I have a Lenovo G3 laptop running Debian 12 with wi-fi that works for minutes at a time.
I've tried a lot of suggested changes to /etc/modprobe.d but none have fix my wi-fi problem. One post I saw said their laptop worked when they tried Ubuntu Live. Same here! My laptop is set to do a UEFI boot [?? I really don't know the proper terms]. Is there a "proper" place to get firmware from or should I just get it off the Ubuntu USB stick? And once I get the firmware, what do I have to do to get Debian to use that instead of the most probably broken firmware it's using now? For comparision, log messages for the wireless card when running Ubuntu list the firmware as version 9.9.15 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i 8822ce [ 20.205438] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [ 20.239352] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: WOW Firmware version 9.9.4, H2C version 15 [ 20.243721] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: Firmware version 9.9.15, H2C version 15 [ 20.297759] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0 and the log messages when running Debian and wireless is mostly unusable show the firmware as 9.9.14 ----- Debian [ 4.206179] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003) [ 4.208338] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtw88/rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin [ 4.208346] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: Firmware version 9.9.4, H2C version 15 [ 4.208366] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin [ 4.208368] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0: Firmware version 9.9.14, H2C version 15 [ 4.326996] rtw_8822ce 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0 I don't know if there's some other difference, but it'd be nice to see if just upgrading to Firmware version 9.9.15 fixes my wifi. But how to do that? TIA Lee
