Wifi gets deactivated on closing lid

[KDE]

i am using manjaro kde, kernel 5.11 with kde 5.21, on an hp laptop with i3 and no dedicated graphics card

my wifi gets deactivated when ever i close my laptop lid, what can i do for it??

[Fabby]

• Go to System Settings
• Type lid
• Click on Energy Saving
• Activate Button events handling
• Change When laptop lid is closed to Do nothing like in below screenshot:

[KDE]

i tried that already it didn’t work so i rolled back to lts kernel 5.4
everything’s fine now wifi works properly and crashes are gone for good

uname --kernel-release
5.4.100-1-MANJARO

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

System:
  Kernel: 5.4.100-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 
  root=UUID=ec48b121-69d3-4cfd-88ea-cf9c898dacbd ro quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.1 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 250 G6 Notebook PC 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 832A v: 23.70 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.52 
  date: 03/04/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 35.7 Wh condition: 36.8/41.6 Wh (88%) volts: 16.8/14.6 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Charging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.76 GiB used: 1.87 GiB (49.5%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-7020U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: E0 L2 cache: 3 MiB bogomips: 18406 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca 
  mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand 
  rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme 
  vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 class ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-5:3 chip ID: 1bcf:2c9b class ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") 
  diag: 389mm (15.3") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip ID: 8086:9d71 class ID: 0403 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.100-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fb class ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus ID: 1-4:2 chip ID: 8087:0aa7 class ID: e001 
  Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 64.18 GiB (6.9%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 4C scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW DA8AESH rev: XH6M 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.6 GiB (98.32%) used: 64.18 GiB (7.0%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: ec48b121-69d3-4cfd-88ea-cf9c898dacbd 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 031A-DD6C 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  Message: No Unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0aa7 
  class ID: e001 
  Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Sunplus Innovation HP TrueVision HD Camera type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1bcf:2c9b 
  class ID: 0e02 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.5 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 184 Uptime: 18m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: 
  gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1527 pacman: 1507 lib: 439 flatpak: 15 snap: 5 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole inxi: 3.3.01

[Fabby]

Can you

1. mention the exact hardware in your question? (inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width) by clicking the pencil below your own question.
2. mention the exact kernel in your answer. (uname --kernel-release)
3. Then come back and click the 3 dots below the answer to mark a solution like this below your own answer.:
   
   so that the next person that has the exact same problem you just had will benefit from your post as well as your question will now be in the “solved” status.