On my Assus TUF gaming laptop, Wifi stops working after a few minutes.
When I restart network manager (sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager), it either works again, or it does not detect any wifi SSIDs anymore, and the network interfaces become unavailable.
In the past, there also was a period of time that my wifi regularly stopped working, and it has been working good again afterwards, but now the problem re appears, and it is worse than before.
nmcli -show  ✔  7s 
lo: connected (externally) to lo
"lo"
loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536
inet4 127.0.0.1/8
inet6 ::1/128
route6 ::1/128 metric 256
enp2s0: unavailable
"Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411"
ethernet (r8168), 3C:7C:3F:1A:FA:4A, hw, mtu 1500
wlp3s0: unavailable
"Realtek RTL8822CE"
wifi (rtw_8822ce), D8:C0:A6:0E:EB:3F, hw, mtu 1500
nmcli connection show  ✔
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
lo 0ae91f9a-9875-4689-8e8f-5680f8d3c31b loopback lo
aaa 466bcb5c-789e-48b6-a3dc-796271fec3f9 wifi --
Armonea-Guest a00eafb3-5bc3-4034-97c0-fe5794a62fc7 wifi --
MABO 322d6fdd-f604-4bf8-ad39-aac76823b45d wifi --
Wired connection 1 1cc25d2d-9fff-30e6-b4ad-02a8054a5fe3 ethernet --
nmcli device show  ✔
GENERAL.DEVICE: lo
GENERAL.TYPE: loopback
GENERAL.HWADDR: 00:00:00:00:00:00
GENERAL.MTU: 65536
GENERAL.STATE: 100 (connected (externally))
GENERAL.CONNECTION: lo
GENERAL.CON-PATH: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1
IP4.ADDRESS[1]: 127.0.0.1/8
IP4.GATEWAY: --
IP6.ADDRESS[1]: ::1/128
IP6.GATEWAY: --
IP6.ROUTE[1]: dst = ::1/128, nh = ::, mt = 256
GENERAL.DEVICE: enp2s0
GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet
GENERAL.HWADDR: 3C:7C:3F:1A:FA:4A
GENERAL.MTU: 1500
GENERAL.STATE: 20 (unavailable)
GENERAL.CONNECTION: --
GENERAL.CON-PATH: --
WIRED-PROPERTIES.CARRIER: off
IP4.GATEWAY: --
IP6.GATEWAY: --
GENERAL.DEVICE: wlp3s0
GENERAL.TYPE: wifi
GENERAL.HWADDR: D8:C0:A6:0E:EB:3F
GENERAL.MTU: 1500
GENERAL.STATE: 20 (unavailable)
GENERAL.CONNECTION: --
GENERAL.CON-PATH: --
IP4.GATEWAY: --
IP6.GATEWAY: --
When I reboot in windows, which I normally don’t use, wifi does not work there either, but the windows troubleshooter fixes it, and when I then reboot in Manjaro, wifi works again for a few hours, and then it breaks again.
Not sure, but I am thinking it may be a driver bug that resurfaced after a Manjaro update.
Is there somewhere I can find older drivers to try if that solves the network problem, or any other way to troubleshoot and solve this issue ?
Any ideas on how to fix this ?
Another issue is that the pacman gui app does not update the system anymore.
I was able to do an update using the terminal command sudo pacman -Syyu
but a few AUR packages don’t get updated.
Pacman says "failed to prepare transaction and suggests to edit build files.
Failed to prepare transaction:
target not found:
I am running Manjaro for almost 4 years now on this laptop, and lately experimented with a number of install/uninstalls, and also installed a Brother printer driver using the Brother install script that required installing dpkg, which is a Debian package manager.
Do you think it is time for a complete re install of Manjaro and to start with a clean system to fix all of these problems ?
