I’m trying to install the latest version of Manjaro KDE on an old Acer Aspire laptop. Our home wifi network shows up as long as I’m running the OS from the USB stick. But after install the network doesn’t show up, only our neighbors’. After reading some posts here, I removed the network driver in hardware configuration and restarted. My network showed up and I could connect to it. But Pamac acted strangely, finding no updates etc. And after starting Firefox, the computer froze after starting a speed check.
I then tried to reinstall the network drivers again, only resulting in a computer freeze.
Please advice!
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System:
Kernel: 5.8.11-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64
root=UUID=b6125a0a-e90e-42eb-8133-8d7d239abd23 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=087297a8-d79b-42d5-a441-40a76c932ce3
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire 5742G v: V1.05 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5742G v: V1.05 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 1.05
date: 08/24/2010
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0% condition: 40.4/47.5 Wh (85%) volts: 9.4/10.8
model: SANYO Li_Ion_4000mA type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 460 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Nehalem family: 6 model-id: 25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 7
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20226
Speed: 1370 MHz min/max: 1199/2534 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1424 2: 1283 3: 1547 4: 1575
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
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: AMD Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 1002:68e0
Device-2: ALi Gateway Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-1.1:3
chip ID: 0402:9665
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: radeon
FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,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 res: 1366x768 hz: 60
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.8.11-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.8 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56
Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aa68
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.11-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: 3000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:1692
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
vendor: Foxconn T77H103.00 Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card driver: wl
v: kernel modules: bcma port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4357
IF: wlp3s0 state: dormant mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 411.48 GiB (44.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545050B9A300 size: 465.76 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: C60F scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Extreme Portable SSD
size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
serial: <filter> rev: 1012 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 457.60 GiB size: 449.41 GiB (98.21%) used: 6.86 GiB (1.5%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 42 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 169 Uptime: 9m Memory: 3.71 GiB used: 636.0 MiB (16.7%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1161 lib: 317
flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: yakuake inxi: 3.1.05