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prayner96

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Registered: 2022-03-06

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[SOLVED] Switching wireless wifi router with netctl

Hi all, first post here.

Hardware: lenovo ideapad slim i7.

I've only used netctl once during installation and that was to connect to my previous home wifi router. It was working fine until I recently moved country and tried connecting to the new wireless wifi router.

Pinging websites outputs Temporary failure in name resolution.

I figured that I just had to type sudo wifi-menu, but that results in:

nl80211: kernel reports: Attribute failed policy validation Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3: -22 (Invalid argument) nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3 No networks found

journalctl -xe outputs netctl@wlp0s20f3profile.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

Am I missing something obvious? Do I need to delete my original profile?

Last edited by prayner96 (2022-03-07 14:40:53)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Switching wireless wifi router with netctl

Pinging websites outputs Temporary failure in name resolution.

DNS? Did you previously configure a DNS server from your former ISP?

nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface

Sounds like https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … face_names

Please post the outputs of

netctl list
ip a
ip r
ping -c1 8.8.8.8
dig @8.8.8.8 google.com
stat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

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prayner96

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Registered: 2022-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Switching wireless wifi router with netctl

Hi Seth,

Thanks for the reply. I used `rfkill unblock all` and that worked.

If the issue starts again after a reboot, I will provide those outputs!

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Switching wireless wifi router with netctl

Otherwise please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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