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#1 2014-05-23 00:19:09
- BazzaPK
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No network interfaces showing
Hello everyone. I have been using arch linux for a few months now and loving it, except for one weirdly persistent problem with my wireless. In fact this is the third time it has happened to me and have been unable to fix it. The last two times I simply reinstalled arch after failure of any progress but that is very tedious, timewasting and most important unnecessary, so I am calling upon the arch-linux forum for help.
Basically my problem is this, I have been using wifi-menu to connect to my wireless network since I got arch and everything was going smoothly, no problems at all, until one day I booted up my computer and was unable to find any connections what so ever. At first I thought it was just my router crashing or something but everyone else was able to connect fine so I ran the command iw dev and was surprised to see that there was no output. It had discovered no connections or interfaces at all, not just my personal connection had dissapeared but so had all of my neighbours. I tried plugging in an ethernet cable to my laptop but was unable to receive any connection from that either. It may be helpful to note that in the past the interface for my wireless connections changed at random. It changed from wlp2s0 to wlo1.
Here are somethings that I have tried doing recently to fix the problem.
Although I doubted it would help me as my problem seems to be that I have no wireless interfaces available, I had heard that having multiple packages, e.g dhpcd and netctl, handling your connection at once can cause conflicts. I tried disabling all dhpcd services running because I believe netctl is what wifi-menu uses. Here is the current states of my services from the command systemctl list-unit-files.
UNIT FILE STATE
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount static
org.freedesktop.hostname1.busname static
org.freedesktop.locale1.busname static
org.freedesktop.login1.busname static
org.freedesktop.machine1.busname static
org.freedesktop.timedate1.busname static
dev-hugepages.mount static
dev-mqueue.mount static
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount static
sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount static
sys-kernel-config.mount static
sys-kernel-debug.mount static
tmp.mount static
systemd-ask-password-console.path static
systemd-ask-password-wall.path static
session-c1.scope static
alsa-restore.service static
alsa-state.service static
alsa-store.service static
autovt@.service disabled
avahi-daemon.service disabled
avahi-dnsconfd.service disabled
canberra-system-bootup.service disabled
canberra-system-shutdown-reboot.service disabled
canberra-system-shutdown.service disabled
colord.service static
console-getty.service disabled
console-shell.service disabled
container-getty@.service static
cronie.service disabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service static
dbus-org.freedesktop.locale1.service static
dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service static
dbus-org.freedesktop.machine1.service static
dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service static
dbus.service static
debug-shell.service disabled
dhcpcd.service disabled
dhcpcd@.service disabled
dmeventd.service static
emergency.service static
ftpd.service disabled
getty@.service enabled
git-daemon@.service static
gpm.service disabled
httpd.service disabled
initrd-cleanup.service static
initrd-parse-etc.service static
initrd-switch-root.service static
initrd-udevadm-cleanup-db.service static
ip6tables.service disabled
iptables.service disabled
kmod-static-nodes.service static
krb5-kadmind.service disabled
krb5-kdc.service disabled
krb5-kpropd.service disabled
krb5-kpropd@.service static
lvm-monitoring.service disabled
lvmetad.service static
mdadm.service disabled
mdmon@.service static
mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service static
mysqld.service disabled
netctl-auto@.service disabled
netctl-ifplugd@.service disabled
netctl-sleep.service disabled
netctl.service disabled
netctl@.service static
netctl@HOODS.service enabled
netctl@wlo1HOODS.service enabled
nscd.service disabled
ntop.service disabled
polkit.service static
quotaon.service static
rescue.service static
rlogin@.service static
rrdcached.service disabled
rsh@.service static
serial-getty@.service disabled
systemd-ask-password-console.service static
systemd-ask-password-wall.service static
systemd-backlight@.service static
systemd-binfmt.service static
