Firmware issues with Intel Wireless AC 3165 (rev 81)

Cata

I've been trying to get WiFi working on a somewhat old HP laptop for the past 2 days.

So far, I have iwlwifi installed alongside linux-firmware and the kernel prepared according to a different post on here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1068662-start-0.html.

I'm going to include outputs from OpenRC, dmesg and lspci for good measure; however I believe the main problem is:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:39 pm Post subject:

Cata,

Welcome to Gentoo.

Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:05 pm Post subject:

Glad to join the community!

Before posting I did enable unused/obsolete symbols, in theory that should've helped somewhat. So that leaves us with either the conflicting builds or the system time problem.

Ifconfig -a formerly showed eno1, lo & sit0

Following https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev#Keep_classic_network_interface_naming
Appeared to have made wired ethernet kick into life. It went and polled dhcpcd through to timeout.

having followed that ifconfig -a displays eth0, lo, sit0; I'm fairly secure in stating that sit0 must be wireless lan, because it's replaced with wlo1 in the LiveCD.

Assuming I've managed to make 2 different builds, do I proceed by deleting all none *.old kernels in /boot?

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:12 pm Post subject:

Cata, sit0 is tunnel, it is not your wireless. Maybe you are not running the kernel you think you are, does 'uname -v' show expected build time?
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Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:17 pm Post subject:

Jaglover, you're correct on the kernel. I've been reinstalling since the morning, but it's dated yesterday afternoon.

Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:24 pm Post subject:

I'll try deleting everything not grub related or *.old in /boot, then reinstall the kernel

Result: kernel is still the one from yesterday afternoon. after make, make modules_install and make install; in addition to refreshing grub.cfg

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:34 pm Post subject:

There is a trap for newcomers in Gentoo default /etc/fstab, the /boot is not mounted automatically because it is not required to run the OS.
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Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:48 pm Post subject:

I've had /boot in the fstab since the beginning, after some experimentation rooting from some efi problems I had yesterday; I found that I hadn't fixed /boot's fstab entry.

The problem this post relates to still didn't stick, but /boot is since yesterday running on fat32, and now the fstab matches. The kernel is current and the problem initially remains.

Jaglover · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:52 pm Post subject:

You don't have to automount /boot, if you remember to mount it by hand every time when you install a new kernel.
Anyhow, you say your kernel is current now? What's the error. Please use wgetpaste to post the whole dmesg.
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Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:04 pm Post subject:

I figured I'd keep it automounting as a convenience while I'm getting my bearings, haven't gotten started with synaptics touchpad support as yet, or graphics. With WiFi I could at least research without a secondary laptop / phone.

current dmesg https://pastebin.com/dcGnsqvC

Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:10 pm Post subject:

Is it possible that LiveCD isn't on the same interface naming scheme as the result of making the udev touch?
I decided to try ifconfig again and it's got wlan0.

Edit: in trying this out, how do I get a command line internet configurer after compiling in AES?

Cata · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks anyway all of you, I'm getting back what's expected from the tests described in WiFi. The last bit to stop the wlo0 fails was reconfiguring the net stuff for OpenRC to use wlan0.