Troubleshooting • pi5 on Argon NEO 5 Wi-Fi is not working

Hello guys,

I have a brand new Raspberry Pi 5 8Gb mounted on Argon NEO 5 case with nvme SSD kingston of 1Tb. This machine is powered by official 27W USB-C power supply on 110V 60Hz network. There is no other peripherals.

The system works pretty well if Ethernet cable plugged in. I am using a headless Debian Bookworm version updated running on SD Card.

The problem comes when I unplug the Ethernet cable and try to use wifi network. The wifi simply doesn't connect. I have placed some logs below.

Now comes what is intriguing me, if I power off and unplug the nvme PCIe flex cable (which turns off the SSD), then the Wi-Fi works properly. I suspect any electromagnetic interference between ssd and wifi or a power supply issue but no evidence about that. If you could help me troubleshoot this I will appreciate.

Regards,
Marcos


$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mmcblk0 179:0 0 58.3G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 57.8G 0 part /
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 931G 0 part

This is NetworkManager journal when wifi does not connects:

Mar 28 15:23:42 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186222.8533] device (docker0): Activation: successful, device activated.
Mar 28 15:23:46 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186226.1051] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> associating
Mar 28 15:23:46 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186226.1051] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: scanning -> associating
Mar 28 15:23:46 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186226.5181] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associating -> disconnected
Mar 28 15:23:46 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186226.5181] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: associating -> disconnected
Mar 28 15:23:56 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186236.5361] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Mar 28 15:23:56 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186236.5362] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Mar 28 15:24:01 machine NetworkManager[641]: <warn> [1743186241.7663] device (wlan0): Activation: (wifi) association took too long
Mar 28 15:24:01 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186241.7663] device (wlan0): state change: config -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Mar 28 15:24:01 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186241.7667] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_LOCAL
Mar 28 15:24:01 machine NetworkManager[641]: <warn> [1743186241.7669] device (wlan0): Activation: failed for connection 'Wi-Fi-network'
Mar 28 15:24:01 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186241.7671] device (wlan0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Mar 28 15:24:02 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186242.4520] manager: startup complete
Mar 28 15:24:08 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186248.3640] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> disconnected
Mar 28 15:24:08 machine NetworkManager[641]: <info> [1743186248.3641] device (p2p-dev-wlan0): supplicant management interface state: scanning -> disconnected

Statistics: Posted by l1m40 — Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:55 pm

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