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MrMasticater

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Registered: 2019-09-28

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[SOLVED] Wifi Issues

currently each time I login I have no wifi and must run the following:
sudo ip link set wlp2s0 down
sudo wifi-menu
then manually select the correct wifi before its enabled

Does anyone know what is wrong or of a way to set it so that wifi-menu is automatically set on login? It has been wrecking my brain and I somehow managed to brick my laptop by following the docs...
Sorry for being such a scrub

Last edited by MrMasticater (2019-10-03 12:12:56)

Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Issues

First you identify the command in question by its path.

$ which command

Then you feed that path to pacman to [q]uery which package is the [o]wner of that program

$ pacman -Qo (that path from before)

Now you feed the name of that program into the wiki search box and read the article. This works well in this instance, because wifi-menu is part of a package that "is a CLI and profile-based network manager and an Arch project.".

Last edited by Awebb (2019-09-28 14:55:38)

MrMasticater

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Registered: 2019-09-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Issues

Thanks that  pacman -Qo command seems really useful, I will check that out and get back to you

MrMasticater

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Registered: 2019-09-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi Issues

After alot of trial and error I found the cause and solution to my problem.

The problem:
I had a dhcpcd service running automatically which prevented netctl from loading correctly.

The solution:
> # systemctl stop dhcpcd.service
> # systemctl disable dhcpcd.service

Now my netctl profile loads correctly on login