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tomsargeaunt

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Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

Hi Everyone.

During installation, I'm having a hard time getting wireless working on a new machine. There is definitely linux support for the hardware because it's working fine with a live ubuntu usb. I'm using the latest arch ISO.

$ lspci -k
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3165 (rev 81)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless AC 3165
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi

I have run

$ ip link set wlp3s0 up

and verified that it is up. But when I try to connect, I get:

$ wifi-menu
Scanning for networks... Could not read interface p2p-dev-wlp3s0 flags: No such device

It is able to find networks, but connecting fails.

$ dmesg | grep firmware
[   11.992205] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 21.302800.0 op_mode iwlmvm

the intel page says 3165 its supported by iwlwifi and as its working out the box on ubuntu I'm at a bit of a loss.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks.

Last edited by tomsargeaunt (2016-07-04 19:52:41)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

wifi-menu should be run as root.

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tomsargeaunt

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Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

Thanks, but as I'm logged in as root automatically by the live arch usb.

tomsargeaunt

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Registered: 2014-02-04

Posts: 24

Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

I've just tried with the september 2015 iso release and the wifi works out of the box. Any ideas why its broken in the latest release?

Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

What's the output of the following (the last two run as root)

ip link
journalctl -xe
dmesg
iw dev wlp3s0 scan | grep SSID
iw dev p2p-dev-wlp3s0 scan | grep SSID

?

I am a little confused that you set wlp3s0 up, but wifi-menu looks for p2p-dev-wlp3s0...

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

Thanks, but as I'm logged in as root automatically by the live arch usb.

$ wifi-menu

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Texbrew

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From: The Lone Star State

Registered: 2016-02-09

Posts: 580

Re: Wifi problem - Intel Wireless 3165

@tomssargaunt, the commands you listed in your original post are different from the ones I used to establish wifi connectivity. Take a look at my my post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214495 then use the output of

iw dev

for the input of

wifi-menu -o <device>

In my case, <device> was wls1. Yours may be named something else. If those two commands enable you to ping a webserver, you should be able to proceed with your Arch Linux install. Don't forget to install wifi packages before you reboot.

Please let us know if this solves your wifi connection.

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