Wifi settings window not showing wifi list

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I have a use network adapter plugged in and have no trouble connecting to other wifi endpoints using wpa_supplicant command in the terminal.

But I can’t get the wifi list in the Settings in desktop. It’s just empty like this:

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The problem occurred after a lately update.

I am using the driver mt7601u-dkms-git provided in the AUR.

ifconfig -a can recognize the interface:

enp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.42  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::639e:cc05:49ab:5e12  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether d4:5d:64:ba:7d:b2  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4021539  bytes 4757452537 (4.4 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 54311  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2062383  bytes 235375257 (224.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 1213252  bytes 196970655 (187.8 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1213252  bytes 196970655 (187.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp0s20f0u1: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 48:8a:d2:b0:7c:a5  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2294  bytes 875484 (854.9 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 426  bytes 54201 (52.9 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

How can I get the Settings to show the wifi list? I will post more information if needed.

Update to provide more info:

The output of inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width is here:

System:
  Kernel: 5.12.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64 
  root=UUID=4992d523-c850-4d38-aefb-23b957616480 rw text apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Console: tty pts/2 DM: GDM 40.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME H310M-K R2.0 v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1401 date: 03/31/2020 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.57 GiB used: 7.94 GiB (51.0%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i5-9400F bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
  note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: EA 
  cache: L2: 9 MiB bogomips: 34814 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 843 6: 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 ida 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: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  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: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] vendor: PC Partner Limited 
  driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:6613 class-ID: 0300 
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa tty: 211x53 
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 
  Series] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 
  chip-ID: 1002:aab0 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.19-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.33 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u 
  bus-ID: 1-1:5 chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
  IF: wlp0s20f0u1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> virtual: stable-privacy scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found. 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 960.33 GiB used: 181.4 GiB (18.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Kingston 
  model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.82 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> scheme: MBR 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 95.37 GiB size: 93.37 GiB (97.91%) used: 49.63 GiB (53.2%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A 
  uuid: 4992d523-c850-4d38-aefb-23b957616480 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.8 MiB (99.95%) 
  used: 32 MiB (10.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: A5EB-573A 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 95.37 GiB size: 93.37 GiB (97.91%) 
  used: 79.63 GiB (85.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A 
  uuid: f01fc865-c5dd-4059-8e25-8c61af2cd6cd 
  ID-4: /home/trusted raw-size: 76.29 GiB size: 74.6 GiB (97.77%) 
  used: 9.76 GiB (13.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 label: N/A 
  uuid: 993ca106-1e38-499b-a116-ef510229fcd3 
  ID-5: /home/<filter>/share raw-size: 100 GiB size: 100 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 39.67 GiB (39.7%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 label: share 
  uuid: 06B97F5DD5788109 
  ID-6: /run/media/z/Ubuntu 20.0 raw-size: 28.82 GiB size: 28.79 GiB (99.90%) 
  used: 2.68 GiB (9.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb4 maj-min: 8:20 
  label: Ubuntu 20.0 uuid: B4FE-5315 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8 GiB used: 58.1 MiB (0.7%) priority: -2 
  file: /swap.file 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 100 GiB fs: ntfs 
  label: \xe7\xb3\xbb\xe7\xbb\x9f uuid: 9AAA3A3EAA3A176B 
  ID-3: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 416 GiB fs: ntfs 
  label: \xe8\xbd\xaf\xe4\xbb\xb6 uuid: 65F33762C14D581B 
  ID-4: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 size: 48.06 GiB fs: ntfs 
  label: \xe6\x96\xb0\xe5\x8a\xa0\xe5\x8d\xb7 uuid: A0A448B9A4489426 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1:5 info: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: Network 
  driver: mt7601u interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 160mA 
  chip-ID: 148f:7601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-5:3 info: SiGma Micro Keyboard TRACER Gamma Ivory 
  type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 98mA chip-ID: 1c4f:0002 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 1-6:4 info: USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 275d:0ba6 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-4: 1-8:8 info: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3/G4/SE9 G2/50 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0951:1666 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 26.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 361 Uptime: 2d 10h 53m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 1892 
  pacman: 1886 lib: 429 flatpak: 0 snap: 6 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 
  running-in: tty pts/2 (SSH) inxi: 3.3.06

Not sure whether it’s relevant: I am able to list all the wifi using iw dev wlp0s20f0u1 scan, but I cannot do that by nmcli dev wifi, which outputs an empty list. And ip -br addr says wifi is down, even if I enabled it by ifconfig wlp0s20f0u1 up.

lo               UNKNOWN        127.0.0.1/8 ::1/128 
enp3s0           UP             192.168.1.42/24 fe80::639e:cc05:49ab:5e12/64 
wlp0s20f0u1      DOWN
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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
    How to provide good information
    and press the three dots … below your post and press the :pencil2: to give us more information so we can see what’s really going on.
    Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies… :grin:
  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
    Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

:+1:

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I found that there was a line in NetworkManager configfile /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

# Configuration file for NetworkManager.
# See "man 5 NetworkManager.conf" for details.


[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlp0s20f0u1

which means the wifi adapter is not managed by NetworkManager so that explains why there is no wifi list in the Settings even if the adapter is working. I have no idea how there was a line of config in that file, but problems solved.

I finally figured it out. When running create_ap in the terminal, if the adapter is managed by NetworkManager, create_ap will mark the adapter unmanaged! Here is an example output by create_ap:

WARN: Your adapter does not fully support AP virtual interface, enabling --no-virt
Config dir: /tmp/create_ap.wlp0s20f0u1.conf.jfOr07B4
PID: 34446
Network Manager found, set wlp0s20f0u1 as unmanaged device... DONE
Sharing Internet using method: nat
hostapd command-line interface: hostapd_cli -p /tmp/create_ap.wlp0s20f0u1.conf.jfOr07B4/hostapd_ctrl
Configuration file: /tmp/create_ap.wlp0s20f0u1.conf.jfOr07B4/hostapd.conf
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