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I am using Lenovo-ideapad 330-15ARR. I just install ubuntu 18.04. My touchpad(elan) is not detected and also under wifi menu in setting, "Wifi adapter not found" message is displayed.

My wifi network adapter is rtl8821ce .

I tried many solutions mentioned in various websites. But all was in vein.

And also I shall provide kernel versions and other outputs of some commands.

    santosh@santosh-Lenovo:~$ uname -r
    4.19.1-041901-lowlatency

My output for "xinput":

    santosh@santosh-Lenovo:~$ xinput
    ⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
    ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
    ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
        ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Power Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ EasyCamera: EasyCamera                    id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Ideapad extra buttons                     id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]

My output for "less /proc/bus/input/devices" :

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
    N: Name="Lid Switch"
    P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=event0 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=21
    B: SW=1

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
    N: Name="Power Button"
    P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input1
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=kbd event1 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=3
    B: KEY=10000000000000 0

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
    N: Name="Power Button"
    P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input2
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=kbd event2 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=3
    B: KEY=10000000000000 0

    I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab83
    N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event3 leds 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=120013
    B: KEY=402000000 3803078f800d001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
    B: MSC=10
    B: LED=7

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
    N: Name="Video Bus"
    P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:03/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input4
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=kbd event4 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=3
    B: KEY=3e000b00000000 0 0 0

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
    N: Name="Video Bus"
    P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:0b/LNXVIDEO:02/input/input5
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=kbd event5 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=3
    B: KEY=3e000b00000000 0 0 0

    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
    N: Name="Ideapad extra buttons"
    P: Phys=ideapad/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.3/PNP0C09:00/VPC2004:00/input/input7
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=rfkill kbd event7 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=13
    B: KEY=81000800100c03 4400000000300000 0 2
    B: MSC=10

    I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
    N: Name="HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3"
    P: Phys=ALSA
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:03:00.1/sound/card0/input8
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=event8 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=21
    B: SW=140

    I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
    N: Name="HD-Audio Generic Mic"
    P: Phys=ALSA
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:03:00.6/sound/card1/input9
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=event9 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=21
    B: SW=10

    I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
    N: Name="HD-Audio Generic Headphone"
    P: Phys=ALSA
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:03:00.6/sound/card1/input10
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=event10 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=21
    B: SW=4

    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=5986 Product=1127 Version=5307
    N: Name="EasyCamera: EasyCamera"    
    P: Phys=usb-0000:03:00.4-1/button
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:03:00.4/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input11
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=kbd event11 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=3
    B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1c4f Product=0003 Version=0110
    N: Name="SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse"
    P: Phys=usb-0000:03:00.3-4/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:03:00.3/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/0003:1C4F:0003.0002/input/input12
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=mouse0 event6 
    B: PROP=0
    B: EV=17
    B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
    B: REL=103
    B: MSC=10

The output for "lspci" is

santosh@santosh-Lenovo:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15d0
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15d1
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15d3
00:01.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15d3
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15db
00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15dc
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 61)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15e8
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15e9
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ea
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15eb
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ec
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ed
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ee
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15ef
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Vega [Radeon Vega 8 Mobile] (rev c4)
03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 15de
03:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15df
03:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15e0
03:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15e1
03:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 15e3
04:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 61)

please help me out with this problem.

I am also eager to know how to extract .inf file from .exe file , to install windows driver using ndiswrapper.

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  • Edit the question to include results from terminal for dmesg | grep -i elan
    – Jeremy31
    Nov 19, 2018 at 18:52
  • Anyone answer this question please...
    – Santosh
    Nov 20, 2018 at 5:18
  • Go back to the 4.15 kernels and use askubuntu.com/a/1046580/300665 to fix wifi. If you want touchpad to work, post the info I request
    – Jeremy31
    Nov 20, 2018 at 22:03

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Lenovo ideapad 330 (15ARR) ubuntu issues and their solutions

Issue-1: None of the ubuntu distros are getting installed

Solution: Ubuntu distros lower than 18.10 will not work in this laptop, as minimum kernal version required is 4.18.

So install ubuntu 18.10 / xubuntu 18.10 / lubuntu 18.10 / kubuntu 18.10 in UEFI mode

Issue-2: Wifi is not working

Solution: Install drivers seperatly. In most of the cases the wifi network card manufacturer is Elan tech for this model.

So just run the following commands to download and install

git clone https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce.git
cd rtl8821ce/
sudo make all
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -a 8821ce
Check your wifi networks!

Issue-3: Touchpad is not working at all

Solution: You need to upgrade kernel to minimum 4.19.15-041915-generic . From these kernal version, the touchpad drivers are present in the kernal.

So just download the kernal files and upgrade. Visit https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ to choose a kernal version

If you want to download 4.19.15, try the steps

First download the files
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.19.15/linux-headers-4.19.15-041915_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.19.15/linux-headers-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.19.15/linux-modules-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.19.15/linux-image-unsigned-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
Install
dpkg -i linux-headers-4.19.15-041915_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_all.deb
dpkg -i linux-headers-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
dpkg -i linux-modules-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
dpkg -i linux-image-unsigned-4.19.15-041915-generic_4.19.15-041915.201901130432_amd64.deb
Reboot

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