How to switch between USB wifi adapter & internal wifi adapter in laptop?

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Hello everyone ,
I’ve connected an external usb wifi adapter to my manjaro-kde laptop.
but it doesn’t show in network-manager !
it worked fine in Ubuntu & Kubuntu !

Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 is the internal wifi adapter
ZyDAS ZD1211B is the external adapter

lsusb                                                 

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:3005 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR3011 Bluetooth

inxi -n                                         

           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlp9s0 state: up mac: 38:59:f9:96:80:b3 
           Device-3: ZyDAS ZD1211B 802.11g type: USB driver: zd1211rw 
           IF: wlp0s29u1u2 state: down mac: aa:8a:aa:87:f2:10

I tried this …

sudo ip link set wlp0s29u1u2 up                                         
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

then …

sudo modprobe wlp0s29u1u2                                  
modprobe: FATAL: Module wlp0s29u1u2 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.61-1-MANJARO

So what shall i do ?

Thanks in advance.

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That’s the Atheros interface, not a kernel module. The ZyDAS kernel module is zd1211rw and is already loaded:

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Thanks , But what should i do ?

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zd1211rw

zd1211rw is a driver for the ZyDAS ZD1211 802.11b/g USB WLAN chipset, and it is included in recent versions of the Linux kernel. See [15] for a list of supported devices. You only need to install the firmware for the device, provided by the zd1211-firmwareAUR package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Other_drivers/devices

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

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You are a genius :smiley: , Thanks a million

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