[SOLVED] Network Manager not detecting my WiFi device. | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:00 PM

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New to arch. Just finished installing a few packages and on my first reboot I'm suddenly not connected to the Internet anymore and Network Manager only seems to be connected to loopback and the Ethernet. Cheers.

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:05 PM

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Sounds like you've already enabled NetworkManager using systemctl (if you haven't, do do that, with the --now flag, or reboot instead afterwards)do you have a button on your keyboard for turning on and off your wifi device?

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:06 PM

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I don't believe I do have that button

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Here's the keyboard

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bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:16 PM

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Have you tried toggling aeroplane mode?

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:30 PM

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Yes

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I've opened up nmtui and added the connection but when I try to activate I get an error

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bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:37 PM

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other thing I wonder is if your wifi card needs a specific driver, perhaps one in the aur, could be worth googling

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:39 PM

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Hmm maybe but I was able to connect to WiFi while I was installing within the iso

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:50 PM

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yeah but the iso comes with bonus goodies

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:53 PM

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Intel wifi 6 ax201 is my wifi card

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:56 PM

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have you installed the intel microcode and have you installed linux-firmware?

random halo May 18, 2023, 1:58 PM

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Yes to the firmware. No to microcode. That was after my reboot so no internet

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 1:59 PM

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could try chrooting and adding microcode, not sure if it might help, this person had your issue in 21, and compiled the kernel themselves making a single change:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=268094

random halo May 18, 2023, 2:05 PM

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Hmmm that directory does not exist for me

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Directory 'drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie' does not exist

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 2:12 PM

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it's a directory in the kernel files pre complie

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the microcode didn't help at all?

random halo May 18, 2023, 2:32 PM

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Unfortunately no

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 2:35 PM

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does the device show in lspci

random halo May 18, 2023, 2:36 PM

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Yes

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Sorry for bothering you btw I noticed that you're pretty much the only one offering support for literally everyone

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 2:47 PM

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sorry I don't know wifi stuff that much, also struggling to work out how to do something I want to do XD

random halo May 18, 2023, 2:49 PM

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Lol no it's alright I'm trudging through the forums as well and man everything was so straightforward till now lmao

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 2:56 PM

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lspci -k

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what does that say for the wifi card?

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless

Wireless

random halo May 18, 2023, 3:29 PM

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Sorry I'm going to go to bed for now. I'll come back to this

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:14 PM

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Ahhh looks like the driver isn't there

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 4:15 PM

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random halo Ahhh looks like the driver isn't there

wonder if it's in the aur?

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:15 PM

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How would I find out

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 4:19 PM

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https://aur.archlinux.org

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:20 PM

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Oh there we go

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 4:23 PM

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sorry, edited it to .org 😛

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thought I got there in time, my bad

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:28 PM

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Doesn't seem to have for my particular card

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There is one for AX101 but that's an entire generation behind

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 4:35 PM

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random halo There is one for AX101 but that's an entire generation behind

could see if it happens to work?

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:36 PM

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Hmm why not. How would I get it without an Internet connection?

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 4:36 PM

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random halo Hmm why not. How would I get it without an Internet connection?

you could download it on the iso and then boot up again and make pkg as a regular user

random halo May 18, 2023, 4:44 PM

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It's weird though because I can see the iwlwifi right there but it doesn't say kernel driver in use

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Like isn't iwlwifi the driver?

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It's just not running for some reason

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:04 PM

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Done

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Iwlwifi 491520 0
cfg80211 1138688 1 iwlwifi

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!!!

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Ohhh please tell me its an easy fix

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6.1.29-1-lts

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How do I do that?

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:10 PM

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They already have the firmware installed, didn’t realise they were on the lts kernel!

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:11 PM

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Ahhh man I'm gonna have to boot the iso to install all that

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:11 PM

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random halo Ahhh man I'm gonna have to boot the iso to install all that

Welcome to arch

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Oh, interesting! I’d ask how come but it’s not my thread XD

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:13 PM

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So I want to remove the package?

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Okay. Imma load the iso and reinstall the firmware

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:14 PM

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You installed linux package yes?

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Oh you’re not on the iso yet, mis read that

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Yeah you could just do it all from chroot

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Remember to mount your root and your boot

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:15 PM

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Oh dammit yeah chroot

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Had trouble mounting that

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:16 PM

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random halo Had trouble mounting that

Post what the problem is?

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:17 PM

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I'll try again

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Here we go

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It's cus I encrypted the partition innit

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:22 PM

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Luks is all I know, I don’t fuck with encryption, I don’t need it, it just complicated things

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If I was worried about my baking recipes getting hacked then sure, but they’re open source

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:23 PM

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bronze jewel If I was worried about my baking recipes getting hacked then sure, but they’re o...

I cook some good Thai food. Those recipes are precious to me.

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:26 PM

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.aw luks

sharp mossBOT May 18, 2023, 5:26 PM

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Arch Wiki: LUKS

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LUKS

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:29 PM

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Cool. Do I want chroot in lv_root or lv_home

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So far so good

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Okay chroot is mounted

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You want me to mount boot as well?

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I'm guessing that's the same. boot /mount

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:48 PM

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@kind fern okay will do. Wait bootpartion?

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:49 PM

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random halo <@456226577798135808> okay will do. Wait bootpartion?

where your bootloader is installed

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:49 PM

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random halo

in this case nvme0n1p1

random halo May 18, 2023, 5:50 PM

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There we go @kind fern boot is... moont

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Now what

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That's mounted

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 5:59 PM

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to be crystal clea the command is arch-chroot /mnt assuming you're not btrfs, and instead I presume you're ext4

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don't think it would've mounted if you were btrfs though

devout emberBOT May 18, 2023, 6:00 PM

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bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 6:00 PM

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yes, I was thinking of mounting commands though

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you'd want mount -o subvol=@ /dev/root if it was btrfs

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my compression is lzo

random halo May 18, 2023, 6:03 PM

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arch-chroot /mount is done

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Not linux-lts?

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Oke doki

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Done

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No such file or directory

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EFI initramfs-linux-fallback.img initramfs-linux.img vmlinuz-linux

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Lenovo grub_uefi

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Problem?

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Installation finished no error

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Done

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Reboot into iso or arch?

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Hmm I put in the reboot command and it says Running in chroot, ignoring request

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Ah gotcha. Cheers

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Okay I'm in my arch

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Ohhhhhh!

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I think that's done it!

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Oh you definitely were. Thank you so much!

devout emberBOT May 18, 2023, 6:17 PM

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random halo May 18, 2023, 6:18 PM

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Both of you. Thank you @bronze jewel

devout emberBOT May 18, 2023, 6:18 PM

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You're thanking too much ó_ò

random halo May 18, 2023, 6:18 PM

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Will do!

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[SOLVED] Network Manager not detecting my WiFi device.

bronze jewel May 18, 2023, 7:02 PM

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lol, just fully changed their bootloader 😛

#[SOLVED] Network Manager not detecting my WiFi device.