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Steam client doesn't open web content if system has no connection via NetworkManager

steamopen Distro Family: ArchWeb Component
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11804 · opened 2025-03-08 by Quriosity0 · updated 2025-07-07 · 1 comments · github
QQuriosity0 2025-03-08 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1738026274
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs:
    steamlogs.tar.gz
  • GPU: Intel

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When I try to open a store, community or profile page, this very page should open, because the connection is set up, though via iwd. But for some reason Steam gives the page http://error/, saying there is no internet connection (error 105).
But if I manage to connect to the internet via NetworkManager GUI, all the pages start loading. All other client functionality works fine in both cases

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1.Connect to internet via iwd
2.Open Steam client
3.Open Steam store

Sspacebanana420 2025-07-07 github

I can confirm this happens as well on Flatpak (Alpine Linux though not very relevant since it's Flatpak). With iwd+networkmanager Steam works fine, but when using iwd as standalone network implementation Steam refuses to launch the interface and eventually throws the error 0x3000.
iwd by itself works perfectly well and this problem only happens on Steam.

In a nutshell: networkmanager + iwd works perfectly well, but iwd as standalone network backend causes this issue

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