So, I’d love to start a thread here that can maybe get a sticky later, but I’m having a hard time getting info on how to get the Wifi built into the Raspberry Pi 4 to work.
I’ve tried at least using NetworkManager to get the connection going, and it sees and tries to connect, but it drops out frequently and it won’t keep a stable connection.
Has anyone else got it successfully working on Manjaro ARM Minimal with a Raspberry Pi 4?
Thanks in advance.
I can reinstall, or give any command line info you need.
Ideally I’d like a George R. R. Martin setup where I can use it via command line mostly, then have wifi when I need it to do updates, or Git pushes.
Thanks in advance… again. 
I’m not into ARM specifically, but know a bit about networks.
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width so I have an idea of what kind of hardware you’re dealing with?nmcli. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong…
System:
Kernel: 5.10.25-3-MANJARO-ARM aarch64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=0
snd_bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=0 snd_bcm2835.enable_hdmi=1
video=HDMI-A-1:1280x1024M@60 smsc95xx.macaddr=DC:A6:32:DE:1D:E7
vc_mem.mem_base=0x3ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000
root=PARTUUID=6e694e14-02 rw rootwait console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty3
selinux=0 quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles smsc95xx.turbo_mode=N
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 kgdboc=ttyS0,115200 elevator=noop usbhid.mousepoll=8
snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=0 audit=0
Desktop: N/A dm: N/A Distro: Manjaro ARM
Machine:
Type: ARM Device System: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 details: BCM2835
rev: d03114 serial: <filter>
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 Plus
serial: <filter> charge: Normal status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.64 GiB used: 185.1 MiB (2.4%)
RAM Report: missing: Required program dmidecode not available
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: N/A variant: cortex-a72 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: ARMv8 family: 8 model-id: N/A stepping: 3 microcode: N/A bogomips: 432
Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 600/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1100 2: 1100
3: 1100 4: 1100
Features: asimd cpuid crc32 evtstrm fp
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: bcm2711-vc5 driver: vc4_drm v: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: brcm:gpu
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: brcm:soc
Device-3: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: brcm:soc
Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine?
resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: bcm2835-audio driver: bcm2835_audio bus ID: N/A
chip ID: brcm:bcm2835_audio
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: brcm:soc
Device-3: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: brcm:soc
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.25-3-MANJARO-ARM
Network:
Message: No ARM data found for this feature.
IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: deprecated dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> scope: link
IF-ID-2: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 29.81 GiB used: 1.85 GiB (6.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: EB1QT size: 29.81 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 29.57 GiB size: 29.09 GiB (98.36%) used: 1.80 GiB (6.2%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2 label: ROOT_MNJRO
uuid: 2b97478e-20fc-4e87-820e-708382fe6c5d
ID-2: /boot raw size: 213.6 MiB size: 213.4 MiB (99.89%)
used: 51.8 MiB (24.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk0p1 label: BOOT_MNJRO
uuid: 980A-B3A2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 11.46 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 1-1:2 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 2109:3431
Device-1: 1-1.4:3 info: Logitech USB Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 046d:c52b
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors:
Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends
Info:
Processes: 128 Uptime: 43m Init: systemd v: 248 Compilers: gcc: N/A
Packages: pacman: 203 lib: 46 Shell: fish (login) v: 3.2.1 inxi: 3.1.08
It doesn’t matter, preferrably, I’d just use whatever’s built into Manjaro ARM Minimal for Wifi network connectivity, but if it doesn’t come with anything standard, then I’m willing to install whatever to save a cable.
Minimal edition does not have NetworkManager, but rather has iwd which is the new CLI wifi interface manager from Intel.
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(as that makes both our lives much easier)
No need to do anything right now as I’m an editor here on this site and have fixed it for you already. However, in the future I might not see your post so review my edits by pushing the orange pencil above the post I just fixed. 
@Strit Can’t see anything from a hardware level here… Care to shed a *I’m slow and you’re fast! Sorry!!!
According to the inxi, the wlan0 is detected. He just needs to use the tool provided to connect to wifi.
Recent inxi updates feature full support restored for pi 4, might want to update the inxi there.
Thanks. Just updated it in unstable branch.
Pi 4 had some non trivial changes, one I’d been aware of, the failure to get the wlan, since 3 but had not been able to find a clear solution for, the other was new, significant change in the ethernet device location. This led to total failure to detect the network devices in the Pi 4. These were both finally resolved thanks to a series of user data sets. Then I was, finally, able to snag the bluetooth device as well, which was very tricky, it’s a completely non standard bluetooth type, in a non standard location in the device tree, if the word ‘standard’ can ever be applied to ARM SOC device trees.
ARM saw some pretty significant changes and upgrades over last inxi versions, including much improved support for Android devices, though those changes depend on /sys and /proc not being locked down, which they usually are in current Android phones, though not always.
As usual, these upgrades for the Pi were 100% dependent on someone stepping up and providing the data, repeatedly, until the issues were finally resolved.
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