Wifi stopped workikng

Hi,
My wifi stopped working all of a sudden.
It shows available connections but when I choose my wifi network a notification appears telling the internet connection is disconnected…
Ethernet cable works.
I dual boot this laptop with Win10 and Wifi works there.
Today when booted to Manjaro XFCE it frooze on boot a couple of times. I thought something happened to GRUB.
The system is fully updated.
Heres some info:

[jesuslinux@T-2310 ~]$ inxi -Fxza
System:    Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 root=UUID=496329fc-5427-41d0-8026-14abd3f42402 rw quiet 
           apparmor=1 security=apparmor resume=UUID=b1988a61-f91d-4f1d-bc4c-fe7f69c1395c udev.log_priority=3 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
           base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite L40 v: PSL48E-01T00GPT serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Satellite L40 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1.50 date: 08/21/2007 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 13.1 Wh (99.2%) condition: 13.2/44.0 Wh (30.0%) volts: 12.6 min: 11.1 
           model: TOSASU NS2P3SZPHIWR type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual T2310 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom family: 6 model-id: F (15) 
           stepping: D (13) microcode: A4 cache: L2: 1024 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 5855 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/1467 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Toshiba driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:2a02 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 99 size: 330x210mm (13.0x8.3") diag: 391mm (15.4") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.4 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Toshiba driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:284b class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.23 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter vendor: Toshiba driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 
           modules: 8139cp port: c800 bus-ID: 05:07.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8139 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: enp5s7 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rtl8187 bus-ID: 1-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8197 
           class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlp0s26f7u2 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 23.41 GiB (31.4%) 
           SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MK8037GSX size: 74.53 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0M scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 34.75 GiB size: 33.95 GiB (97.70%) used: 23.41 GiB (68.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           maj-min: 8:3 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 146 Uptime: 22m wakeups: 1 Memory: 2.91 GiB used: 709.9 MiB (23.8%) Init: systemd v: 247 
           tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1153 lib: 369 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 
           running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.03

I’m using this old laptop to test some Linux Distros in live mode with USB with Ventoy on it.
I plan to ditch W10 since tis too slow.
I want to keep using Manjaro (Arch based) and choose an Distro based on Debian/Ubuntu
The wifi was working fine last night…

The Wi-Fi interface is down. Are you sure that you have not inadvertently switched off Wi-Fi (with a hardware switch) or in the network manager?

Try different kernel. Kernel 5.9 is EOL(end of life). Try 5.10 or 5.11 (I use 5.4 since I had issues with other kernels). I guess changing kernel might solve your problem