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speedyx

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Registered: 2008-09-05

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[SOLVED] iwlwifi doesn't give me the wifi device

I have recently reinstalled Archlinux on my laptop.
Despite having wifi internet without any issue while on the live usb, I had problems once back on the installed system.

NetworkManager doesn't show any network and ip link doesn't show any wifi device.
I searched for a newer Linux for iwlwifi from the Intel website and copied the iwlwifi*ucode to /lib/firmware, but nothing happened, even after a reboot.
I tried the following.

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi && sudo modprobe iwlwifi

and it works, The only problem is that it is not a permanent solution. It's only a temporary workaround that I need to execute after every reboot.
Do you have any suggestion?

Here the inxi -Nxxx result:

Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bc class-ID: 0200
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 52:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280

Last edited by speedyx (2024-09-10 19:47:54)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] iwlwifi doesn't give me the wifi device

Any messages in dmesg why the initial "auto-load" would fail? Do you perhaps have iwlwifi blacklisted for some reason?

modprobe -c | grep iwlwifi

depending on what exactly fails, maybe a fix would be to add it to the initramfs so it's loaded early

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] iwlwifi doesn't give me the wifi device

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297585

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speedyx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 108

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Re: [SOLVED] iwlwifi doesn't give me the wifi device

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297585

Thank you very much! I had the net hook in mkinitcpio in the hope of having better NFS support in KDE. But I can remove it without problems, and the Wi-Fi works smoothly without supplemental intervention.

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