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John Egbert

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Registered: 2022-12-08

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[Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

So: last time i was updating, made a mistake, vmlinuz-linux was deleted.

I've searched a bit, and all that I need to do is go live, update using `pacman` and it'll be fine-- but when i try to connect to wifi iwctl says "operation failed", searched a bit and i'm stuck over here. Wtd?

Sorry for the trouble.

After resting for the lunch a little bit of the noon, i solved the problem by tethering my phone's wifi into the PC by an USB cable.
I got a another can of worms to solve, i'll make say the problem when i rest a bit-- at least i can already log in as ROOT

Last edited by John Egbert (2024-01-08 21:25:07)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

What's your hardware and how did you originally establish the connection when first installing? IWD can actually not work if you're using some older realtek based chips or broadcom-wl or so, in which case you want to try nmtui or so instead to use NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant.

In general, work through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … n/Wireless

John Egbert

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

> originally establish the connection when first installing?

Through iwctl

My PC is a Dell Inspiron 15 30k series

I will see what i can do tmw, thank you

Last edited by John Egbert (2024-01-08 13:48:35)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

My PC is from 2015 and uses Intel

Q: what kind of car do you have
A: a red one

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:
Can you connect to the network by other means?

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Otherwise

sudo journalctl -b > /tmp/journal.txt

and usb-walk that file to a system with network access an upload it.

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John Egbert

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

There is a "systemd-networkd-wait-online.service" that failed to load.

The output when I do

systemctl status systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

just says that a timout ocurred while wainting for network connectivity.

And the

journalctl -xeu systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

says the same

About the

journalctl -b

: it's saying that it

Failed to start Refresh Pacman mirrorlist with reflector

Last edited by John Egbert (2024-01-08 13:47:40)

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

Do you have an ethernet connection available? If not all of this is entirely expected and not surprising.

systemd-networkd has no relation at the point where iwd would be failing to show you an AP. You need to attempt to establish a connection, then run the journal command and then post the entirety of the text you receive from running a command seth posts

John Egbert

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

Ok

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Excuse me: "iwd: operation failed"

If this is [SOLVED] please mention what ended up being the fix, and use [SOLVED] rather than [Closed] as the latter would indicate a moderator action.