Fresh install and no WiFi connection on Acer Aspire5745g laptop

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If you feel confident you could replace wpa_supplicant with iwd and see if you have better luck.

If you don’t, don’t!

Can't connect to wifi with wpa_supplicant

@endeavourosuser I use iwd instead of wpa_supplicant since a while back. It works quite well in all may installs. If you want to try, here are the steps: sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S iwd Create the file iwd.conf sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/iwd.conf Copy and paste the following and save the file: [device] wifi.backend=iwd sudo systemctl stop wpa_supplicant sudo systemctl enable --now iwd sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager If your wifi works, then: sud…

Good luck!

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