I have a Pinebook with Manjaro-ARM, KDE-Plasma desktop. I use it with a wireless router (PlusNet) . Yesterday I updated to 2020-08-25. All went well. However, today it seems unable to find any wifi connections. I am using a temporary wired connection at the moment. Of course, this may be a coincidence. My Raspbian Rpi4 connects by wifi, so the problem is not at the router end, though I have restarted the router just in case. Are there any commands with which I can test the wifi hardware in the Pinebook? Have patience, I am very much a beginner with Linux.
Welcome to Manjaro!
Please read this:
and post some more information so we can see whatâs really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin liesâŚ
An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host would be the minimum required information⌠(Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
I did: inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-boot > Public/mydata
then copied and pasted Public/mydata into this post, only to get a warning saying I couldnât post links. What links? What do I do now? Sorry, this is rather new to me.
Does the network applet simply not show any wireless networks?
Have you tried toggling the Wifi checkbox in the applet on/off again?
Thatâs because you tried to link to a file on your local hard disk (which we cannot access) so just:
- open that file,
- copy the text,
- respond to this message
- type 3 backticks: ```
- paste the file contents
- type 3 more backtick.
- hit Reply
and then your inxi output will look like this:
Like this
All of the above is described in the article I originally linked to, so please help us help you!
@Strit. No wireless networks shown, despite fact that I am using it on a different machine right now. There is no wifi checkbox. I presume by âappletâ you mean whatever is putting the network icon on the taskbar?
No wifi checkbox�
It should be there. What image did you install from?
And whatâs the output of:
pacman -Qi ap6256-firmware
And does sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager bring it back?
(the command is case sensitive)
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Sorry, forgot the backticks.
parameters: initrd=/initramfs-linux.img console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO rw
rootwait video=eDP-1:1920x1080@60 video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60
bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/manjaro/bootsplash
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro ARM
Machine: Type: ARM Device System: Pinebook details: N/A serial: <filter>
Battery: ID-1: axp20x-battery charge: 86% condition: N/A volts: 3.9/2.9 model: N/A type: N/A serial: N/A
status: Discharging
Memory: RAM: total: 1.84 GiB used: 555.4 MiB (29.4%)
RAM Report: missing: Required program dmidecode not available
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: N/A variant: cortex-a53 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: ARMv8 family: 8
model-id: N/A stepping: 4 microcode: N/A bogomips: 0
Speed: 1152 MHz min/max: 648/1152 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1152 2: 1152 3: 1152 4: 1152
Features: aes asimd cpuid crc32 evtstrm fp pmull sha1 sha2
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: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 status: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: sun50i-a64-mali driver: lima v: kernel bus ID: N/A chip ID: allwinner:1c40000
Device-2: sun50i-a64-display-engine driver: sun4i_drm v: kernel bus ID: N/A
chip ID: allwinner:display-engine
Device-3: sun8i-a83t-dw-hdmi driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: allwinner:soc
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.8 driver: fbturbo compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: <xdpyinfo missing>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: simple-audio-card driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: simple-audio-card:soc
Device-2: simple-audio-card driver: asoc_simple_card bus ID: N/A chip ID: simple-audio-card:sound
Device-3: sun8i-a83t-dw-hdmi driver: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: allwinner:soc
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.3-2-MANJARO-ARM
Network: Device-1: mmc-pwrseq-simple driver: pwrseq_simple v: N/A port: N/A bus ID: N/A
chip ID: mmc-pwrseq-simple:wifi_pwrseq
Device-2: sun50i-a64-emac driver: N/A port: N/A bus ID: N/A chip ID: allwinner:soc
WAN IP: No WAN IP data found. Connected to the web? SSL issues?
Drives: Local Storage: total: 58.24 GiB used: 10.70 GiB (18.4%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk2 model: DA4064 size: 58.24 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
serial: <filter> rev: 0x8 scheme: MBR
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
RAID: Message: No RAID data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 58.00 GiB size: 56.84 GiB (98.00%) used: 10.64 GiB (18.7%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk2p2 label: ROOT_MNJRO uuid: 7b8907d4-78a2-4c22-898b-b86260cc16b8
ID-2: /boot raw size: 213.6 MiB size: 213.4 MiB (99.89%) used: 60.5 MiB (28.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/mmcblk2p1 label: BOOT_MNJRO uuid: 2D30-A679
ID-3: /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/9670 raw size: 85.8 MiB size: <root required> used: <root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop0 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-4: /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/9806 raw size: 85.5 MiB size: <root required> used: <root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop2 label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-5: /var/lib/snapd/snap/micro/2600 raw size: 3.6 MiB size: <root required> used: <root required>
fs: squashfs dev: /dev/loop1 label: N/A uuid: N/A
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: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 05e3:0608
Device-1: 2-1.1:3 info: USB2.0 Hub type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 258a:000c
Device-2: 2-1.2:4 info: MosArt Wireless Keyboard/Mouse type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 062a:4101
Device-3: 2-1.3:5 info: GEMBIRD Generic UVC 1.00 camera [AppoTech AX2311] type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1908:2311
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 167 Uptime: 17m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.18
running in: konsole inxi: 3.0.37
Ah, this is the original Pinebook.
What kernel are you on?
5.8.3-2-MANJARO-ARM aarch64
Hm. did you get any errors when updating? Like DKMS errors?
Try reinstalling the wifi driver with:
sudo pacman -S dkms-rtl8723cs
If that produces something that might look like errors, please post them.
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The image was reinstalled on June 24 by the company, RComp, that I bought it from.
Currently the kernel is 5.8.3-2-MANJARO-ARM. It was working well until a few days ago.
Output from âpacman -Qi ap6256 -firmwareâ:
error: invalid option â-fâ
Output from âsudo systemctl restart NetworkManagerâ:
Failed to restart NetworkManager.service: Unit Network.Manager .service not found.
Thatâs a huge issue. That service file should be there on all our Pinebook images.
If I was you, I would try:
sudo pacman -S dkms-rtl8723cs networkmanager
If any errors, please post them.
If successful, reboot and see if you have wifi.
:: Processing package changesâŚ
(1/1) reinstalling dkms-rtl8723cs
Error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/rtl8723cs-2020.03.15 does not exist.
error: command failed to execute correctly
Okay.
Try this command instead:
sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu dkms-rtl8723cs networkmanager
Rebooted after reload of networkmanager but no change. No wireless access points shown. In configuring the Wi-Fi connection should the mode be
Access Point, Infrastructure or Ad-hoc?
Though I suspect that this is a superficial detail by comparison.
Strit, Jeg skuâ alligevel tilsaet mange tak for Deres tryllekunstlige svarer. Jeg gaetter at problemet stemmer fra hardware mere end software.
Does this mean we have to close this topic as âHardware errorâ?
If not: You are connected through Ethernet while trying to solve the WiFi issue, right?
(Sorry! Just checking! Donât kill the messenger! 
)
Yes. I have Raspbian on an Rpi4 that talks to my router by wifi, and a Pinebook with Manjaro-ARM that used to do that, but now can be connected by ethernet2usb cable. I use Chrome on the former, Firefox on the latter.
Topic administratively closed as:
Hardware errorâŚ
