Hello Arch and Garuda community. I have made the jump to Linux after using many distros on VM on my main machine running WIndows.
While everything seems to be working, I do not see any WiFi networks. I have updated the system and kernel through my USB-C -to-Ethernet adapter.
My laptop uses the Intel WiFi 6 AX200 card. As you can see below, it's being detected. It's a WiFI+Bluetooth card and surprisingly the Bluetooth functionality is working totally fine.
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System: Kernel: 5.14.6-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=c17ffca9-34d6-43dd-9b73-ac4692ca4f5a
rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0
systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1 resume=UUID=ced70520-06e5-4dfc-b8ba-50009bab20ee loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401II_GA401II v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GA401II v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: GA401II.219
date: 12/30/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 72.0 Wh (97.8%) condition: 73.6/76.0 Wh (96.9%) volts: 15.8 min: 15.8
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Not charging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G304 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600HS with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 8600104 cache: L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 71859
Speed: 3486 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3486 2: 2222
3: 2932 4: 1582 5: 1417 6: 1596 7: 1402 8: 1396 9: 2241 10: 2339 11: 1394 12: 1396
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 470.74
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2192 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 158 size: 309x174mm (12.2x6.9") diag: 355mm (14")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.14.6-zen1-1-zen LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-4: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.6-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.35 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 6-1.4:4
chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enp4s0f4u1u4 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 5-4:4 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 13.58 GiB (1.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW010T8 size: 953.87 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 004C temp: 46.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 937.05 GiB size: 937.05 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.57 GiB (1.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 562 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 937.05 GiB size: 937.05 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.57 GiB (1.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 937.05 GiB size: 937.05 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.57 GiB (1.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 937.05 GiB size: 937.05 GiB (100.00%) used: 13.57 GiB (1.4%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.56 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 15.05 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 52.4 C mobo: 51.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2600
Info: Processes: 342 Uptime: 1h 3m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.05 GiB used: 6.27 GiB (41.7%) Init: systemd
v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1191 lib: 295
Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06
I found some solutions on the forum related to this particular card like
- Restart wifi module through Garuda Network Assistant
- Disable MAC address randomization
- Disable Fast Boot (which I did even before installing Garuda)
- Tried booting with linux kernel as well as linux-g14 kernel (supposedly patched kernel for my device)
I am using Garuda Linux as the only OS - erased disk while installing - so no dual-boot problems. Also secure boot was disabled before installing.
Please help me out with this issue. The distro is almost perfect just need to get WiFi working.