systemd-fsck-root.service static
systemd-fsck@.service static
systemd-halt.service static
systemd-hibernate.service static
systemd-hostnamed.service static
systemd-hybrid-sleep.service static
systemd-initctl.service static
systemd-journal-flush.service static
systemd-journal-gatewayd.service static
systemd-journald.service static
systemd-kexec.service static
systemd-localed.service static
systemd-logind.service static
systemd-machined.service static
systemd-modules-load.service static
systemd-networkd.service disabled
systemd-nspawn@.service disabled
systemd-poweroff.service static
systemd-quotacheck.service static
systemd-random-seed.service static
systemd-readahead-collect.service disabled
systemd-readahead-done.service static
systemd-readahead-drop.service disabled
systemd-readahead-replay.service disabled
systemd-reboot.service static
systemd-remount-fs.service static
systemd-rfkill@.service static
systemd-shutdownd.service static
systemd-suspend.service static
systemd-sysctl.service static
systemd-timedated.service static
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service static
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service static
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service static
systemd-udev-settle.service static
systemd-udev-trigger.service static
systemd-udevd.service static
systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service static
systemd-update-utmp.service static
systemd-user-sessions.service static
systemd-vconsole-setup.service static
talk.service static
telnet@.service static
tor.service disabled
udisks2.service static
user@.service static
uuidd.service static
wpa_supplicant-nl80211@.service disabled
wpa_supplicant-wired@.service disabled
wpa_supplicant.service disabled
wpa_supplicant@.service disabled
-.slice static
machine.slice static
system.slice static
user.slice static
avahi-daemon.socket disabled
dbus.socket static
dmeventd.socket static
git-daemon.socket disabled
krb5-kpropd.socket disabled
lvmetad.socket static
rlogin.socket disabled
rrdcached.socket disabled
rsh.socket disabled
syslog.socket static
systemd-initctl.socket static
systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket disabled
systemd-journald.socket static
systemd-shutdownd.socket static
systemd-udevd-control.socket static
systemd-udevd-kernel.socket static
talk.socket disabled
telnet.socket disabled
uuidd.socket disabled
basic.target static
bluetooth.target static
busnames.target static
cryptsetup.target static
ctrl-alt-del.target disabled
default.target static
emergency.target static
final.target static
getty.target static
graphical.target static
halt.target disabled
hibernate.target static
hybrid-sleep.target static
initrd-fs.target static
initrd-root-fs.target static
initrd-switch-root.target static
initrd.target static
kexec.target disabled
local-fs-pre.target static
local-fs.target static
multi-user.target static
network-online.target static
network.target static
nss-lookup.target static
nss-user-lookup.target static
paths.target static
poweroff.target disabled
printer.target static
reboot.target disabled
remote-fs-pre.target static
remote-fs.target enabled
rescue.target disabled
rpcbind.target static
shutdown.target static
sigpwr.target static
sleep.target static
slices.target static
smartcard.target static
sockets.target static
sound.target static
suspend.target static
swap.target static
sysinit.target static
system-update.target static
time-sync.target static
timers.target static
umount.target static
systemd-readahead-done.timer static
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer static
206 unit files listed.I also tried disabling netctl@(my profile).service and left netctl@(my other profile).service (I have multiple profiles from when my interface name changed) enabled to make sure there were no conflicts there. Just so you know when my problem occurred neither wireless connections were enabled at the time. As I said I was using wifi-menu to manually connect after start up.
The only thing I have read about solutions similar to my problem is the mention of getting wireless drivers in the arch-wiki but I already have broadcom-wl drivers installed(although I may not have set them up this time over as they were not active meaning I was probably using broadcom brcmsmac/brcmfmac or b43). I thought that possibly my the drivers had somehow been disabled and when I checked with lsmod | grep broadcom nothing came up. I then loaded the module with sudo modprobe broadcom. Now lsmod | grep broadcom returns two results.
broadcom 7334 0
libphy 21639 1 broadcomHere is what I currently get from lsmod | less.
