Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread Leo Noordhuizen via arch-general
Ok... I managed to get wifi working ... The steps I took after booting from the initial image: # rkill unblock wlan # copy /etc/netctl/examples/wireless-wpa /etc/netctl/mywifi wrote: > On 12/05/2019 01:50 PM, L. Rose wrote: > > did you check "ip l" when booting the arch live image, to see if t

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread leoutation
On 12/5/19 10:59 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: With the arch installer, if the wifi chip is enable, it should be picked up and enabled automatically. "With the arch installer"??? :) You confuse with another distribution. There is no any 'installer' to install Arch. -- Maderios

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/05/2019 01:50 PM, L. Rose wrote: > did you check "ip l" when booting the arch live image, to see if the interface > is really not detected? Did you try unblocking it with rfkill? Maybe there is > a hardware switch on your device, or a key combination with fn + f8 or > similar? I would secon

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Leo, > I seem not to be able to get Wifi working when booted from the Arch > installation image. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration/Wireless may have some useful information. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread L. Rose
Hi Leo, did you check "ip l" when booting the arch live image, to see if the interface is really not detected? Did you try unblocking it with rfkill? Maybe there is a hardware switch on your device, or a key combination with fn + f8 or similar? Otherwise, it might be helpful if you'd provide

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread Bjoern Franke via arch-general
Hi, I would love to get some pointers what to change to get this working, otherwise Ill return the laptop and look for a more cooperating one. Can you provide the output of lspci -v regarding the wirleess chipset? Regards Bjoern

[arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread Leo Noordhuizen via arch-general
(nb - I did post this question also on Reddit) So I decided to replace my aging ASUS laptop with a shiny new one. After long considerations and lurking in various places I decided to go for this - not very cheap - one. One of the reasons is that I this time intend not to remove Windows and keep t