After much investigation, I've finally got Wifi working in my new machine.
There were 2 serious problems :
the firmware had been updated to a new version number (7961 from 7921),
which I was able to find in System Rescue /lib/firmware
(it wasn't in the latest Gentoo firmware pkg).
Then many tr
On Saturday, 3 June 2023 01:17:08 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> The password looks like 'M343477M' (all different characters).
> It works with SR + Mint.
Yes, this will work with wpa_supplicant.
> Today's investigations :
>
> (1) I copied the BT- firmware ( 2 files) from SR
> into /lib/firmware/me
230602 Michael wrote:
> On Friday, 2 June 2023 07:16:41 BST Philip Webb wrote:
>> #wpa_supplicant.conf 230601
>>
>> network={
>> ssid=""
>> bssid=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
>> proto=RSN
>> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>> pairwise=CCMP
>> auth_alg=OPEN
>> group=CCMP
>> psk=""
>> ieee80211w=2
>>
On Friday, 2 June 2023 07:16:41 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> 230601 Lee K wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> What is still not good is that that interface has "NO-CARRIER".
> >> Also, 'rc-status' after a reboot shows wpa_supplicant as STOPPED.
> >>
> >> 'rc-
On Friday, 2 June 2023 04:09:50 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> Thanks for all the help so far.
>
> I've solved the firmware problem.
> The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware
> nor in the masked version (after much hassle unmasking it),
> but they are in both System Resc
230601 Lee K wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> What is still not good is that that interface has "NO-CARRIER".
>> Also, 'rc-status' after a reboot shows wpa_supplicant as STOPPED.
>>
>> 'rc-service -v wpa_supplicant start' gets it STARTED,
>> but 'ip a' sti
230601 Lee K wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Thanks for all the help so far.
> >
> > I've solved the firmware problem.
> > The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware
> > nor in the masked version (after much hassle unmasking i
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> Thanks for all the help so far.
>
> I've solved the firmware problem.
> The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware
> nor in the masked version (after much hassle unmasking it),
> but they are in both Syste
Thanks for all the help so far.
I've solved the firmware problem.
The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware
nor in the masked version (after much hassle unmasking it),
but they are in both System Rescue + Mint /lib/firmware/mediatek .
They are versions 7922 and 79
On Thursday, 1 June 2023 19:54:08 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> 230531 Michael wrote:
> > It seems you have the correct module for the mediatek driver installed,
> > since lshw on gentoo shows it being used. What is not shown is the
> > firmware. Now, to bottom out the firmware issue.
> > You need to sp
230531 Michael wrote:
> It seems you have the correct module for the mediatek driver installed,
> since lshw on gentoo shows it being used. What is not shown is the firmware.
> Now, to bottom out the firmware issue.
> You need to specify the firmware path in your kernel, as explained here.
> By def
Hi Philip,
On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:06:19 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> 230531 Mark Dymek wrote:
> > are you installing Gentoo or is this on a running system ?
> > because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant .
> > i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing Gentoo.
> > once i had
230531 Mark Dymek wrote:
> are you installing Gentoo or is this on a running system ?
> because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant .
> i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing Gentoo.
> once i had everything installed though it worked.
That's interesting, but it doesn't take
230531 Jack wrote:
> On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote:
>> Also, under "configuration:", Mint says "broadcast=yes, driver=nt7921e,
> Is there a typo? Above says driver nt7921e (first letter N)
>> driver_version=5.15.0-generic, firmware=__91-20220209 150915,
>> latency=0, multicast=yes, w
are you installing gentoo or is this on a running system? because the minimal
installer only uses wpa_supplicant i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was
installing gentoo. once i had everything installed though it worked.
On Wed, May 31, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> Thanks to Michael
On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote:
Thanks to Michael for his helpful advice.
I've narrowed the problem down somewhat,
but Wifi still doesn't work on Gentoo, tho' it does on Mint + SR.
The difference seems to be that when I enter 'lshw -class network' in Mint,
I get "network | description : Wir
Thanks to Michael for his helpful advice.
I've narrowed the problem down somewhat,
but Wifi still doesn't work on Gentoo, tho' it does on Mint + SR.
The difference seems to be that when I enter 'lshw -class network' in Mint,
I get "network | description : Wireless interface ... ",
but in Gentoo it
On Tuesday, 30 May 2023 11:21:21 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> 230511 Michael wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working
> >> at this early point in the installation process ?
> >
> > 1. Check if the appropriate firmware is avail
230511 Michael wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working
>> at this early point in the installation process ?
> 1. Check if the appropriate firmware is available,
> otherwise fetch it from here and untar it in /lib/firmware:
> h
230511 Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote:
>> There is another related question : is there a way
>> to make both connections simultaneously & switch between them ?
> If you configure them both in /etc/conf.d/net with different priorities, both
> will come up a
On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote:
> Thanks for both replies. 5 min after I sent my request last night,
> I realised that I sb able to access Wifi thro'out installation
> simply via the System Rescue connection, which finds the service easily
> & needs only the password to f
Thanks for both replies. 5 min after I sent my request last night,
I realised that I sb able to access Wifi thro'out installation
simply via the System Rescue connection, which finds the service easily
& needs only the password to finish the job. I do have a landline via DHCP,
but Wifi here is
On Thursday, 11 May 2023 08:22:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working at this early point
> > in the installation process ?
>
> There's an example of using WPA from the command line at
>
> https://nixo
On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working at this early point
> in the installation process ?
There's an example of using WPA from the command line at
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installation-manual-networking
--
Neil
Thanks again for the advice recently + earlier re my new machine (ANB6).
I've got the hardware working properly with Mageia (installed on HDD).
I've partitioned the drives ( NVMe M2 SSD + HDD ).
I've copied Stage 3 to the appropriate partition on the SSD.
I'm following the notes I made when I buil
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