in use: rtw89_pci 

I followed this link to install a new rtw89pci driver.WiFi adapter not found Realtek 10ec:8852 on Ubuntu 21.04Unfortunately, after I finished all steps described there my wifi still didn't work. I can select my home WIFI network, but I cannot connect to it.

I got the following error message when I tried to connect to WIFI:
Error: Connection activation failed: (53) The Wi-Fi network could not be found.

I did notice from my "lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3" output, it still says "Kernel driver in use: rtw89_pci". In reality it should be "rtw89pci". I don't know if this is the issue. I also don't know how to unload rtw89_pci and load rtw89pci. I did run "sudo modprobe rtw89pci" without issue.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

1 Reset to default

Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, Twitter, or Facebook.

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy

You Might Also Like