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GanonMK

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Registered: 2024-11-21

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Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

Hi everyone new in Arch here. I just install everything with Plasma  and everything work fine except by WiFi and Ethernet, i look everywhere i could i cant find the solution.
PS: Laptop is a Acer Aspire ES1-531-P7PX

Is anything i can do? hope you can reply, thanks

Last edited by GanonMK (2024-11-21 18:37:31)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

What are you using to configure/manage your networks?

GanonMK

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Registered: 2024-11-21

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Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

What are you using to configure/manage your networks?

Im using the plasma interface to view every option, like i say im very new on this.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … l_packages

How did you install Arch?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,289

Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

Work through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … n/Wireless -- post the outputs of your findings. Arch is not a very good distribution to start with if you have no previous linux experience.

Is this the laptop: https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/prod … re_ES1-531 ? The available drivers suggest there might be models with a broadcom chip, which could indeed be annoying, in which case you'd likely need to install broadcom-wl: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Broadcom_wireless

But work through the first link above to figure out what's even the case first

Last edited by V1del (2024-11-21 18:34:17)

GanonMK

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Registered: 2024-11-21

Posts: 3

Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

I use the following comnads

sudo pacman -S networkmanager dhcpcd wireless_tools wpa_supplicant

and then

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

Everything works fine now!!!!

V1del

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Re: Wifi and Ethernet not working [SOLVED]

Right, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.