FS#71863 - [networkmanager] Wifi not auto starting and random disconnections
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Opened by Matias Paredes (Matipa456) - Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 14:30 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Saturday, 03 June 2023, 00:15 GMT
Opened by Matias Paredes (Matipa456) - Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 14:30 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Saturday, 03 June 2023, 00:15 GMT
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Details
Basically, once I started my computer it had no Internet.
After some troubleshooting I found the WiFi interface name
randomly changed from wlan0 to wlp1s0, so I started the WiFi
card, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd manually and Internet came
back, but with random disconnections. Then, after I did some
stuff on the computer, I changed the systemd units to
reflect the new name and restarted, but for some reason
wpa_supplicant was unable to start properly (after some
research I found the /run/wpa_supplicant/wlp1s0 file wasn't
deleted after reboot). I tried using iwd instead of
wpa_supplicant and also tried changing the interface name to
what it was before the problem happened (and more stuff from
the wiki), but nothing changed. As a last attempt to solve
the problem by myself I changed Network Manager to netctl
and that finally solved both problems.
Package versions: - networkmanager 1.32.8-1 - wpa_supplicant 2:2.9-8 - dhcpcd 9.4.0-1 - iwd 1.16-1 - netctl 1.25-1 - linux-lts 5.10.56-1 - linux-lts-headers 5.10.56-1 (the two last may be relevant) Hardware (may be relevant): -WiFi card: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 (kernel module ath9k) PS: My networking knowledge is pretty elemental. Also, I didn't saw this problem in the upstream forums or in the Arch's ones |
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I have had the same issues with a totally different hardware combination... at the end I discovered it was not a problem of networkmanager at all...