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folatt

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Registered: 2015-08-01

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[solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

Continuing from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=233254,

I have now bought a new mother board, an ASRock J4105-ITX.

So just like the ASRock J4205-ITX, the card is found, yet it does nothing.

[folatt@MyComputer ~]$ inxi -N
Network:   Card-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169

[folatt@MyComputer ~]$ rfkill
ID TYPE      DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 bluetooth hci0   unblocked unblocked
 1 wlan      phy0   unblocked unblocked

[folatt@MyComputer ~]$ dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[   10.865455] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   10.885559] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 36.e91976c0.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[   11.063625] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265, REV=0x230
[   11.121856] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: base HW address: 74:e5:f9:98:29:ca
[   11.202712] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0

ip addr
https://dpaste.de/eL6h

journalctl
https://dpaste.de/PvAC

systemctl list-units | grep -iE '(net|dhcp|wpa|conn|wicd)'
https://dpaste.de/AUVM

wpa_supplicant connection attempt
https://dpaste.de/H1Vw
Ctrl + C
https://dpaste.de/OV9E

modinfo iwlwifi
https://dpaste.de/jv9N

Last edited by folatt (2019-12-27 21:54:08)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

It does a lot of things. NM uses it to scan the network periodically (and constantly changes its MAC) what impedes your wpa_supplicant approach. Also the latter apparently scans for an empty SSID?

You've to stop the NM service before attempting manual connections and provide the latter with proper config data.

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tbg

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Registered: 2017-06-22

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Re: [solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

I see in your logs NM is attempting to connect through your NIC. Perhaps remove your LAN cable before you start your computer. Maybe even try disabling your NIC in you BIOS temporarily. Also, have you tried disabling MAC address randomization in NM. Have you checked if there is a BIOS update for your MOBO.

folatt

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Registered: 2015-08-01

Posts: 96

Re: [solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

Maybe even try disabling your NIC in you BIOS temporarily

I'm not sure how. My attempt in BIOS to disable "Onboard LAN" resulted in both wired as well as wireless being lost.

Also, have you tried disabling MAC address randomization in NM.

It's now disabled.

Have you checked if there is a BIOS update for your MOBO.

There's a newer version, but the description says that it will update
the TXE and 4K video display, not the wi-fi.

..Also the latter apparently scans for an empty SSID?

I don't get that either.

You've to stop the NM service before attempting manual connections and provide the latter..

Temporarily deinstalled it and these are the results:

https://dpaste.de/E259

Since it stops there, I press Ctrl + C:

https://dpaste.de/d0cd

What is proper config data?

Last edited by folatt (2018-07-19 06:38:34)

seth

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Re: [solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

nl80211: Scan probed for SSID ''

It's probing for an empty SSID…

Read up https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant

wpa_supplicant -d -i wlp2s0 -c<(wpa_passphrase "[SSID]" "[password]")

is not necessarily going to work (depending on the actual passphrase and apparently you were not using the proper SSID token either?
Please be very careful when editing input/output, eg. there's absolutely no reason to obfuscate the SSID or BSSID (your AP yells it into the world anyway) and random edits make it impossible to look out for errors.
The one thing you've got to conceil is your passphrase. If your SSID is something embarrassing, you better just change it.

The latest pastes suggest that wpa_supplicant succesfully associated to some AP, so actually everything works as expected after stopping NM.

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folatt

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Re: [solved] Wi-fi not working; ASRock J4105-ITX + Intel AC Dual Band 8265

Solved.
M.2 slot for WiFi is Intel® CNVi Only