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 4421 1
nls_cp437 5953 1
vfat 10119 1
fat 51960 1 vfat
cfg80211 431038 0
broadcom 7334 0
libphy 21639 1 broadcom
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 36588 5
uvcvideo 72804 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 3304 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 2335 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 29255 1 uvcvideo
videodev 122955 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
btusb 20136 0
bluetooth 342577 2 btusb
coretemp 6390 0
iTCO_wdt 5375 0
hp_wmi 7595 0
sparse_keymap 3146 1 hp_wmi
6lowpan_iphc 11364 1 bluetooth
rfkill 15619 3 cfg80211,hp_wmi,bluetooth
nouveau 1080866 2
snd_hda_codec_idt 43700 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 53211 1 snd_hda_codec_idt
joydev 9631 0
media 12103 2 uvcvideo,videodev
mousedev 10464 0
kvm_intel 132876 0
iTCO_vendor_support 1929 1 iTCO_wdt
hid_generic 1153 0
ir_lirc_codec 4795 0
snd_hda_intel 37704 0
mxm_wmi 1467 1 nouveau
ttm 64361 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 35540 1 nouveau
snd_hda_codec 99871 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
evdev 10629 19
lirc_dev 11391 1 ir_lirc_codec
ir_rc6_decoder 3561 0
ir_nec_decoder 3113 0
ir_sanyo_decoder 2861 0
ir_rc5_decoder 2473 0
ir_sony_decoder 2379 0
ir_mce_kbd_decoder 4822 0
ir_jvc_decoder 2601 0
drm 237667 4 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
r8169 58423 0
hp_accel 16520 0
kvm 404172 1 kvm_intel
rc_rc6_mce 1380 0
mac_hid 3305 0
ene_ir 14142 0
serio_raw 4977 0
lpc_ich 13368 0
jmb38x_ms 11144 0
lis3lv02d 11251 1 hp_accel
rc_core 16731 12 lirc_dev,ir_lirc_codec,ir_rc5_decoder,ir_nec_decoder,ir_sony_decoder,ene_ir,ir_mce_kbd_decoder,ir_jvc_decoder,ir_rc6_decoder,ir_sanyo_decoder,rc_rc6_mce
hwmon 3057 2 coretemp,nouveau
memstick 7504 1 jmb38x_ms
mii 4027 1 r8169
crc32c_intel 14185 0
input_polldev 2818 1 lis3lv02d
i2c_i801 11269 0
i2c_algo_bit 5391 1 nouveau
i2c_core 24824 6 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
i7core_edac 17669 0
edac_core 44694 1 i7core_edac
microcode 16837 0
ac 3334 0
snd_hwdep 6332 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 79815 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 18718 1 snd_pcm
pcspkr 2027 0
snd 59286 8 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
soundcore 5418 1 snd
psmouse 88854 0
shpchp 25393 0
wmi 8251 3 hp_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 11705 1 nouveau
thermal 8556 0
battery 7533 0
button 4477 1 nouveau
acpi_cpufreq 9818 1
processor 24385 1 acpi_cpufreq
ext4 481838 2
crc16 1359 2 ext4,bluetooth
mbcache 6074 1 ext4
jbd2 82704 1 ext4
usb_storage 48231 1
hid_microsoft 3202 0
usbhid 40577 0
hid 91094 3 hid_generic,hid_microsoft,usbhid
sd_mod 36882 5
sr_mod 14930 0
crc_t10dif 1039 1 sd_mod
cdrom 34880 1 sr_mod
crct10dif_common 1372 1 crc_t10dif
atkbd 16806 0
libps2 4187 2 atkbd,psmouse
ahci 23627 2
libahci 21484 1 ahci
libata 172264 2 ahci,libahci
sdhci_pci 12219 0
sdhci 28916 1 sdhci_pci
firewire_ohci 31781 0
ehci_pci 3928 0
led_class 3547 2 sdhci,hp_accel
scsi_mod 134432 4 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod,sr_mod
ehci_hcd 64491 1 ehci_pci
firewire_core 52100 1 firewire_ohci
mmc_core 95529 2 sdhci,sdhci_pci
crc_itu_t 1363 1 firewire_core
usbcore 182430 6 btusb,uvcvideo,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid
usb_common 1648 1 usbcore
i8042 12950 1 libps2
serio 10721 6 serio_raw,atkbd,i8042,psmouseAnd the output from lspci -v for Ethernet controller is:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3659
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
Memory at d4104000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d4100000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Expansion ROM at d4110000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169I find it odd that this is happening to me on arch linux only. My windows 8 is fine (I have a dual boot) and even when I used Manjaro over the course of a couple of months, which is based on arch, it worked fine for me. I was using wicd on Manjaro and am thinking of using that next time for arch. It is also important to remember that it's not only my wireless that's not working, neither is my wired connection.
Any help would be appreciated. I have no idea what to do to fix it and can not find any reports of similar problems happening to anyone else. I really want to get back to linux. My productivity has dropped alot since I have been using Windows 8. If you need me to post the output of any commands just say and I will do so. Once again thank you for any help.
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#2 2014-05-23 01:48:05
- ewaller
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Re: No network interfaces showing
I think you are chasing two different issues. One has to do with predictable names in udev. The other has to do with the kernel not being able to find its loadable modules.
Compare the output of uname -a and pacman -Qi linux
Are the version numbers exactly the same?
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#3 2014-05-23 03:08:13
- BazzaPK
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Yes they are the same. uname -a outputs 3.14.0-5 and pacman -Qi linux outputs 3.14-5.
I had a connection in the past though so should that not mean the kernal loaded the modules fine? Or could an update of the kernal have caused it?
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#4 2014-05-23 04:15:34
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Yes they are the same. uname -a outputs 3.14.0-5 and pacman -Qi linux outputs 3.14-5.
