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cervyesterday

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[SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Hi guys,
Couple of problems here.
I've done an upgrade yesterday and today on startup it have stucked during boot at "finished TLP system startup/shutdown"
So I've logged in on tty2 to post the output of journalctl and ask for help but unfortunately iwctl gives me an 'operation failed' message.
What can i do?

I have the latest lts kernel but don't know how to get further informations

Last edited by cervyesterday (2023-05-17 16:50:41)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Compare "uname -a" and "pacman -Qs linux"
Chances are that you're booting an older kernel because you forgot to mount the /boot partition during the update.
In that case modules outside the initramfs won't be available, plausibly breaking your GUI and network.
(See "lspci -k" and "ip a" for whether a kernel module is assigned to the wifi device and a wifi nic is available)

If that's not the case, post the output of "ip a" and the actual iwctl I/O - you can link a photo of your screen if need be.

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cervyesterday

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Thanks for the help!
I think i did not understand what you meant with "compare", they a
Have different outputs (?)

Btw, how should i upload pics from my phone?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

The version numbers are what matters.
You can upload images to eg. imgur or whatever service you like. Then post the link here (don't embed them)

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cervyesterday

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Oh, yes it was easy to understand, sorry
Version numbers are the same: 6.28.1-1 lts
If everything was fine that's the link to the imgs:

https://imgur.com/a/rL2BA2O

I've both lts and non- lts kernel versions installed (currently on the lts one), could it be the problem in some way?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

The nics show up on the forcedeth and wl modules, but you lack a kernel module for the GF9400M - nouveau is listed but not loaded, probably blacklisted.
But there's no nvidia module and you'll require https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-340xx-dkms if you don't want to use novueau.

There's no display of the "iwctl gives me an 'operation failed' message"

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cervyesterday

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Yes sorry, I forgot the iwctl pic.
This is the link:
https://imgur.com/a/LSzsPzL

Actually i've installed nvidia-340xx-dkms and used to have that module loaded, so i need to manually load that and remove nouveau?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

The dkms rebuild might have failed?

dkms status

and make sure the module is there for the current kernel.
Then try to explicitly load it

modprobe -v nvidia

Can you use the wired connection or https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering ?

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cervyesterday

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

That's the outputs:

https://imgur.com/a/hcSGZiW

Idk if "nvidia/340.108" has to be intended as "dkms" even without the dkms tag explicitated, but it seems that it had been removed...

I've found the right cable for tethering just couple of minutes ago, i'll try right now

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

The nvidia dkms driver is added, but not installed.
Check the dkms build log whether it failed, in doubt rebuild the module.

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cervyesterday

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Re: [SOLVED]Wifi connection via CLI and not booting

Ok, it seems something went wrong during the last update, thanks to the tethering i've re-updated the system and everything has fixed

Thanks a lot for your help, i'll mark as solved