Enable WiFi not working

[veera]

I have installed Manjaro Linux version - “manjaro-kde-21.0.7-210614-linux510” recently in my Lenovo laptop. All are works good Except Wifi. I am unable to enable the wifi. the checkbox is non clickable.

I have tried some methods but not working…

Installed headers but not sure what should be added XXXX - “pamac build XXXX-dkms-git”

cmd: uname -a
Linux vsnu 5.10.42-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 3 14:37:11 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169

Can someone help me on this?

[jrichard326]

It would help if you would provide additional information (full inxi output) about your system, even though you might not think that it is necessary. Is it possible that there is a physical switch on that laptop that turns wifi on and off? Can you post the results of:
rfkill list
Please read:

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[veera]

Thanks for your quick reply. There is no physical switch to turn on the Wi Fi. Added inxi and rfkill list below

ystem:
  Kernel: 5.10.42-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=880261d6-1f2d-4026-bfa1-f3005d0d0e28 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=3bed07ec-9fe7-4495-8e51-d2bf9cfc9e31 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 
  dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20042 v: Lenovo G560 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: 29CN41WW(V2.18) 
  date: 02/02/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 11.3 Wh (39.8%) condition: 28.4/47.5 Wh (59.7%) 
  volts: 10.4 min: 11.1 model: LG PABAS024 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.87 GiB used: 1.41 GiB (75.5%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3 M 380 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7 cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 20225 
  Speed: 1907 MHz min/max: 933/2533 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1907 2: 1855 
  3: 1531 4: 1647 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb 
  ibrs lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pcid pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd sse 
  sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc vme xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds 
  status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218M [GeForce 310M] vendor: Lenovo driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a70 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Acer Lenovo EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1.3:3 
  chip-ID: 5986:0148 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
  display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 395mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.1.2 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.42-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 5000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:002b 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: enp0s29u1u4 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Android type: USB driver: rndis_host v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 2-1.4:5 chip-ID: 05c6:aaff class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter> 
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter 
Logical:
  Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 25.71 GiB (5.5%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS 
  size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: LVM1 scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: PLDS model: DVD-RW DS8A8SH rev: KL31 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 100 GiB size: 97.87 GiB (97.87%) used: 9.98 GiB (10.2%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: 880261d6-1f2d-4026-bfa1-f3005d0d0e28 
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 1022 MiB (99.80%) used: 60 MiB (5.9%) 
  fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL uuid: 7AFC-0529 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 356.74 GiB size: 350.07 GiB (98.13%) 
  used: 14.84 GiB (4.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 03dae9a9-5597-4ad3-9e20-984469e7efe0 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 854.3 MiB (10.4%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: 3bed07ec-9fe7-4495-8e51-d2bf9cfc9e31 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 8 MiB fs: <superuser required> label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-1.3:3 info: Acer Lenovo EasyCamera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 5986:0148 
  class-ID: 0e02 
  Device-2: 2-1.4:5 info: Qualcomm Android type: Bluetooth,CDC-Data 
  driver: rndis_host interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 05c6:aaff class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 2-1.6:4 info: Realtek USB 2.0 multicard reader type: Mass Storage 
  driver: ums-realtek interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 0bda:0158 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 61.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 205 Uptime: 1h 09m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1215 pacman: 1208 lib: 324 
  flatpak: 0 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04 

RFKILL LIST

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

[moson]

@veera

physical switch to turn on the Wi Fi

Are you sure about that? Because:

@veera

Hard blocked: yes

[veera]

You are correct. that was my mistake. Sorry… … I did not noticed. I am able to connect Wi Fi now.

Thank you so much @moson and @jrichard326