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#1 2019-10-16 09:48:30

yaalu
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Registered: 2019-10-16
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Strange wireless behavior

Greetings!

The problem that made me get out of the read-only mode is following: while installing the distro through my home wifi using wifi-menu (netctl) everything works like a charm.

But as soon as I boot into the installed system I can't connect to that very access point. It's just not visible to my laptop while all other networks is on the list.

Chroot back - and it's there!

I've trided wicd, netctl, networkmanager (preliminarily disabling and unistalling prevous network maneger) all with same result: it shows to me all available access points around exept mine.

Please contribute.

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#2 2019-10-16 09:50:43

Slithery
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Re: Strange wireless behavior

Did you install the linux-firmware package during installation?


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#3 2019-10-16 09:51:11

yaalu
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Registered: 2019-10-16
Posts: 2

Re: Strange wireless behavior

yes

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#4 2019-10-24 14:41:45

xse
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Registered: 2019-01-08
Posts: 36

Re: Strange wireless behavior

Hey,

I've experienced this multiple times with a specific dongle on several different systems and architectures. The first wifi connection i make works great and as soon as i reboot i'll never get wifi ever again.
In my case it's driver related, the default rtl8xxxu driver doesn't do great with my dongle.

I fix it by blacklisting rtl8xxxu and installing rtl8192eu, see https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver

I have a specific PKGBUILD i use to fix this, which takes care of installing everything with dkms and setup the automatic thingy to rebuild it each time it's needed when the kernel updates: https://github.com/xse/rtl8192eu-dkms-git

So i'd suspect a similar issue in your case, maybe we can get more informations about your wifi hardware and the driver used.

Have a good day!

Last edited by xse (2019-10-24 14:45:50)


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