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Wifi and Audio don't work on Artix

Just moved from EndeavourOS to Artix and I am having issues with my wifi and audio. Most distros I never had issues with wifi and audio.

I understand there is a lack of binary blobs, I tried to install it sudo pacman -S linux-firmware but that made no difference, even after a reboot. What do I need to do?

My wifi adapter worked in live ISO but after installing the OS and rebooting, my wifi adapter does not work, what is missing on my PC vs live ISO?

I installed xanmod kernel as I found out I was using linux.artix kernel originally however still fails to work, I reckon something is missing that needs to be installed, not too sure what it is?

Re: Wifi and Audio don't work on Artix

Reply #1 –
Did you install Alsa or pulseaudio? What kind of wifi module?

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Reply #2 –
pulseaudio and I have a dlink external wifi adapter.

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Reply #4 –
Did you instal thel sof-firmware package?

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Reply #5 –
for wifi check askubuntu some of the commands are outdated so better to refer to wiki
some wifi cards' drivers have independent drivers package check the wiki

and if you thought wifi is complex, look out audio setup in wiki
more info and more

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Reply #6 –
Ok so what I know is that in the live ISO it was disabled the wifi adapter and I enabled it through the "Status Tray Plugin", the problem is that this plugin does not appear on the xfce taskbar after installing artix on the main computer despite it being in panel preferences:

https://imgur.com/a/149g6Tq

https://imgur.com/a/gF8W7dW

Regarding audio I will have a look at the setup as suggested but why in live ISO it worked but not after installation?

Re: Wifi and Audio don't work on Artix

Reply #7 –
Hello,

I use Artix OpenRC XFCE.

I replaced network-manager with connman:
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pacman -Qs connman
local/connman 1.41-1
     Intel's modular network connection manager
local/connman-gtk 1.1.1-3
     Tray menu and GTK3 GUI for ConnMan
local/connman-openrc 20210506-1 (openrc-galaxy)
     OpenRC connman init script

I have been using alsa only for several years.
I removed all pulse packets except libpulse and libcanberra.

I use alsa and the nice and very practical qastools mixer on different pc:
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4318.msg27848.html#msg27848

Note: I don't play games and don't use wine or steam.
But I have sound in all my apps.

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Reply #8 –
Unfortuantely I can't get fn keys to work, but thanks :)

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Reply #9 –
Occasionally wifi is blocked for some reason - in a terminal, try:
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$ rfkill
Other quick things to investigate, as mentioned in LemonPie's links above:
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$ ip link show
$ iw dev
# lspci -vvv    (look at "Network controller" section)

This will give more info to see if your wifi is detected, whether it is up or down, what it's name is, what driver it's using and the chipset number, so you can search this data online and ensure the correct driver is being loaded. Also you can search the Arch wiki and elsewhere to find if any special driver packages are needed for your wifi card.

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I assume you installed the linux-firmware package :
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pacman -Si linux-firmware
Dépôt                    : system
Nom                      : linux-firmware
Version                  : 20231211.f2e52a1c-1
Description              : Firmware files for Linux
Architecture             : any
URL                      : https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary

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pacman -Ss firmware
might help you find what you're missing...