Wifi Not Connecting At Start Up

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I’ve been using Manjaro Xfce for the last 18 months or so, and recently bought a new laptop and have installed Manjaro 21 Xfce on it.

When I restart the new laptop, the Wifi doesn’t connect, and only shows me Ethernet and VPN options.
When I shut it down, then wait, shortly after boot and log in the Wifi connects fine.

I’m only running ManjaroLinux 21.2.6 Qonos , no dual boot, etc.
The laptop is an Asus A15.

Any advice at what I should be looking at?
Thank you.

Edit: I will grab some system info in a moment and post below

inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=7c18a5fc-c389-4cd6-836c-622e3a2f5839 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
    v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506IC_FA506IC
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FA506IC v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: FA506IC.300 date: 09/02/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 39.8 Wh (81.1%) condition: 49.1/48.1 Wh (102.0%)
    volts: 11.9 min: 11.7 model: ASUS A32-K55 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600106
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB
    desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1397 high: 1416 min/max: 1400/2900 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1396 2: 1397
    3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1398 9: 1397 10: 1395 11: 1397
    12: 1397 13: 1397 14: 1397 15: 1395 16: 1416 bogomips: 92662
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  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
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: nvidia v: 510.73.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-05) arch: Ampere pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:25a2 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 322e:202c class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
    gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: Najing CEC Panda 0x004d built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 144 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42 5.15.41-1-MANJARO)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2291 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 05:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor driver: N/A
    alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 05:00.5
    chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.41-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63
    link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 13d3:3563 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 23.83 GiB (5.0%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZVLQ512HBLU-00BTW size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: FXM7201Q temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 468.09 GiB (98.21%)
    used: 23.83 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
  Processes: 333 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 560 Memory: 7.25 GiB
  used: 1.69 GiB (23.3%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1085 lib: 320 flatpak: 0
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.16
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This:

My only advice: Google for that device and see if you find anything useful. You’re not the only one having problems with this chip.

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Hi @rocket19 ,
I wonder whether you could try to solve your problem with this recipe.
Open an empty file called wifi_rand_mac.conf on the following directory /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/
and write the following:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

Other users prefer to put the two lines above in the /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkgManager.conf file.
I do not know the reason why they choose one instead another. I used the first option, by the way.
Save, Close or Exit and reboot. The problem should be solved.

Hope this help, regards

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Thank the responses!

It’s not letting me to create a new file in this folder?

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You need to create the file as root. Another thing to try is with a different kernel. Maybe kernel 5.17 will work better for you.

There has been a BIOS/UEFI update:
https://www.asus.com/in/supportonly/fa506ic/HelpDesk_BIOS/