I am running ubuntu 16.04 LTS. When I first installed it Earlier this year i had network UNCLAIMED issues due to the Realtek rtl8732de drive. which i fixed using the correct answer from this question.
Yesterday, after updating and restarting, my wifi wasn't connecting again because of the same issue, this time i fixed it using the same method, but from a different source.
Which did fix the "network UNCLAIMED" issue only to replace it with a "network DISABLED" one. from the wifi icon on top right: enable networking and enable wifi are both ticked, but "wifi networks" is greyed out, and under it "device not ready".
result of sudo lshw -C network:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 15
serial: ac:e2:d3:d2:31:da
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 ip=192.168.1.22 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:a2104000-a2104fff memory:a2100000-a2103fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlo1
version: 00
serial: 40:9f:38:a9:ad:41
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8723de driverversion=4.15.0-33-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:132 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:a2000000-a200ffff
result of rfkill list:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
I tried pretty much all solutions i could find, updating/upgrading, restarting network manager services, auto-remove, etc. I also tried removing both the drivers i had installed for solving the network unclaimed issue (rm -rf and dkms remove --all), and reinstalling only the https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8723de.git one. But the problem persists.
result of dkms status:
bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-33-generic, x86_64: installed
rtl8723de, 5.1.1.8_21285.20171026_COEX20170111-1414: added
I would appreciate any help
Edits:
Kernel version:
4.15.03-33-generic
After removing the driver incompatible with newer kernels, and installing the https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git, i still have the network DISABLED error, but the dkms status changed:
bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-33-generic, x86_64: installed
rtlwifi-new, 0.6, 4.15.0-33-generic, x86_64: installed
I think the issue now is that the wifi network's driver is still set to rtl8723de, not rtlwifi, however. I can't blacklist rtl8723de from /etc/modeprobe.d/blacklist.conf, because, one of the outputs of lsmod | grep rtl8723de:
rtlwifi 163840 5 phydm_mod,rtl_pci,btcoexist,rtl8723_common,rtl8723de
the driver that i want to use includes the old driver's name, so i don't know if/how i can blacklist the old driver