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CyberCypress

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Registered: 2021-10-05

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[SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless not working

Hello, I have been trying to install Arch on a Dell Latitude 3570 with a Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 wireless card.  I have successfully installed the OS, but when I boot from the disk I cannot connect to wifi using iwd.  When I boot into the live environment, mount my root partition, and chroot in I can connect to wireless just fine using iwd.  I am unsure why it does not work when booting off the disk.  I have linux-firmware installed, and lspci -k output is below.  I am unsure of what the hang up here is, does anyone know what is causing this?  Thank you for your time!

Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1802 802.11abgn Adapter
    Kernel driver in use: ath9k
    Kernel modules: ath9k

Last edited by CyberCypress (2021-10-08 04:58:48)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless not working

What does "not work" mean exactly? Is the device not visible/is the device visible but establishing the connection fails?

After an attempt to connect, post a full journal

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

CyberCypress

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Registered: 2021-10-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless not working

Sorry, I should have been more detailed.  When I run iwd I am able to scan and see the network, and the station connect command seemingly works with no error.  I would then quit iwd and try to ping a website (e.g. ping -c 5 archlinux.org) it would give me an error message.  I just went to try and reproduce it, but in the interim time since I last posted I installed a desktop environment and now when I try and connect to the network to iwd it simply says "operation failed." 

Pastebin output of sudo journalctl -b is here
https://pastebin.com/PgPU8eKX

Thank you for trying to help me!

Ferdinand

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Registered: 2020-01-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless not working

It seems you're using NetworkManager?
I think that conflicts with iwd, so try to stop the iwd.service, and connect with nmtui or another front-end.

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CyberCypress

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Registered: 2021-10-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless not working

It seems you're using NetworkManager?
I think that conflicts with iwd, so try to stop the iwd.service, and connect with nmtui or another front-end.

This is what was wrong!  I followed these steps and this worked.  Thank you so much for your help, I will do a better job of reading the documentation and understanding the tools I am using from now on!