Wrong Password bug

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If you have an android phone - connect your pc with the android using your charger cable.

Then enable your phone’s hotspot using USB - your Manjaro system should pick up the connection and you can update your system.

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first:
if you have Network Manager (and you do, you said so yourself and it is also the default in any Manjaro flavour)
then you definitely do have a directory called NetworkManager in /etc

second:
I do not know what you mean when you say

checked the /etc folder (both of them)

because: there is only one - not two

as for the router configuration (WPA2 …)
it was only my guess that this would help your issue

It has to be a pretty special router if this kind of thing is not configurable.
You just do not know where to look - perhaps the option is named unintuitively.
No idea without access to the manual.

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I think I finally realized what was going on. Ignore my previous claim about have several etc folders (I have 3 of them, in fact, but they are just drivers for Windows, for Wine that is). I changed the NetworkManager.conf but it resulted in no difference. Is there some other way to update it without reinstalling the OS again?
As for the router I use TP-LINK, one of the most common out there

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I did update the system (although my phone can’t see the PC and wise versa - Androids hate Linuxes and don’t know a single way to change that, Bluetooth still doesn’t work though), and the update was successful. I still can’t connect to my main wifi regardless, only to my phone.
I used “sudo pacman -Syu” though, I think there are other commands like “sudo pacman -Suu” or something, but I never knew the difference

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What did you change - and what was that change supposed to achieve?

You need some kind of systematic approach - and if you want help here, you need to tell us what exactly you did, what errors you got and so on.
We do not sit in front of your device - you do.

re the Android phone for networking:

You connect it via USB cable and enable tethering on the phone - so you can use it’s internet connection.
You can even connect it wirelessly to your router - so that you do not use up possibly expensive mobile data.

That way you also know whether your router actually works - when the phone can connect to it.

to see what is going on while you are trying to connect (and fail to do so)
you can have a live view of the system log running in a terminal

first way:
journalctl -f

second way:
sudo dmesg -W

it is quite easy to figure that out

read the wiki
the Arch wiki as well as Manjaro’s

and the manual pages for the programs
man pacman
man pamac

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Alright, let’s do it slowly. First I went to that NetworkManager folder in the /etc and in NetworkManager.conf I simply added

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-ma-address=no

Then I reloaded the PC (obviously saved the changes) and found nothing has changed.
journalctl revealed this https:// cdn.discordapp. com/attachments/800394176687505439/1040322218367918150/20221111_004820.jpg and it keeps going. I probably should remind everyone who listens (and god thank you all for that) that I did update the entire system using mobile data prior to making the post, it just seems like the Network Manager itself didn’t get updated or something

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There is a typo at least, it’s missing a c: wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no.
edit: I looked at your journal excerpt above. There is nothing much related (wpa_supplicant journals a REGDOM event for your wifi-interface wlo0, but I don’t think this is a cause for the error).
Perhaps the last journal specifically for wifi reveals more:

# journalctl -b --unit={NetworkManager,wpa_supplicant}
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Pay attention to detail!
You have a typo there!

It should be:

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

I also had problems with the default behaviour of changing MAC addresses for scanning
so I also added this:

[connection]
wifi.cloned-mac-address=permanent

try it if you like - it may help

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That’s my typo. The keyboard I have here is a bit old… being about 20 years old in fact.
I finally found a clue when I tried to connect to my main wifi and it was saying something about the beacon loss. Phone decided to start working through USB without problems or extra apps again, which compliments my theory that all code is just a constantly evolving hivemind without any sort of rules or limits; but I could transfer actual screenshots this time. Look.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800394176687505439/1040499868478738502/Screenshot_20221111_123312.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800394176687505439/1040499868747182080/Screenshot_20221111_123238.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/800394176687505439/1040499868998844436/Screenshot_20221111_123346.png

It says something about wrong password, but it really is not the case, I compared them two several times
Also, I’m going afk for several days, please don’t close the thread until it’s fixed. Really don’t wanna reinstall the OS

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My typo. Sorry. This keyboard I use here is quite old. I’ll try the [connection] thing now but as I’ve stated above, I’m going afk for several days and will not reply tomorrow, sorry again.
I’ve also included screenshots in my other reply. Thanks for everything

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“Beacon loss” is often happening when the kernel module for the wifi has powersave features enabled. To disable, you look for configuration settings with modinfo yourwificardmodule. The relevant module you’ll find in dmesg |grep wlo1 or with lspci -k.

Don’t worry about it being wrong then. The networkmanager alert may appear erroneously when authentication fails for other reasons (that’s why the others above asked about WPA2/3). To be certain, delete the connection in NetworkManager and add it from fresh.

Since you now have internet on the machine with either the phone or your other wifi, post regular output next (screenshot excerpts are semi-helpful, too easy to miss something).

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It is a pity that you only included screenshots
when copy pasting the text was likely just as easy

screenshots are discouraged because of this, especially when it’s text output:
they cannot be parsed - and I cannot copy/paste a relevant section to show you what stood out to me

descriptive then …

we saw that the handshake failed when the password was supposed to be validated

since it worked before, but now not anymore
it could have to do with the kernel that you are currently running

Try using a different kernel.

Install an additional one if you only have one - so you have the ability to choose between what may work and what may not.

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I’m finally back, took a while longer than expected. Alright, I’m willing to update the kernel or use a different one, but so far I couldn’t find any download links to them.
Seems like it’s something you don’t just install and instead fix through heavy consoling. I really don’t like to touch that stuff much, I tend to break stuff that shouldn’t be breakable. But I’ll try it anyway, I’ll mark a reply with a solution

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Nope, it’s not kernels and my computer is now definitely updated completely and fully. And it still does not connect to wifi, same problem remains

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I think I should explain it better. It worked before, sure, but it worked shortly (about a few months) after I installed the entire OS for the second time. That’s when I connected my phone’s wifi to the PC. A year later and several postponed updates later I got wifi at my place, and only that is when I noticed the wifi not connecting. But if pacman can’t fix it via updates, and kernel is not it, then what could it be?

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Configuration or user error.
Try deleting the connection from Networkmanager and start from scratch.

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Alright, everyone, pack it up. The problem was in the router itself and I had to call technicians to fix it. Thank you everyone who tried to help. However, updating the system through sudo pacman -Syyuu did help a bit, as my system was outdated.
If something like that happens again, reset your router by holding reset button for 5+ seconds until the lights blink, then use the base password. At least it applies to routers that have reset buttons, like TP-Link ones.

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