I am having trouble connecting to my wifi for the past couple of days. Let me tell you the backstory. I am using a HP Pavilion laptop. I uninstalled windows and started using manjaro from day one. Everything has been working fine for the past 4 months with no issues.
One fine saturday morning, I started taking an online course about microservices. During this course, the instructor asked to make changes to the file /etc/hosts.
I added the following line: 127.0.0. 1 ticketing.dev. I rebooted my system expecting to get response from my pod running locally when I hitticketing.dev but I instead I’ve received the response ‘not connected to the internet, try again’. I thought the problem is with my wifi but it is not. I got really frustrated and I decided to something so stupid. I installed ubuntu thinking it would solve my wifi issue. Nope, the problem escalated.
Ubuntu can’t even boot up properly. I went to sleep. The next day I woke up and decided to ditch ubuntu and install manjaro. This time I decided to go with KDE instead of Xfce. Thinking it would magically solve my wifi problem. Nope, the same issue. The End.
I started noticing a weird this morning. I had access to wifi networks. I thought the problem was solved. I was rejoiced. But, after 5 minutes, it stopped showing available networks.
When I use rfkill show all command, I don’t even see my wifi there. It’s only showing bluetooth. I swear I saw wifi there when I initially booted my laptop.
Any help from you guys would be appreciated. Thank you
How can I load the module? I did sudo modprobe iwlwifi but it still shows driver: N/A in the output. Also, I am now accessing the internet via usb tethering. Do you need any other info?
Hey guys, thanks for taking your time helping me. For some reason, wifi started working when I boot my laptop today. I thought it will stop working after 5 minutes but it seems to be working fine as of now. One thing I noticed is that now in the inxi output the driver value is not N/A, it is set to ‘iwlwifi’.
If anyone still reading this, my wifi once again stopped. I booted this moring and it worked. After sometime working with my laptop, I decided to shutdown so that the battery don’t drain up. I opened my laptop after finishing my lunch and I greeted with “internet disconnected, try again” in brave. I’ll continue updating here so that the mods are aware of this strange behaviour. Off to work, bye.
Hi @manikandanraji ,
In the linux hardware database, which I wrote above the driver is working for your laptop, although all HP Pavillion showed any kind of problem.
You are right about the driver is now iwlwifi but your wlo1 state is down. You were also using your smartphone Xiamomi Mi/Redmi connected as a bluetooth device?
Could you open a terminal and post the output of the following commands? lsmod | grep libphy sudo dmesg | iwlwifi
These outputs show the wireless modules and bluetooth you have installed on your notebook. The second command could help you to see whether is failing wifi card.
Hi, I’ve had issues with MAC randomization for a few months now, even with fresh KDE installs.
I guess there had been a new KDE or kernel update back then, I never had this problem until early 2021.
Here is what’s working for me, give it a try.
Create the file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/broadcom_wl.conf and edit it with these lines:
Hi, @manikandanraji ,
You are also rigth, your wifi driver is now up and running. @scachemaille wrote at the end of this post that is a draback of these wifi cards, but is compatible with Intel chips. So, you are lucky!.
I’ll try this if I face the problem again. Right now, I rebooted multiple times but the wifi is working properly without any changes from my part. If it stops working, I’ll try this. Thanks