TLDR; I recently had a failure installing i3 that has caused my wi-fi to stop working. I've cross-posted this https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-wifi-icon...vity/37966 

I recently tried to install i3 window manager and it caused some serious problems. I was unable to uninstall it with help from here https://forum.manjaro.org/t/will-not-boo...tall/37473 but afterwards the internet did not work. Actually it did not work while i3 was still installed so I think this installation failure caused the issue, not removing i3. This i3 thing really screwed things up.
I read this post https://forum.manjaro.org/t/unable-to-fi...ns/17232/2 and it seems I have the same behavior, on the same machine. But I do not get the errors when trying to reinstall drivers or restart the NetworkManager, but instead nothing happens. There is output with --verbose but I mean there is no change in the operation.
There is no wifi icon on the desktop and I can’t figure out how to get to the networking stuff. I’m new to Linux. From the desktop is there anything I can search? The only networking thing that comes up in Network Interfaces which I don’t know how to use. Where can I see network connections?
I’m not able to get 

After reading about @mara  (a.k.a. sndwvs) making the excellent Slarm64 unofficial port of Slackware to ARM64 and that member @KRT (a.k.a. shelldweller) got it working on the Pinebook, I just had to see what I could do with it on my new PinePhone!

I'm excited to say that, with a lot of tinkering, it works rather nicely.

• I downloaded a disk image of Slarm64 for the Pinebook with XFCE and the 5.9.3 kernel, as provided here.
  

• I wrote the image to my SD card and then followed Pine's instructions for installing other ARM64 distributions.
  

• I used GParted to move the root partition and add a boot partition (it turned out that step may be unnecessary).
  

• My Pinephone is the 3GB Manjaro CE edition and I got Slarm64 running by emptying the Slarm64 /boot/ folder and copying in the boot files from Manjaro, including the Manjaro kernel, version 5.9.1-4 (initially I put these files on the boot partition, but u-boot seems to pick them up from the root partition first, I guess because mine has a lower number).
  

• I also copied the kernel modules into /lib/modules
  

• I updated /etc/fstab to reflect my partitions.
  

• I used the dd command to write the u-boot image that came with Manjaro at the correct 8kb location on the SD card.
  

• I had to alter /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf, mainly because when u-boot boots from the Slarm64 root partition, the kernel Image and initramfs file are found in the "/boot/" subdirectory rather than the root of the boot partition so I had to fix the paths. It just gives up and boots Manjaro if they're wrong.
  

(03-16-2020, 08:24 AM)KRT Wrote: I do not think that Slarm64 has received the official blessing from either Pat Volkerding or Stuart Winter, so I do not think this is "official" Slackware in that sense.

hey everyone ubuntu touch is booting an I can send txt however I cannot make or receive calls. I have a new 128gb SD sandisk extreme plus. When I turn on the phone it boots fully to Ubuntu there is a notification banner that pops down from the top of screen reading storage device not found or something like that and carries out txt-sms fine and shows tmobile. Looks like Im almost there just missing the phone. It will not call out

Hey everyone,

I tried PM'ing @fire219 about this but without a response so maybe you guys can help me.

I'm not receiving any email notifications from this forum, and not just this forum. I've contacted my email provider but they said they'll need to know which address the emails are getting sent from (Whatever that means... Do they [url=https://forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=606][/url]need the "From:" address from the header, the address from the SMTP envelope? Who knows!), apparently having the domain from which the email was sent is not enough.

Could one of you be so kind and give me some info about how the emails from the forums look, maybe post the message as an mbox (stripped of all the private info of course)? Any help would be appreciated!

I recently encountered this phone brand since I was continuously searching the internet to buy a new phone. Is PinePhone based on Android OS or a different OS? I'm familiar with Android and I even don't know how to use other operating systems. I would be grateful if someone could give me some details/recommendations about this in simple since I'm unable to understand deeply explained description.

Hi,

I'm brand new to Linux and the Pinebook Pro (Manjaro) machine, My question is, How do I download the TOR browser (As the TOR website will not enable me to download it) and can I use a Virtual Machine to add an additional layer of security? If so then which one?

Many thanks in advanced

Hi all,

I was wondering if we could get an update about the following items:

- Has any decision about the future of the PineCom been made? This device seems quite interesting, I would really like to know what the general theme that was taken from the feedback was.

- Is there any update about shipping the new batch of PineTabs? I remember that there was some LCD panel shortage, is this still the case? Is there any update on this situation and when it might resolve?

- Is there some update about the M.2 adapters for the PineTab? It was already looking pretty mature since some time ago, but I guess you want to manufacture these when you get the next batch of PineTabs cooking?

Thanks in advance,

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Hey guys, i just tried to insert a sd card into my pinephone and it started smoking. For real. There was a smell of burning plastic and the card was hot like a hell. I imeddiaetly removed the battery, tried to power on the phone again and it booted up and worked just fine. then i tried to insert another sd card and it worked fine as well. Disks utility detected it normally and was able to read all the partitions correctly. The question is: what did just happen? This card was 100% operational, I used it a lot with my PBP with no problem. I reckon that card is dead now, but i am glad that my pinephone is undamaged. What could have sparked such a violent reaction and what should I do to prevent similar accidents in the future?

  Hello Pine64,

 Will the 1.2b revision, with standard 2gb ram 16gb eMMC mainboard  become
available in the store ...
                              Hopefully soon ?

Hello again Pine64 forums.
The very nice wdt helped me earlier this week on an issue with my Pinebook Pro not powering on here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12057

I had Manjaro 20.04 on the eMMC which I got working. I decided to ditro hop over to Ubuntu 18.04 (LXDE) using a microSD card. It worked fine, booted up & I was doing some fairly simple things on it. I decided to run `sudo apt upgrade` on the distro & it wouldn't reboot properly. Deciding I should leave well enough alone I tried to boot back to Manjaro & couldn't. I figured since my mirrors were out of date & I should just reflash the eMMC to Manjaro 20.10 - I did so via Etcher but I couldn't boot; just the red power light at power on. Having run into this & corrected with wdt, I thought it was a uboot issue. I wanted to follow instructions from wdt at my previous post but my microSD card with the original factory image is also not booting.

So, in short here's what I've tried to get any kind of video output:

• Booting manjaro from microSD cards (2 diff models)
  
• Booting debian from microSD cards
  
• Booting from debian, manjaro, or Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 from microSD cards
  
• After all that failed I removed the eMMC & tried booting to each of those OSes off the microSD cards.
  
• I repeated the same boot tests using the eMMC after reconnecting the eMCC (I flash it via an eMMC to microSD to USB adapter, which connects to my computer), and not using any microSD cards.
  
• I disconnected the battery & used only the AC adapter as well, retrying attempts to boot to each eMMC and microSD without success. The system simply sits at a black screen & red power button, or with no indication of power at all.