Unable to connect to the internet

[malachy]

Hello Manjaro Forum,
I've recently installed Manjaro 18.0.4 XFCE on my old Samsung laptop (manufactured in 2008) but when I try to connect to any website other than Google the connection fails. I'm able to ping 8.8.8.8, 127.0.0.1 and localhost. After searching through some previous forums I've found that it might be a problem with my DNS servers, but I have absolutely no idea how to fix this problem as I made the switch to Linux about a month ago!
I'm also unable to use makepkg, curl or wget.
A step by step guide would be really helpful.

Thanks,
Malachy Allen

P.S. If I have to change settings on my router then please know that I have a lot of devices on it that are required to be internet connected as long as they are powered on.

[SGS]

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A step by step guide would be really helpful.

You use W LAN?

You use LAN-cable?

Please post

$ inxi -Fxxxz

after reading the link I posted.

[yawanthan]

here is some info
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/search?q=internet

[malachy]

Heya SGS,
I'm using WLAN at the moment as my LAN cable is being used by my PC which doesn't have a network adapter in it. From past experience I can say that the only way I can connect via LAN is to connect to the router directly with a network cable instead of through my WiFi booster (it never worked when connected via LAN through the booster).

Here's the output of running inxi -Fxxxz:

System:
  Host: samsung-manjaro Kernel: 4.19.60-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 9.1.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.13.5git-645f19 tk: Gtk 3.24.10 
  info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: SAMSUNG product: R59P/R60P/R61P v: 07YI 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: R59P/R60P/R61P serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix v: 07YI 
  date: 03/05/2008 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.9 Wh condition: 24.4/24.4 Wh (100%) volts: 11.8/11.1 
  model: SAMSUNG Electronics type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Unknown 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T5550 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Core Merom rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 7316 
  Speed: 1044 MHz min/max: 1000/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1044 2: 997 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RS600M [Radeon Xpress 1250] vendor: Samsung Co 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:05.0 chip ID: 1002:7942 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting 
  alternate: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: ATI RS600 v: 2.1 Mesa 19.1.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Samsung Co driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.60-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Askey driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 9000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:001c 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Marvell 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet vendor: Samsung Co 
  driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: a000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 11ab:4353 
  IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 7.61 GiB (5.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HM160HI size: 149.05 GiB 
  speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0-06 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 145.71 GiB used: 7.61 GiB (5.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 142 Uptime: 11m Memory: 2.68 GiB used: 544.6 MiB (19.8%) 
  Init: systemd v: 242 Compilers: gcc: 9.1.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.7 
  running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.35 

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Malachy Allen

[SGS]

Please post

systemctl status NetworkManager

[malachy]

● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
           └─NetworkManager-ovs.conf
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-08-01 19:31:07 BST; 2min 59s ago
     Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
 Main PID: 439 (NetworkManager)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 3277)
   Memory: 15.9M
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           └─439 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.8645] device (wlp2s0): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.8670] device (wlp2s0): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.8677] device (wlp2s0): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.8691] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_LOCAL
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.9331] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.9341] policy: set 'SKY3265F 1' (wlp2s0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
Aug 01 19:31:37 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684297.9352] policy: set 'SKY3265F 1' (wlp2s0) as default for IPv6 routing and DNS
Aug 01 19:31:38 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684298.1207] device (wlp2s0): Activation: successful, device activated.
Aug 01 19:31:40 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684300.2293] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Aug 01 19:31:52 samsung-manjaro NetworkManager[439]: <info>  [1564684312.5920] agent-manager: req[0x55da1c368d40, :1.100/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent registered

[SGS]

@malachy

Qualcomm Atheros AR242

Hardware encryption?

sudo cat /etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2160177

[malachy]

I get a no such file or directory error

[SGS]

ls -la /etc/modprobe.d/

[malachy]

total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 31 11:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 4096 Aug  1 20:03 ..

[SGS]

ls -la /etc/modprobe.d/                                                                            
insgesamt 12K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  124 01.08.2019 17:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,3K 01.08.2019 21:01 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  139 28.07.2019 14:49 linux419-broadcom-wl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  139 28.07.2019 11:59 linux52-broadcom-wl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  129 01.08.2019 13:29 mhwd-gpu.conf

Are you missing the driver/.conf?
I can't help you with that.

[malachy]

Hiya,
After messing around with sudo ip link set wlp2s0 down, sudo modprobe ath5k and sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up I've been able to fix my problem.

Thanks for your help!
Malachy Allen