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Artix Linux => Installation / Migration / Configuration => Topic started by: neokovacs on 17 February 2021, 19:08:19

Title: [SOLVED] Can't install Artix Linux base due to not being able to connect to wifi
Post by: neokovacs on 17 February 2021, 19:08:19
I've been really wanting to install Artix Linux on my laptop,  First of all my laptop model is 20DM000VUS ThinkPad S3 Yoga 14 and here is the section of the lspci -k command that shows my wifi card:
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02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
This laptop doesn't have an ethernet port, so I have to rely on wifi to Install it, but I can't connect to wifi at all! I 've Installed couple of distros multiple times on this machine, Linux Mint, Pop OS, Manjaro and recently switched to Arch, none of them really had an Issue like that, so I think it might not be an Issue with my wifi card. I've tried many methods I've found on the internet. but none of them seem to work, for example: this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGyHDIYlLFA) video from Mental Outlaw, this article (https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/09/18/connect-to-wifi-network-from-command-line-in-linux/), also some other stuff I can't find right now. When it comes to that article, when I ran
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wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and then
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iw wlan0 link
It always showed Not connected. I tried replacing wext with iwlwifi in wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf it gave an error along the lines of
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"iwlwifi" is not a supported driver
and it still says Not connected. I really don't know what to do tbh, any help would be appreciated, thank you :)
Title: Re: Can't install Artix Linux base due to not being able to connect to wifi
Post by: phoenix_king_rus on 17 February 2021, 19:53:17
Try "-D nl80211" instead of wext
Title: Re: Can't install Artix Linux base due to not being able to connect to wifi
Post by: neokovacs on 18 February 2021, 10:56:48
It worked! Thank you very much phoenix, for helping me out  :-*
Title: Re: Can't install Artix Linux base due to not being able to connect to wifi
Post by: ironcrystal on 25 February 2021, 23:01:07
Just remove connman, use network manager instead. Iwlwifi has some problems with connman. It's too big of a bug, don't even waste time.