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WIFI does not work

pedo-gendo - over 3 years ago -

I recently installed Parabola and my wifi does not work. I am using Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 and it should work fine. When I am using ethernet is working perfectly though.
I attached some commands I tried.


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RE: WIFI does not work - bill-auger - over 3 years ago -

the reports in the attached file look normal - the driver is loaded and in-use; and the kernel assigned an ID to the device - i would expect that the device should appear in nmtui, or whatever tool you choose to manage connections - probably, it is just a matter of configuring it, and bringing it online; and/or configuring it to be brought up when the system starts

RE: WIFI does not work - pedo-gendo - over 3 years ago -

I tried nmcli and it works. It says that Device 'wlp2s0' successfully activated. However, whey I try something like ping 8.8.8.8 I have 100% packet loss. What might be the reason? Is it on the side of my router? Other devices work perfectly with this wifi.

RE: WIFI does not work - bill-auger - over 3 years ago -

ping is currently broken on a openrc system as an unprivileged
user - maybe thats the problem

try `curl gnu.org` - you should get a 301

RE: WIFI does not work - pedo-gendo - over 3 years ago -

'curl gnu.org' gives 'curl: (6) Could not resolve host: gnu.org'
And 'pacman -Syu' also gives errors like 'failed retrieving file ...'

RE: WIFI does not work - bill-auger - over 3 years ago -

that looks like a name resolution problem then -
try adding a DNS server to /etc/resolv.conf

  1. nsno /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 80.80.80.80

RE: WIFI does not work - pedo-gendo - over 3 years ago -

The problem is that when I am using ethernet 'curl gnu.org' gives 301 and 'ping gnu.org' gives normal output. How can I make this with wifi? I don't quite understand what exactly I should add to the /etc/resolv.conf, should I add manually any address I want to reach? Then why via ethernet I don't have to do this? Sorry if those questions are dumb I am a newbie.

RE: WIFI does not work - bill-auger - over 3 years ago -

if internet is working over wired ethernet, then you do not need to do anything to /etc/resolv.conf

it probably just needs some routine troubleshooting - if you join the ##networking IRC channel on freenode, you may be able to get real-time help

maybe you are using encryption and do not have wpa_supplicant installed? - does it work if you disable WPA on your router, and connect without encryption?

maybe your have it configured for DHCP, and you rrouter is not giving it an IP address?

have you tried that device with a parbaola LiveISO?
have you tried that device with any other distro?

RE: WIFI does not work - pedo-gendo - over 3 years ago -

It is weird. I reloaded the laptop and now wifi works. 'ping 8.8.8.8' works fine and 'curl gnu.org' gives 301. And wpa_supplicant was installed too. Maybe the problem was with my internet connection. I consider the problem solved for now. Anyway thanks for answering and helping with the trouble.

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