Buongiorno

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morning

https://twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/1289123431850614784 This brings us back to the old A-Sock, A-soohss pronunciation

how would you pronounce Assoccer?

I don't care what the inventor of GIFs wants me to call things, there's no such thing as jraphics

It's like giraffe

@ben.hammond option 3: A-soak

Any Dell XPS 13” / Arch users in here today..? My 2018 XPS 13” has just started to refuse to start my wireless card... Two days ago it was fine; just woke it from sleep, no amount of cajoling can get the wireless to turn on. Have gone around the rfkill and ip link set wlp2s0 up roundabout a few times and rebooted a bunch of times but I cannot coax it back to life :-(

Unfortunately if I can't get it working this will render my personal linux box effectively unusable 😞

I really don't relish copying all the data off and starting from scratch, plus I like Arch...

...normally

have you pressed the button, F10 I think?, to disable the wifi

@dominicm - F10 appears to be backlit keyboard. There is an antenna on the Home key, but that appears to only turn on / off the Bluetooth module

It also toggles the wifi, unless you've changed it in the bios.

rfkill list has wifi neither soft or hard blocked

I suppose if your wifi card is dead, then it wouldn't be distinguished

Oh crap...

It just stopped working after being in sleep - I hope it's not actually died, the machine is out of warranty

oh, hold on, this is just after it's been to sleep?

so on reboot it might be OK?

nope, I have rebooted via restart and shutdown and power on and nothing

Could be a kernel thing I suppose. Always worth trying the linux-lts kernel

worth checking dmesg and lspci too

dmesg looks as though the driver is loading

well, that's positive. That implies it's being seen!

Similarly lspci shows the wireless card...

I can see the hw switch “working” by toggling and running rfkill list

But ip link set wlp2s0 up does nothing :-(

My Google-Fu has utterly failed me too...

What did you mean about Linux-LTS?

it's just the stable kernel rather than the bleeding edge one

Oh I see - I must admit I have no idea how to switch

It’s just so weird - 2 days ago I was connected to the WiFi on it, having updated. I put it to sleep, woke it this afternoon and “Wireless is Deactivated” in the Desktop UI and no way to bring it back up

what desktop ui?

KDE 5

Bottom bar widget

I have no idea what it’s actually called

I wonder if KDE is somehow involved

Maybe... It’s worked flawlessly for 2.5 years, so I don’t have any specific reason to suspect it. Plus 2 days ago I did an update and power cycles the laptop and then used it for a couple of hours with WiFi then put it to sleep. WiFi was none existent on wake up.

Frankly it’s bizarre ;-)

I get suspicious of the DEs because they make it easy to accidentally press things

Yeah, I know what you mean, but there does not seem to be a control for this - it’s all a bit too high level ;-)

Yeah, it would appear that I can’t get the LTS kernel without being connected to the internet :-(

Don't you have any ethernet cables you can stick into your router?

@djm_uk it’s a laptop that does not have an Ethernet port :-(

yeah, I realized that 😄

Ahh, you can get usb ethernet adapters, if you don't mind spending a bit of money and waiting

@djm_uk - I may have to... :-(

For trying a different kernel, I would try burning a live image of another distro to a usb stick first (if I didn't already have a usb-ethernet thing)

or a usb wifi card 😄

Well yeah if the WiFi card inside is b0rk3d...

:-(

you can get dinky ones these days, much less of a bother

Thx for the ideas / help nonetheless :-)

@dominicm good point!

@dominicm - You don't happen to have a brand / chipset recommendation re compat do you?

always atheros

Thx :-)