[SOLVED] I'm not able to connect to any wifi anymore

[cinder vessel]

Hi. I installed arch in my laptop and all was working great. After setting it all up and rebooting some times, I removed tlp, installed steam and some games. Now that I have rebooted again, wireless networks are not working, and nmcli only shows ethernet and "lo".

[winter spire]

is your wifi module loaded? run "lsmod" and check if its in there.

Which wifi card?

[cinder vessel]

This is the output of lspci (another person asked me in #tech-general)

[cinder vessel]

let me check it

[cinder vessel]

may it be "asus_wireless"? in that case, it says 0

[winter spire]

do you have Asus wireless card??

[cinder vessel]

I don't know how to check it, I'm using a laptop

[cinder vessel]

I have an asus laptop

[winter spire]

ok

try sudo modprobe asus_wireless

[cinder vessel]

it says nothing

btw, I have reinstalled networkmanager and linux-firmware in case it was related to that but it still doesn't work

[winter spire]

that means the command succeeded: now check lsmod again

[pastel robin]

to be clear, outside of the ISO, was wifi ever working?

[oak venture]

I don't even see a wifi controller here?
Maybe try lsusb, it could be connected via USB instead of pci

[cinder vessel]

it still shows 0

[winter spire]

hmm

[pastel robin]

I thought I was going mad, I can't see asus_wireless anywhere

[cinder vessel]

it was working some reboots again

[winter spire]

try lsusb

Send the output

[cinder vessel]

I don't know how I messed things up...

[pastel robin]

do you have a wifi button on your keyboard (possible as one of the F keys)

[oak venture]

Was that after updating
Your wifi drivers might've been removed from the new kernel version for some reason

[cinder vessel]

it doesn't seem so...

[winter spire]

also there might be a switch on the side of the laptop

[winter spire]

.

[cinder vessel]

ok

[pastel robin]

seems like too many voices so I'll leave this with Jodi and sed, good luck

[winter spire]

ok sure

[cinder vessel]

ignore the line that says samsung electronics, its my phone connected with usb tethering so I can at least use discord

[winter spire]

I can't see an internet card here

Wifi

[cinder vessel]

I can't find one

[winter spire]

Which laptop do you have

exact model

[cinder vessel]

that's what I thought, driver problems, but idk how to get the drivers for this laptop's wifi card

[winter spire]

?

[cinder vessel]

I also can't find one

[winter spire]

hmm ok

[cinder vessel]

ok, thanks!

[cloud spire]

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[winter spire]

?

[cinder vessel]

asus f541uj-gq103t

[winter spire]

after modprobing Asus wireless try connecting again

[cinder vessel]

I can't even list networks with nmcli

I have rebooted again but it still doesn't work

I reinstalled the linux package and it showed this messages, may they be related to my problem?

also, might downloading an older kernel fix my issue?

[cinder vessel]

maybe instal the one of the other linux-firmwares. you can list it by entering sudo pacman -Ss linux-firmware

[cinder vessel]

should I remove the linux-firmware I have installed first and then install a new one?

[hexed fractal]

that's normal

[cinder vessel]

ok

[cinder vessel]

no, you can have both

ok, I'll try to install another one

and then regenerate the initramfs

[cinder vessel]

how can I do that?

[hexed fractal]

mkinitcpio -P

[cinder vessel]

sudo mkinitcpio -P

and then reboot

and check if wifi is working

[hexed fractal]

-P generates it for all kernels, you don't need to specify linux

[cinder vessel]

oh

which one should I install?

[cinder vessel]

i think qcom, marvell, mellanox these are also preinstalled in archcraft

what is archcraft?

ppl who can't rice and want a cool desktop

wow, that's so cool

I'll try to customize my desktop after I get my wifi working

I'm using xfce

alright

[hexed fractal]

what model is your laptop?

[cinder vessel]

asus f541uj-gq103t

[oak venture]

its annoying, I cant find any full manual on it online
so I dont know what wifi adapter it sues

[cinder vessel]

that's the problem

so that means I can't know which drivers to install

[oak venture]

lspci shouldve shown it but it just didnt, its so weird

[winter spire]

I think it uses an Asus wifi adapter from what I can see online, not much info tho

also sorry I was having a shower

[cinder vessel]

Don't worry

This is showing up when booting through a pendrive with arch

Using ip link

[winter spire]

Run lsmod in the live usb

Send output

Or at least check for a wifi module present

looks like wifi works on live usb

[winter spire]

Ok

From what I can see you have atheros wifi card

[cinder vessel]

Sorry, the output of tje command is too long

[winter spire]

Because of ath9k module

[winter spire]

it's ok I've gathered necessary info

[cinder vessel]

Perfect

[winter spire]

try reboot into system

[cinder vessel]

Ok

[winter spire]

And sudo modprobe ath9k then try connecting to WiFi

[cinder vessel]

Interesting message when rebooting...

[winter spire]

hmm

try waiting

Or just force poweroff

[cinder vessel]

I did that

[winter spire]

ok fair enough

[cinder vessel]

It works now...

[winter spire]

interesting

So random

[cinder vessel]

Like
Why

[winter spire]

automatically or with modprobe?

[cinder vessel]

Automatically

[winter spire]

hmm ok

[cinder vessel]

I just rebooted

[winter spire]

Reboot again

And again

[cinder vessel]

or one of the firmwares?

Ok

[winter spire]

And again to test

[cinder vessel]

Ok ok

[cinder vessel]

In the end I didn't install any because I didn't know which one to install

[cinder vessel]

oh

[winter spire]

atheros wifi card firmware should be built into Linux-firmware

[cinder vessel]

2nd time and it's working

[winter spire]

ok try once more

Maybe it was just a coincidence

[cinder vessel]

3rd also works

[winter spire]

Ok

I wonder why it wasn't working that one time

[cinder vessel]

This is a certified programmer moment

[winter spire]

lol

[cinder vessel]

The thing is I did reboot many times

And it wasn't working

Any ways, many thanks for helping me

Really

[winter spire]

no problem 😉

glad your problem is solved

[cinder vessel]

Linux community is so nice

Thanks again :)

[winter spire]

I know they always help with problems (especially this community)

[plain citrus]

... close

[limpid mason]

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