Networking everyday problems - and solutions

[viking60]

Well I have this wife that has been using Arch for 6 years on her laptop - without knowing it.

It works like this:
If something does not work I am dynamically encouraged to fix it pronto! Which I do of course.

It worked well but a short while back the GUI disappeared due to a bug so I decided to install Manjaro on it.

My wife does not care if it is Linux or Windows - it just must work so I figured Manjaro would make my life easier.

Today she came in and said:

"The network is not working - fix it"

and indeed the Wifi was gone
No connection whatsoever.

So I calmed her down and said I would work my magic.
Often in these cases when "the network is gone" it is Dnscrypt and Dnsmasq that could be down - not so this time.

So I checked the network card and driver with

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inxi -n

And it was down but I needed to get the name of the wireless interface . it is not good old wlan0 anymore it is something like wlp7s0.

After that it is easy...

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ip link set wlp7s0 up

and

eh..no still nothing

Ah of course there is no ip so I did the ip addr add enchilada too

..and nothing.

So having done all the usual motions without any luck it dawned on me:

There is nothing wrong with the wifi setup on her box!

Then I entered the router and discovered that some ±£$¡² at the ISP must have been playing around in there and he simply had turned off the wifi!

It took me 10 minutes under heavy pressure.
Some ±£$¡ will have a difficult life after this and maybe I should have checked the obvious first


The moral of the story is: My Linux install is more trustworthy than my ISP