Wireless drivers - no wireless connectivity on boot

I have tried several instances of linux builds to run from my usb stick. Installed as an OS

Ive tried :
popOS latest
Manajaro KDE 24.0.3 latest
Linux mint latest

Popos and linux mint on boot have the wireless drivers working but even on the live boot of manajaro i cannot get the wifi drivers to work

I have read this and several other forums. It seems i need marvell drivers (surfacepro 3) i5 4th gen. And since i am new to using linux commands i am nervous. There are no guides to install this? Ive swapped the kernel from stock to the stable recommended to see if it works. But didnt. Popos and mint came.with 5.1 kernel. I thought this could be the culprit. But i moved to the "recommended’ 6.1 kernel which didnt work. Do kernel updates carry forward previous updates because this didnt seem so. What i meant was if 5.1 had the issue fixed, the why wouldnt 6.1 have the same fix? Confusing. Anyway. Next to try is to see if installing marvell will work.

Of the 3 builds i mentioned i am glad that manjaro boots fastest. no lags… no feeling at all that i am running from a USB stick and the installation is well guided and informed. Thanks developer team for this awesome work.

Back to the point. Can some one guide me on this…becauae after rigorous testing i realy want mangaro kde.

While Manjaro is great, the continued use requires maintenance by a knowledgeable user.

Especially so, when a wifi driver is not avaiable OOB.

Please see → Surface Pro 3 Wifi and remember to adapt the instructions for the kernel on your system.

Also see → Microsoft Surface Pro 3 - ArchWiki

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Thanks! Do u know the command to install linux-firmware-marvell on pacman? I want to test is installing this will work. So first will try

pacman is the native package manager

sudo pacman -Syu linux-firmware-marvell

don’t run this on the live iso - it will not transfer to the installed system - install the system - use phone tetherring or usb-ethernet after installation to get network then run the installation.

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Thank you so much. Will try and update