Yes.
Make sure you installed any drivers, and that they built (e.g. you also installed the headers for your kernel if you’re using a DKMS driver).
I’ll try to connect with a usb ethernet adapter and see if pacman can install the drivers
You can also use your mobile phone to use USB tethering for wired internet. And then you can use your phone to the Wi-Fi.
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5.12.3 has the same issue for me.
I have no issues on any of the 5.12 kernels on Nvidia or Ryzen with Xfce, Cinnamon, Kde or i3 
Edit:
[ricklinux@eos-i3 ~]$ uname -a
Linux eos-i3 5.12.3-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 12 May 2021 17:54:18 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
We know, you mentioned that two days ago already.
I also don’t have a problem. This thread isn’t about us, let’s maybe give them a hand?
Did you check the Arch bug report? loqs has uploaded a test kernel build that applies a patch that might help.
What happens if you log into a TTY then run startx ? (see also [FAQ] Computer doesn’t boot, boots to a black screen, or stops at a message).
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I just don’t think it’s always a kernel problem. Everybody always blames it on the kernel. Just saying! 
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I mean it can be a kernel problem but an obscure one. Hardware is tricky, and if a certain combination of graphic card AND a certain combination of motherboard AND a certain display manager AND…
For example I know for a fact that my NVIDIA card simply doesn’t work properly with non-free drivers on kernels newer than 5.10, even on Xorg. It just doesn’t. (It’s an 1050 btw, and it is explicitly listed as one of the NVIDIA cards that just doesn’t work anymore. although it is currectly using the newest drivers (it is not a legacy card)). Nobody can give an explanation to WHY, tho. Older cards work. Newer cards work. But this one and a few in that specific generation doesn’t. It supposedly is on Linus roadmap to fix it later in 5.12.x. he is personally talking with NVIDIA devs about it, but…
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Not sure I’m looking in the right place as I can’t find this?
This has never worked for me, since the day I installed Arch.
I can boot in TTY and then run startx
switched to LTS kernel and ran pacman -syu while connected to usb hotspot. Will stick to LTS until mainstream kernel is fixed
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Hello everybody,
I was working intense this week and couldn’t spare my time. I tried to change lightdm.conf but did not fruitfull. I loaded on kernel-lts and now it seems it is working… I am in my desktop environment again. I did not now this double kernel stuff. Thank you all for your help. İf problem solves for new kernek please inform ourselves…
Kaan
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While I can’t disagree with this statement, it is by miles one if the easiest things you can test to fix a problem, especially after an update. I’m not sure anyone says it’s always a kernel problem. But telling people that you’re not having a problem and stating it again a couple of days later doesn’t reinforce that it’s not actually a kernel problem. It just states you don’t have one. Especially since it seems folks are continuing to have kernel problems:
And this:
Sometimes, it just boils down to the kernel. And 5.12 sucks so far.
Yes…i am not having any problems with the kernel as i have stated. Yes I mentioned it previously but, that was a different kernel. I was just saying I’m not having any problem with 5.12.3 either. I also mentioned it’s not always the kernel which is true. For some it is …others it is not! It does suck when things don’t work. I just have a different view of things because I’m not an lts kernel user. This is Rolling so i want to use the most current kernel. I realize sometimes that’s not possible for some users.
Can’t say I have had kernel issues either and this is new hardware…
Summary
System: Kernel: 5.12.3-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: X570 Taichi serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P4.30 date: 04/14/2021
CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L2: 4 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 147332
Speed: 4598 MHz min/max: 2200/4600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4598 2: 4601 3: 4593 4: 4595 5: 4598
6: 4589 7: 4607 8: 4602 9: 4601 10: 4605 11: 4595 12: 4591 13: 4608 14: 4604 15: 4600 16: 4599
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 vendor: Sapphire Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel
bus-ID: 0f:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
alternate: ati,fbdev,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0f:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 11:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.3-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.27 running: no
Network: Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASRock driver: igb v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2:2 chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives: Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 1.27 TiB (34.9%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB size: 1.82 TiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
Partition: ID-1: / size: 62.44 GiB used: 13.25 GiB (21.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot size: 998 MiB used: 150.9 MiB (15.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 1.73 TiB used: 1.26 TiB (72.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: 0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 53.0 C mem: 60.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info: Processes: 323 Uptime: 22m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.27 GiB used: 2.86 GiB (9.1%) Init: systemd v: 248 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 862 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04
My hardware is almost the same but lower. 3800XT RX 590 2x500 GB m.2 4TB HD X570 Board. Your’s is definitely higher spec than mine but very similar. I think newer hardware is just better especially with current kernels.
Edit: My Intel is similar but with Nvidia.
Someday we’re going to be sitting around having a beer talking about the time we survived the 5.12 like it’s some sort of war story from our glory days.
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Issue with Window Managers persists (for me) with latest 5.12.4.
Both linux-lts and linux-hardened working fine.
we can fix the boot order for grub also from chrooted_cleaner_scriptright after calamares is ready with installing … this would be easy
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So, why not just continue to run the lts kernel?
At what point do we start closing in on being a beginner distro instead of an intermediate user distro? I would assume all intermediate users know how to install and switch to the lts to diagnose a kernel update problem. Especially with the akm GUI built in.
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