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Enrico1989

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Registered: 2018-07-05

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[SOLVED] Cosmic doesn't show networks, despite internet WiFi works

(I'm posting here because internet actually works, so I think the error I'm doing is on the DE side rather than on the network side. But feel free to move it, if needed.)

This is a laptop I installed ArchLinux on a few years ago, but I haven't really touched it since then as it's got a battery that doesn't last a minute anymore. I've decided to give it as a present to a friend, so I've connected to a WiFi network by using iwctl, and then proceeded to update the system.

Despite some initial error, eventually the update seemed to succeed.

I did this:

# pacman -S archlinux-keyring
# pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
# pacman -Syu linux-firmware

I run the first because because I expected some signature-relate failures, and then I run the second and third following https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/.

If doing so something might have gone terribly wrong enough on the network side of things, please, tell me what to do to make sure all is fine with it.

Anyway, I've installed the cosmic suite + cosmic-greeter, enabled the service for the latter, in accordance to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC, and rebooted the system.

When logging in again, internet keeps working, but I don't see it via the GUI of Cosmic, as you can see from the screenshot below:

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Cosmic doesn't show networks, despite internet WiFi works

Most of these integrations rely on networkmanager to broker the network state, so you'll need to disable iwd and enable networkmanager and in case you want networkmanager to use iwd internally see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … Fi_backend

Enrico1989

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Re: [SOLVED] Cosmic doesn't show networks, despite internet WiFi works

Most of these integrations rely on networkmanager to broker the network state, so you'll need to disable iwd and enable networkmanager

I've done

# systemctl disable iwd.service
# systemctl stop iwd.service
# systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
# systemctl start NetworkManager.service

and internet works, thanks.

and in case you want networkmanager to use iwd internally see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … Fi_backend

Is there any reason why I'd want to do so?

The

Consider existing issues before switching to iwd.

from the link you provided sounds more like a dissuasive warning.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Cosmic doesn't show networks, despite internet WiFi works

Is there any reason why I'd want to do so?

Because you used iwd before - wpa_supplicant seems to have problems w/ some WPA3/WPA2 combos - idk how comparable the iwd integration in NM /is/ but it typically works "good enough".

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Enrico1989

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Re: [SOLVED] Cosmic doesn't show networks, despite internet WiFi works

Is there any reason why I'd want to do so?

Because you used iwd before

Well, the reason why I use iwd on my laptop is that I wanted to get my system on the internet just the way the live iso magically does so.