Hey guys! I just reinstalled arch to get grub instead of systemd boot and because the wifi started to working weird, so I reinstalled it and I installed the drivers for my wifi card the card just disappeared from iwctl. What do I need to do?
#arch with no wifi
gloomy rover
flint fog
More info required: what WiFi card and what driver/how did you install? Does the hardware show up in lspci or lsusb?
Sidenote: switching from systemdboot to grub could have been done within the already installed system, but that's in the past now. It's okay. I'm not opposed to a clean install occasionally.
gloomy rover
so I have RTL8852AE 802.11 and the drivers I compiled was RTW89
gloomy rover
my usb wifi adapter is getting slow too
gloomy rover
More info required: what WiFi card and what driver/how did you install? Does the...
RTL8852AE 802.11ax
lspci
flint fog
Did you install the package from the aur? Or did you do a make/make install?
Also, do you actually even need a driver? This text from the github readme suggests this driver is already mainlined?
This branch was created from the version merged into the wireless-drivers-next repo, which is in the 5.16 kernel. IF YOU USE DRIVERS FROM THIS REPO FOR KERNELS 5.16+, YOU MUST BLACKLIST THE KERNEL VERSIONS!!!! FAILING TO DO THIS WILL RESULT IN ALL MANNER OF STRANGE ERRORS.
gloomy rover
Did you install the package from the aur? Or did you do a `make`/`make install`?...
I compiled it, and I don't think I needed the driver but I was finding weird the wifi being so slow for me but not for other people in the house
gloomy rover
Did you install the package from the aur? Or did you do a `make`/`make install`?...
I used a github project
rtw89
gloomy rover
im using my usb wifi adapter and its with the same problem my wifi driver had before it stopped being recognized, its super slow
200kb/s installing a package
or something
im trying to install a game and its super slow
flint fog
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89
So this is the repo from which I pulled that quote. Did you blacklist the in-kernel module when you added this driver?
I'm still suspicious that this would even be necessary, because the driver has been mainlined
gloomy rover
So this is the repo from which I pulled that quote. Did you blacklist the in-ker...
Oh ok, didn't noticed that quote was from there, I didn't blacklist but idk how to do that 
gloomy rover
I'm still suspicious that this would even be necessary, because the driver has b...
I don't think was necessary too but it was slow so I thought the drivers would help
200kb/s
Took 2 hours to install arch
flint fog
flint fog
I think you're probably just in the crappy situation of having hardware that doesn't work well with Linux. I saw posts about trying to turn off ipv6, and Bluetooth if that's integrated on the chip. You mentioned a USB WiFi device, is that a different device, or the same one? In my experience, the best WiFi experience on Linux is with Intel chips. You can usually replace the module on a laptop pretty easily.