WiFi not working after new graphics card installation

ohgodmanyo · 2021-09-23 02:39:53

I recently installed my brand new Asus GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and I noticed that my Intel Wifi 6 AX200NGW wasn't connecting to wifi. I could see networks properly, but when I tried to connect to them it gave me Error: Device 'network I was trying to connect to' not found. I'm using nmcli btw. Also I didn't have any issues before this. Lspci -k told me that the iwlwifi driver was in use.

seth · 2021-09-23 06:08:24

Please post your system journal (sudo journalctl -b), but what likely happened is that the GPU installation shifted the PCI indices - and now the "predictable" interface name predictably became unpredictable and NM is talking to the wrong NIC.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … face_names

You'll probably just have to delete all existing connections and recreate them.

ohgodmanyo · 2021-09-23 12:32:04

seth wrote:

Please post your system journal (sudo journalctl -b), but what likely happened is that the GPU installation shifted the PCI indices - and now the "predictable" interface name predictably became unpredictable and NM is talking to the wrong NIC.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … face_names
You'll probably just have to delete all existing connections and recreate them.

Ty, sadly the command I ran didn't seem to do anything. It still gives me the device was not found error when I try to connect. Here is the journalctl you asked for tho, hopefully that helps.

https://pastebin.com/raw/0zzbQFzu

seth · 2021-09-23 13:00:47

No idea what "command" you're talking about, but the interface is still renamed

Sep 23 08:11:27 archlinuxpc kernel: iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0 wlp5s0: renamed from wlan0

Also, while stabilizing against systemd doing dumb, it doesn't undo the device name change - you'll still have to reconfigure the connection.
Also apparently nordvpn is in the mix: do you actually have this problem w/o the VPN?

ohgodmanyo · 2021-09-23 14:36:01

seth wrote:

No idea what "command" you're talking about, but the interface is still renamed
Sep 23 08:11:27 archlinuxpc kernel: iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0 wlp5s0: renamed from wlan0
Also, while stabilizing against systemd doing dumb, it doesn't undo the device name change - you'll still have to reconfigure the connection.
Also apparently nordvpn is in the mix: do you actually have this problem w/o the VPN?

The command I ran was the thing you showed in the wiki. Also, I'm really sorry but I don't really understand what you said, can you please tell me the steps to fix my issue like I am five?

seth · 2021-09-23 14:52:08

That "command" masks systemd's NIC renaming udev rule.

can you please tell me the steps to fix my issue like I am five?

1. Finish elementary school.
2. Finish high school
3. Stop nordvpn and see whether that was the problem. If not…
4. Remove the existing connections in nmcli/networkmanager
5. Then scan and try to connect

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WiFi not working after new graphics card installation

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