Manjaro update broke wifi network.

[wasab]

After an update with pacman -Syu, this happened 

Network manager is disable and the applet does nothing. systemctl to restart network manager tells me the service doesn't bloody exists. I know one thing for sure, manjaro is the 2nd shortest distro  I've ever used, after cub Linux. I'm going to distro hop to my next Linux system. Has anyone here experience a broken update as well?

 

(I'm typing this on my phone if anyone is wondering how I'm online)

[Sauron]

Did you write NetworkManager without the capital N and the capital M when trying to restart the service? It's a common mistake...

[jpenguin]

systemctl list-unit-files | grep --ignore-case net

 

Yes, I had experienced a couple bad updates on manjaro & arch

[wasab]

7 hours ago, Sauron said:

Did you write NetworkManager without the capital N and the capital M when trying to restart the service? It's a common mistake...

No. 

Network manager is dead. Can't connect anything

 

[jpenguin]

4 hours ago, wasab said:

No. 

Network manager is dead. Can't connect anything

Make sure there's nothing like netctl running, and reinstall https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager

[wasab]

1 hour ago, jpenguin said:

Make sure there's nothing like netctl running, and reinstall https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager

I can't reinstall if I have no internet connection. 

[Fleetscut]

is your wifi braodcom? broadcom drivers arent supported by the kernel, and the repo usually doesnt get updated until a few days after the new kernel goes out. If you pulled in a new kernel with your pacman -Syu then a broadcom wifi chip will no longer work. you can either check the repo to see if the new driver is released then put it onto a usb and install it, or roll back your kernel and linux headers.

[Sauron]

22 hours ago, wasab said:

I can't reinstall if I have no internet connection. 

You can use a live media to connect to the internet through wifi, chroot into your permanent installation and reinstall NM. If you don't have any live usb of manjaro or arch (you should always have one around when using either distro, they're immensely useful for recovery) you could ask a friend to make one for you.

[wasab]

2 hours ago, Fleetscut said:

is your wifi braodcom? broadcom drivers arent supported by the kernel, and the repo usually doesnt get updated until a few days after the new kernel goes out. If you pulled in a new kernel with your pacman -Syu then a broadcom wifi chip will no longer work. you can either check the repo to see if the new driver is released then put it onto a usb and install it, or roll back your kernel and linux headers.

again, i cant pacman -S anything when internet is down 

[wasab]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

You can use a live media to connect to the internet through wifi, chroot into your permanent installation and reinstall NM. If you don't have any live usb of manjaro or arch (you should always have one around when using either distro, they're immensely useful for recovery) you could ask a friend to make one for you.

i have one for mint which i use to clean reinstall the computer with. i gave up on manjaro. i do not like the distro very much anyhow so it is all fine 

[wasab]

2 hours ago, Fleetscut said:

is your wifi braodcom? 

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no, it is qualcomm

[cretsiah]

My understanding of Manjero was it was supposed to be based on Arch.

As far as I was aware Arch is more Bleeding Edge (so more likely to have hiccups) and unfortunetly some of those hiccups do make it downstream to their forks or derivatives.

[cretsiah]

dont know how you feel about command line work, but this might help for Arch/ Manjero/ other Arch based distro's

https://www.maketecheasier.com/netctl-network-connection/

[Linus_torvalds]

7 hours ago, wasab said:

again, i cant pacman -S anything when internet is down 

But you can do pacman -U. Try to downgrade linux kernel and headers. Or downgrade NetworkManager. If you will distro hop on every problem you encounter you will be out of linux distros in months

[duncannah]

can't ya use an ethernet cable to do whatever to fix it

 

or tethering the wifi from phone

[wasab]

On 11/2/2018 at 7:22 AM, duncannah said:

can't ya use an ethernet cable to do whatever to fix it

 

or tethering the wifi from phone

Dhcp and networkwork manager services are all gone. How am I suppose to wirelessly connect? I can chroot I suppose but my live USB is mint, not manjaro. 

 

I decided to clean install arch on my desktop and keep mint on my laptop for a while.