It takes a long time to establish a WiFi connection [Video added]

General system Newbie
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$ systemd-analyze blame
10.649s man-db.service
 1.314s updatedb.service
 1.184s systemd-random-seed.service
  777ms lvm2-monitor.service
  429ms tlp.service
  350ms firewalld.service
  340ms dev-sdb2.device
  309ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-c1ab3d60\x2d2563\x2d4296\x2d9f2d\x2dae38bdfdc73e.service
  291ms iwd.service
  232ms udisks2.service
  215ms home-home-seagate.mount
  137ms accounts-daemon.service
  114ms upower.service
  110ms polkit.service
   99ms systemd-resolved.service
   93ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
   90ms ldconfig.service
   85ms user@1000.service
   74ms avahi-daemon.service
   70ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
   66ms systemd-logind.service
   65ms systemd-journald.service
   62ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-28A9\x2d696D.service
   57ms systemd-networkd.service
   53ms logrotate.service
   52ms NetworkManager.service
   48ms systemd-udevd.service
   47ms modprobe@drm.service
   47ms lightdm.service
   42ms systemd-timesyncd.service
   42ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6ed67ed9\x2d911d\x2d4a94\x2d99b5\x2d9942d36b032e.service
   39ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
   36ms systemd-sysusers.service
   28ms systemd-modules-load.service
   27ms kmod-static-nodes.service
   26ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
   25ms modprobe@configfs.service
   24ms modprobe@fuse.service
   22ms boot-efi.mount
   22ms dev-hugepages.mount
   21ms dev-mqueue.mount
   20ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
   19ms wpa_supplicant.service
   17ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
   15ms bluetooth.service
   13ms systemd-remount-fs.service
   12ms home.mount
   11ms systemd-sysctl.service
   11ms tmp.mount
   10ms systemd-update-utmp.service
    9ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
    8ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
    8ms alsa-restore.service
    7ms sys-kernel-config.mount
    6ms systemd-user-sessions.service
    6ms systemd-journal-flush.service
    5ms systemd-rfkill.service
    4ms systemd-update-done.service
    3ms rtkit-daemon.service
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I notice in your output you don’t have a driver loaded for the ethernet? Is there a reason for that?
What driver did you install for the WiFi specifically? From the AUR? Or does it load automatically as a kernel module?

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I am using a 4G router (see attached image) which has no ethernet port. The only way to connect is WiFi so I have never used my ethernet so I don’t know.

I didn’t install any WiFi driver manually. This WiFi worked out of the box previously under LMDE & now under EndeavourOS/Arch

jio router

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That’s fine I’m just asking. Even though your router doesn’t have an Ethernet port it does show Ethernet which would normally have a driver loaded for it. It would either use the r8168 package in EndeavourOS or the r8169 kernel module on boot. So it just seems strange that it lists no driver. But i understand you only have WiFi access.

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debugging would may give more info then searching for random solutions replacing hardware or software…

open a terminal and watch the journal:
journalctl -f > journal.log
this will start writing log to the file journal.log …
now disconnect wifi and reconnect wait till it is connected and do nothing else while this time… then Ctrl+x to kill the logwrite in terminal and give us the log:

cat journal.log | eos-sendlog this will pastebin it and gives a short url that links to the pastebiin.

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You can try adding the following to

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_rand_mac.conf

add

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
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https://clbin.com/FvvBB

I must mention one thing which makes this issue even more difficult to solve. Every time I boot NM always takes a long time to connect but if I manually disconnect/reconnect the connection time is random. Sometimes its long & sometimes fast(normal).

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Okay I will add that line now but to make sure it worked I must reboot. I will reply as soon as I reboot.

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@ricklinux

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_rand_mac.conf

This file didn’t exist so I created it & added that line. Is this acceptable ?

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Yes that’s what you do.

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@arch_lover
I guess it doesn’t work since i don’t see you back?

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No its not that. As I said I need to reboot to confirm if that solution worked. I am working on a Libreoffice doc. My work is almost done. I will reboot & reply withing 5 mins.

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@ricklinux
It worked. Thanks a lot.

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Well hopefully it’s stay’s working! :grin:

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Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=firewalld:1;filter_INPUT_ZONES:151 family=1 entries=311 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=firewalld:1;nat_POSTROUTING_ZONES:139 family=1 entries=312 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=firewalld:1;filter_FORWARD_ZONES:162 family=1 entries=313 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=firewalld:1;nat_PREROUTING_ZONES:134 family=1 entries=314 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=firewalld:1;mangle_PREROUTING_ZONES:129 family=1 entries=315 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: NETFILTER_CFG table=?:0;?:0 family=0 entries=11 op=nft_register_gen pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit[384]: SYSCALL arch=c000003e syscall=46 success=yes exit=416 a0=6 a1=79647b6c5170 a2=0 a3=79647b6b409c items=0 ppid=1 pid=384 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="firewalld" exe="/usr/bin/python3.9" key=(null)
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system audit: PROCTITLE proctitle=2F7573722F62696E2F707974686F6E002F7573722F62696E2F6669726577616C6C64002D2D6E6F666F726B002D2D6E6F706964
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system kernel: audit: type=1325 audit(1628604715.032:254): table=firewalld:1;filter_INPUT_ZONES:151 family=1 entries=311 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system kernel: audit: type=1325 audit(1628604715.032:254): table=firewalld:1;nat_POSTROUTING_ZONES:139 family=1 entries=312 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system kernel: audit: type=1325 audit(1628604715.032:254): table=firewalld:1;filter_FORWARD_ZONES:162 family=1 entries=313 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system kernel: audit: type=1325 audit(1628604715.032:254): table=firewalld:1;nat_PREROUTING_ZONES:134 family=1 entries=314 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"
Aug 10 19:41:55 home-system kernel: audit: type=1325 audit(1628604715.032:254): table=firewalld:1;mangle_PREROUTING_ZONES:129 family=1 entries=315 op=nft_unregister_rule pid=384 comm="firewalld"

using local firewall?

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Yes, Nfatables with the FirewallD frontend.

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check firewall config then to make sure it is not causing the issue

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The problem is solved using this method.

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Sorry @ricklinux & everyone adding that line didn’t fix the issue. Troubleshooting this is quite frustrating coz its not constant.

@joekamprad
I don’t think the firewall is causing this coz I am facing this problem since a fresh install of EndeavourOS. At that point nothing other than what is included by default was installed.

Some else too was facing this issue & that too under Arch but sadly no solution was found. Please read this >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131884

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It’s interesting to note that the last message in that thread suggests wicd-gtk which uses icd as a backend. It’s pretty much the same solution I came to by installing networkmanager-icd.