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Orphix

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Registered: 2021-08-07

Posts: 11

Wifi Issues (NetworkManager)

Howdy, I am trying to get wifi working and I have been stuck for about a week now with no luck.

I can randomly get the wifi to work on my laptop by rebooting but it is rare and extremely inconvenient.

I am using NetworkManager and it is not even recognizing the card. My wifi card is a Intel® WiFi 6 AX 200 (2.4GHz/5GHz)

When I run the command lsusb, one of the results is the following:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0029 Intel Corp. AX200 Bluetooth

I am pretty confident this is my wifi card but NetworkManager doesn't seem to recognize it, when I run nmcli I only get the following:

enp61s0: unavailable
......
lo: unmanaged
....

I have installed linux-firmware as well as the driver for this specific wifi card. I truly have no clue where to go from here so

cloverskull

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Registered: 2018-09-30

Posts: 277

Re: Wifi Issues (NetworkManager)

Somewhat of a parachute comment here (sorry am attending virtual meetings so can't focus 100%) but have you looked at using iwd and iwctl? I've had better luck with my intel hardware using iwd since..well, it's created by intel

Orphix

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Registered: 2021-08-07

Posts: 11

Re: Wifi Issues (NetworkManager)

I had this same problem using iwd and iwctl, I switched over to NetworkManager because from what I understand, that is what gnome supports

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,302

Re: Wifi Issues (NetworkManager)

If you don't get an interface node at all (... check ip addr) then there's nothing networkmanager can do. Look at your dmesg on why/whether the iwlwifi module recognises the card and/or crashes for some reason.

Also general things, you want to check lspci rather than lsusb (the device you see in lsusb is explicitly the bluetooth module of the card and that does not in and of itself make a statement over wifi compat) and you might want to elaborate on "as well as the driver for this specific wifi card" as that is normally not something you need to actively do as the driver is included in the kernel.

Also double and triple check that your only started/enabled networking daemon is NetworkManager.

Last edited by V1del (2021-09-17 07:43:14)