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