Macbook Air 2013

brad · 2016-08-29 15:11:32

hobarrera wrote:

After the latest OS update (pacman -Syu), the wireless network has stopped working for me. Has anyone else been having issues? I still haven't pinpointed which package broke stuff, and don't have many leads.

Yes! Have you solved it?

ewaller · 2016-08-29 15:19:39

brad wrote:

hobarrera wrote:
After the latest OS update (pacman -Syu), the wireless network has stopped working for me. Has anyone else been having issues? I still haven't pinpointed which package broke stuff, and don't have many leads.
Yes! Have you solved it?

Network Manager, perhaps? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210868

brad · 2016-08-29 15:28:43

ewaller wrote:

brad wrote:
hobarrera wrote:
After the latest OS update (pacman -Syu), the wireless network has stopped working for me. Has anyone else been having issues? I still haven't pinpointed which package broke stuff, and don't have many leads.
Yes! Have you solved it?
Network Manager, perhaps? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210868

I don't know, I think it's lower level than that, seeing some firmware errors in dmesg:

brcmfmac: brcmf_cfg80211_escan_handler: scan not ready, bsscfgidx=0
brcmfmac: brcmf_fweh_event_worker: event handler failed (69)
brcmfmac: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: set p2p_disc error
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp4s0: link is not ready

hobarrera · 2016-08-29 16:16:23

Sorry, forgot to update here.

I'd started a separate thread, and there's a few workarounds. The issue is in NetworkManager, and downgrading to 1.2.5 works. The next release should have a permanent fix.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216366

brad · 2016-08-29 17:35:14

OK, I downgraded networkmanager and it worked great! Thanks!

hobarrera · 2016-09-17 09:05:22

Bluetooth hasn't been working for me lately (I haven't been able to connect to bluetooth headsets).

I've exhaused all the wiki/forums/etc suggestions related to bluetooth headsets on arch, and was wondering if others are having similar issues - maybe it's a driver issue or something alike?

yassine · 2016-09-28 08:28:40

My bluetooth headset (Phillips SHB4000) pairs and connects fine to my MBA 6,2 on Plasma. Did you check the logs?

svartalf · 2016-10-04 18:48:27

Does anyone else have a problem that with linux notebook is more heated than with a mac os? I have a "powersave" governor enabled for CPU and a few tools from the Power management page and still it's too warm as for me.

Edit: for example, right now with a kde, chromium, skype and nothing else special running, it is a +64.0°C cpu temp. Kinda high, isnt it?

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frank604 · 2016-10-04 18:57:56

That seems very high. My current laptop is on the blanket on my lap sitting at 35°C. I remember the macbook air being similar if not cooler. Can you check if you have any run away process? Even watching netflix through qutebrowser would bring my temps up to the 50's°C .

svartalf · 2016-10-04 20:39:09

Nah, there is nothing, I had measured cpu temp for a few last days, it is between 50 and 65 degrees all the time. Right now I have a chromium with a few pages (no music or video inside), skype, dropbox and konsole opened, also there is no urgent processes (as can be seen in htop/iotop/powertop, load average is ~0.5), so there is no something obvious.

Also I use a XRender as a rendering backend, can it make an additional load onto gpu?

svartalf · 2016-10-05 05:52:26

Small update: I had changed XRender to an OpenGL 3.1 backend, now cpu temp is ~47°. Kinda funny.

Fixed · 2016-10-08 09:05:20

After this week update trashed my system, I updated OSX to new version "Sierra", and trying to set up the dual boot based of rEFInd.

Original installation was based on http://dabase.com/blog/Macbook_Air_Earl … Archlinux/. Now that OSX and rEFInd are upgraded, the same approach does not recognize Arch.

Has anyone had any luck with the same setup?

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jdubs · 2017-01-31 04:10:07

Has anyone found that updating past 4.7 kernel breaks the system? I'm running gnome, and it not only does it take forever for GDM to present a login, but once I'm logged in and my session starts, I'm basically unable to do anything. Terminator crashes. Opening a terminal, I find that I cannot run any systemctl or journalctl commands (it simply hangs), and the wireless doesn't work properly (never find any networks). It's incredibly frustrating, because I end up having to boot from a USB, arch-chroot into my installed system, downgrade the kernel, then boot back into the installed system. I was hoping 4.9 would fix this, as 4.8 had numerous problems, but alas, it has not.

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matsjoyce · 2017-01-31 08:12:22

@jdubs I'm on 4.9.6.1 and most stuff works. My wireless can only connect to 2.4GHz, but its been like that for a while...

jdubs · 2017-01-31 09:09:46

matsjoyce wrote:

@jdubs I'm on 4.9.6.1 and most stuff works. My wireless can only connect to 2.4GHz, but its been like that for a while...

That's so strange. Are you running GNOME? On 4.7, everything works flawlessly, even 802.11ac!

matsjoyce · 2017-01-31 09:12:36

No, I'm on KDE. But the DE shouldn't affect systemd and co. It seems that these MacBooks are rather sensitive to some config settings, as whenever a glitch appears, it only seems to affect some laptops and not others.

hobarrera · 2017-02-02 13:40:14

Ever since the update past 4.7 (about 4 months ago), I haven't had any issues, so it's not something MBA-specific. Probably somehow related to your setup. Can you try some sort of live image and see how well that works to make sure it's that?

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