Manjaro cant see wifi

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Hi,

I have recently installed Manjaro in a Mini PC ACE Magician AMR5 in dual booting with windows 11. The problem is that it does not detect wifi. The wifi works just fine in windows 11.

I tried many solutions found in the forum but none of them works.

I am running on the kernel : 6.1.49-1-MANJARO (linux61)

Here is some outputs that might be useful :

inxi -Naxz                                                       ✔ 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  Device-2: Realtek driver: N/A modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280

 rfkill list                                                      ✔ 
0: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no


nmcli dev status                                                 ✔ 
DEVICE      TYPE      STATE                   CONNECTION         
enp4s0f3u2  ethernet  connected               Wired connection 2 
lo          loopback  connected (externally)  lo                 
enp1s0      ethernet  unavailable             --
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Hi @ayoubana, and welcome!

This :point_up: might be why. There seems to be a driver missing. According to this website:

The device is supported by kernel versions 6.2 and newer according to the LKDDb:

So it would seem your network adapter is quite new.

But the driver is in the AUR:

$ pamac search 8852
rtw89-dkms-git  1:r327.e834edf-2                                                                                                                                                                                                                          AUR
Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device
[...]

Since it’s from the AUR, you need to make sure you have all the required packages installed. To make sure they are, run the following:

pamac install base-devel $(pamac list --installed --quiet | grep "^linux" | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-headers"}' ORS=' ')

If that was successful, you can build the drivers:

pamac build rtw89-dkms-git

If successful, reboot and test.

If it worked, feel free to heap on the praise. If, however, it didn’t, well, then I’m innocent and not here…

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Perfect, it is working now. Thanks a lot!

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update: Now when I suspend and log in again, it does not read the available networks !? I have to reboot to be able to connect to an available wifi.

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After wakeup, when it’s not working, what’s the output of:

lsmod | grep --ignore-case 88
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Also when I work with wifi for ~ 10 min, samething happens…

 lsmod | grep --ignore-case 88                           PIPE|2|1 ✘ 
rtw_8852be             16384  0
rtw_8852b             352256  1 rtw_8852be
rtw89pci               81920  1 rtw_8852be
rtw89core             593920  2 rtw89pci,rtw_8852b
snd_hda_codec         188416  4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
cfg80211             1138688  4 wl,rtw89core,mac80211,rtw_8852b
nvme_core             208896  3 nvme
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Does your WIFI return if you run:

echo 1  | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescan

…while your WIFI is still not working?

Hmmmm…

Edit:

Rather start a new thread, so that it’s not just you and me here, because I’ll shortly be off.

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No it does not!

The WIF is on, but no network appears…

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In the new thread, provide:

inxi -Naxz

…from before the suspend, as well as after, when it’s not working.

This is a different problem since the original was fixed, so a new thread is the best.

Feel free to reference this thread.

To be honest, getting new eyes on the problem will help, and lots as well, since I don’t use WIFI, so don’t have experience with it.

Another thing you could try, is using a kernel newer than version 6.2.

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