I am going to endeavor to put as much context into this as I can, but please understand that I am incredibly new to Linux at large but know enough to be dangerous. As such, I have tried quite a few things and probably forgot to write something down here, but here it goes.
I installed Manjaro KDE onto my laptop yesterday and so far have been pretty happy with it. However after tweaking some network configuration settings on my home LAN (not wi-fi), my wi-fi connection dropped and I have not been able to stably reconnect.
I have tried restarting NetworkManger, reinstalling my drivers, installing iwd.service, changing several configuration settings both through GUI and CLI, all to no avail. Most often the connection shows “Configuring Interface” without going any further and eventually timing out. Latest logs below (I think).
At this point I have made so many changes I would just like to yeet all wireless configurations/drivers and reinstall from scratch, but my Googling has been rather unhelpful on what exactly needs to be removed/stopped/uninstalled. Last time I tried something like that improperly informed, I managed to convince Ubuntu that life just wasn’t worth booting into. I would rather not completely reinstall the OS if I can avoid it since this is being used for gaming and I would rather not redownload my libraries.
I apologize if I neglected to include something. Like I said, I’m pretty new to Linux and VERY new to Arch distros.
EDIT: lspci | grep net is not providing any information about my wireless adapter (built in). Just Ethernet. I found some info in the PCI Info Center though.
Wi-Fi Hardware
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 01)
DeviceName: Onboard - Ethernet
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at 6205234000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
journalctl
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.7324] device (wlo1): Activation: (wifi) connection ‘REDACTED’ has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.7508] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: disconnected → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.7508] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: disconnected → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.9462] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.9463] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.9976] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: associating → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:22 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468742.9977] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: associating → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.0001] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: disconnected → scanning
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.0002] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: disconnected → scanning
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.1333] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: scanning → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.1333] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: scanning → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.1618] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.1619] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.2205] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: associating → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.2205] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: associating → authenticating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.4770] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.4771] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: authenticating → associating
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.5242] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: associating → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:33 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468753.5243] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: associating → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:43 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468763.5266] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: disconnected → scanning
Mar 14 21:12:43 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468763.5266] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: disconnected → scanning
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7183] device (wlo1): Activation: (wifi) association took too long
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7184] device (wlo1): state change: config → failed (reason ‘no-secrets’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7633] device (wlo1): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to 46:78:89:FB:F1:AC (scanning)
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7667] device (wlo1): Activation: failed for connection ‘REDACTED’
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7668] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: scanning → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7668] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): supplicant management interface state: scanning → disconnected
Mar 14 21:12:47 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468767.7670] device (wlo1): state change: failed → disconnected (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:14:48 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468888.8607] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: disconnected → internal-down
Mar 14 21:14:48 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468888.8610] device (wlo1): state change: disconnected → unavailable (reason ‘supplicant-failed’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:14:48 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468888.8626] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): state change: disconnected → unavailable (reason ‘supplicant-failed’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0285] device (wlo1): supplicant interface state: internal-starting → disconnected
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0286] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): state change: unavailable → unmanaged (reason ‘removed’, sys-iface-state: ‘removed’)
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0291] Wi-Fi P2P device controlled by interface wlo1 created
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0292] manager: (p2p-dev-wlo1): new 802.11 Wi-Fi P2P device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/6)
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0294] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): state change: unmanaged → unavailable (reason ‘managed’, sys-iface-state: ‘external’)
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0297] device (wlo1): state change: unavailable → disconnected (reason ‘supplicant-available’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:14:49 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468889.0300] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): state change: unavailable → disconnected (reason ‘none’, sys-iface-state: ‘managed’)
Mar 14 21:15:07 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468907.0409] device (wlo1): state change: disconnected → unmanaged (reason ‘removed’, sys-iface-state: ‘removed’)
Mar 14 21:15:07 Katana NetworkManager[608]: [1710468907.0496] device (p2p-dev-wlo1): state change: disconnected → unmanaged (reason ‘removed’, sys-iface-state: ‘removed’)
UPDATE: I found a thread detailing how to completely yeet NetworkManager and all its configurations. Following it, I believe I was able to reset NetworkManager back to its default state, but I am still facing the original issue of connection dropping after a few seconds. I see now there are a LOT of threads about issues with wi-fi. I’ll spend some time combing through them looking for a solution, but if anyone can point me in the right direction to save me some time, I would appreciate it.
Reinstalling and/or wiping out all data (factory resetting) Network Manager