there is no activity.... the bytes send/receive is blank and it only shows a port and ethernet  with a red 'x' so that tells me it isn't seeing the wifi card. and don't ask.... I never had the ethernet cable until I tried arch.

network manager? well I installed arch via the ISO and typing 'archinstall'.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:54 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Did you install a full desktop on it?  If so, you should have NetworkManager in some flavor present, if not, highly suggest using that.  It's probably a bit easier to troubleshoot with nmcli and the gui itself.

If you look at logs with journalctl -f while doing so, any logs there point to problems?

Otherwise, maybe just make sure the wlan nic is working doing some basic kismet scans that you're seeing yourself and your neighbors ssid's pop up.  As long as you're seeing traffic, it *should* work.

-mb

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:34 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I connect to the internet ( I guess):

[bmike1@HavensARCH ~]$ iwctl
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect NETGEAR48
[iwd]#

(I had entered my password before)

but nothing happens (no WIFI icon). So I unplug the ethernet and restart the computer but still nothing (and no internet as well in case you were wondering). So I ran

[bmike1@HavensARCH ~]$ iwctl
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect NETGEAR48

again but still no internet. So, please, how do I get WIFI going?

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