I had a connection in the past though so should that not mean the kernal loaded the modules fine? Or could an update of the kernal have caused it?
No you are good. The problem is that when a kernel is upgraded, the modules for the kernel in memory are deleted and the modules for the new kernel are placed on the disk. The new kernel is then written to the boot sector. Until you reboot, the kernel in memory is outdated and will not be able to use the new modules. After the reboot, the new kernel will use the new modules. There are certain conditions whereby the old kernel in the boot loader does not get updated. After reboot, it will not be able to load any modules. It is a common problem that does not apply here.
So, what is the output of ip link and of lsmod ?
How about iw list ?
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#5 2014-05-23 05:02:38
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Okay, that's helpful to know.
The outputs were
ip link:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:26:9e:f7:c8:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ffiw list gives no output and lsmod I believe gives the same as lsmod | less which I put in the original post.
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#6 2014-05-23 05:14:12
- ewaller
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Are you sure you have a wireless card ? 
But seriously, I just reread the thread, and there is no sign of it. You have a wired internet (enp3s0) which uses the Realtek Semiconductor Ethernet controller at 03:00.0.
For sanity sake, could you post the output of lspci -nn
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#7 2014-05-23 05:32:42
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Haha yea I'm sure.
Yea I know but I could never get it to work. Then again I haven't used wired on arch before.
Sure it's:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI [8086:d132] (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:d138] (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers [8086:d155] (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers [8086:d156] (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers [8086:d157] (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers [8086:d158] (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link [8086:d150] (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers [8086:d151] (rev 11)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:3b48] (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 05)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 [8086:3b50] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b03] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] [10de:0a28] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be2] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)
04:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160 [1131:7160] (rev 03)
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller [197b:2380]
05:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller [197b:2382]
05:00.2 SD Host controller [0805]: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller [197b:2381]
05:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller [197b:2383]
05:00.4 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller [197b:2384]
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers [8086:2c52] (rev 04)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2c81] (rev 04)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2c90] (rev 04)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2c91] (rev 04)
ff:03.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller [8086:2c98] (rev 04)
ff:03.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder [8086:2c99] (rev 04)
ff:03.4 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers [8086:2c9c] (rev 04)
ff:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers [8086:2ca0] (rev 04)
ff:04.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers [8086:2ca1] (rev 04)
ff:04.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers [8086:2ca2] (rev 04)
ff:04.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers [8086:2ca3] (rev 04)
ff:05.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers [8086:2ca8] (rev 04)
ff:05.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers [8086:2ca9] (rev 04)
ff:05.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers [8086:2caa] (rev 04)
ff:05.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers [8086:2cab] (rev 04)Offline
#8 2014-05-23 05:45:51
- ewaller
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Okay. Next let's check the firmware.
What are the output of
pacman -Qs firmware
and
journalctl| grep firmware
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#9 2014-05-23 06:30:12
- BazzaPK
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Re: No network interfaces showing
pacman -Qs firmware:
local/linux-firmware 20140316.dec41bc-1
Firmware files for Linuxand journalctl | grep firmware returns nothing.
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#10 2014-05-23 13:22:38
- ewaller
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Re: No network interfaces showing
I think (I use the b43 driver) you need the b43 firmware for that card.
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1008 %pacman -Qs b43-firmware
local/b43-firmware 5.100.138-2
Firmware for Broadcom B43 wireless networking chips
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1009 %journalctl| grep firmware | tail -1
May 15 18:24:02 odin kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1010 %I am off to $DAYJOB. I'll look further into this when I get a minute or two.
Edit: Nevermind. It looks like that driver does not require the firmware.
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#11 2014-05-23 14:34:16
- ewaller
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Re: No network interfaces showing
I assume you have worked through This wiki page
I checked the b4 web page and your chip set [14e4:4357] has native support in the kernel since 3.1. I would strongly suggest configuring your system to use that kernel. If not, did you follow the instructions about removing ssb on the wiki page I linked?
Edit: BTW, the b43 native driver does require the firmware package 
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#12 2014-05-24 00:55:03
- BazzaPK
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Re: No network interfaces showing
Yes I have been through that page. Tried blacklisting the modules and it did not help me.
I am not sure how to do that. Anyway my current kernal is 3.14.0-5. Should that not work because it is supported by 3.1+? If I do have to do it could you explain how I would go about doing so?
Lastly how would I install the firmware from the package manager without an internet connection? I thought that you could only do that with packages in the aur from a different computer/OS.
Sorry I am a little confused.
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