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[Solved] PRO msi z690-a ddr4 wifi No WiFi and no ethernet on ubuntu 20.04

2022/04/18

Description

Installed ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop, but Wifi, BlueTooth and wired ethernet all wouldn’t’ work.

Solved Ethernet

  1. Setting IP
  2. Download intel iwlwifi firmware support linux
  3. Extract the iwlwifi-???.tgz and follow the step of README file in it.
    • open the terminal and copy firmware file into /lib/firmware
      E.g.:
      ​​​​​​​​sudo cp iwlwifi-???.ucode /lib/firmware
      
  4. reboot
reboot
  1. The ethernet work~ but my wifi still not work

  2. If the method above no work, I had done the step below, I'm not sure which method make it work though.

    • Update Firmware on Ubuntu
      ​​​​​​​​sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
      
      ​​​​​​​​sudo service fwupd start
      
      ​​​​​​​​sudo fwupdmgr refresh
      
      ​​​​​​​​sudo fwupdmgr update
      
      ​​​​​​​​reboot
      

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