I managed to get my G502 wireless disconnected (Kernel Manager)

I was messing around with the CachyOS Kernel Manager, building an lts. (someone suggested having a second kernel is a good idea and I went with that, my boot loader is not showing a second option. My boot loader is QrEFInd) The Kernel Manager did build it and I did install it, I suppose.

However:
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I did not let the SU prompt go through on execute.

It is the last change I did and while I agree I was reckless and stupid and deserve my suffering, it doesn’t make much sense.

What I ended up doing was installing linux-cachyos 6.11.1-1. (I wish I had taken a screenshot of pacman saying downgrade to …)
I reverted that by a pacman -Syu - but the issue with my wireless mouse not connecting still persists. It does work when I plug in the USB though.

This is not to complain or get a fix for my system. This is to show that there probably is some kind of bug.
I will nuke this system tomorrow anyway, but I’m happy to provide any logs if that’s helpful, I’d just need to know which.

As far as I can see it as the end user: Yes I did build that optional kernel. It is installed “somehow”, but I don’t have the option to boot off it and my current kernel is now malfunctioning by missing the wireless link with my mouse.

uname -a:
Linux cachyos-x8664 6.11.1-2-cachyos #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:37:48 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

xone needed a repairing with the controller afterwards, that was easy. But no normal human would have any concept of why their mouse isn’t working.

I’m sorry to be the bringer of news, but if you didn’t enter in your password to elevate privileges then the kernel you are trying to install will NOT be installed.

That is precisely my point. If no modifications where made, what changed to make the wireless on the mouse stop working?

It could be anything, is the dongle fine?

Hey for everyone having a similar issue.

I could see in Solaar that the Mouse was no longer paired with the dongle. My attempts to pair it via Solaar failed tho.

How or why it lost its pairing I can not say.

I connected the G502 dongle to a Windows PC and managed to get it to pair with the control (Left, Middle and Right mouse button at the same time maybe helped, who knows) - It was from the installation screen of a USB image, so actually installing Windows was not needed.

Then reconnecting the Dongle to my CachyOS PC immediately worked.