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Gisbi

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Registered: 2022-11-29

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Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

I have tested every other combination and they both work. Other devices connected to my hotspot work, and I tried with a different iPhone X hotspot on my laptop and it worked, so it's literally just the combination of my phone with the laptop that is not working. I'll explain what happened, but I'm a total newbie on networks so I kindly ask to tell me which logs to post, because I don't know which are needed.

I use iwd for my network connections, and my iPhone hotspot was being unstable, disconnecting every 5 minutes. That's until it stopped working completely. After some troubleshooting I tried switching to NetworkManager, with the same results. I've searched far and wide but no one has this exact problem.

Laptop: Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2020
Arch-g14 kernel

ewaller

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

Please post the output of lspci and of find /etc/systemd

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Gisbi

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

lspci:

00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Device 24: Function 7
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron Technology Inc Device 5410 (rev 01)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c7)
04:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
04:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
04:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
04:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor (rev 01)
04:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
05:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81)
05:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81)

find /etc/systemd:

/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cups.path
/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service
/etc/systemd/system/lock@.service
/etc/systemd/logind.conf.pacnew
/etc/systemd/network
/etc/systemd/network/20-wwan.network
/etc/systemd/network/20-ethernet.network
/etc/systemd/network/20-wlan.network
/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
/etc/systemd/oomd.conf
/etc/systemd/user
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gcr-ssh-agent.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/gnome-keyring-daemon.socket
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
/etc/systemd/homed.conf
/etc/systemd/pstore.conf
/etc/systemd/journal-remote.conf
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.pacnew
/etc/systemd/resolved.conf
/etc/systemd/networkd.conf
/etc/systemd/sleep.conf
/etc/systemd/coredump.conf

Please post the output of lspci and of find /etc/systemd

ewaller

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

So, your WiFi is an Intel AX200 which is pretty well supported.   It looks like you are using networkd rather than NetworkManager. Is that what you had intended?  If so, we man need to look at your /etc/systemd/network/20-wlan.network file.

An unrelated  note:  You should look at your pacman files:

/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.pacnew

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Gisbi

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

there's no 20-wlan.network file in the folder. I also didn't think I was using networkd, so not really.

This is the output of timesyncd.conf.pacnew

[Time]
#NTP=
#FallbackNTP=0.arch.pool.ntp.org 1.arch.pool.ntp.org 2.arch.pool.ntp.org 3.arch.pool.ntp.org
#RootDistanceMaxSec=5
#PollIntervalMinSec=32
#PollIntervalMaxSec=2048
#ConnectionRetrySec=30
#SaveIntervalSec=60

ewaller

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

What I meant was the existence of pacnew files means you need to go find them and merge them with your existing ones keeping the changes you want.  Mostly unrelated to the current problem.

And, I agree.  I misread your find output.  I do not see any service controlling your network.  How are you starting your network?

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Gisbi

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

I have NetworkManager.service and wpa_supplicant.service enabled

What I meant was the existence of pacnew files means you need to go find them and merge them with your existing ones keeping the changes you want.  Mostly unrelated to the current problem.

And, I agree.  I misread your find output.  I do not see any service controlling your network.  How are you starting your network?

ewaller

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

I don't see either of those in the find output you provided.
Regardless, if they are both enabled, that is your problem.  Pick one, and disable the other.

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Gisbi

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Re: Unable to connect to (My) iPhone X hotspot with Zephyrus laptop

I decided to retry with iwd, since I'm more used to it and I know it better. I decided to also install a frontend (iwgtk) and connect from there. For some reason, after connecting through the frontend it worked flawlessly. Thanks for the help, however I can't really tell why it wouldn't work through iwctl