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RIA77
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Hello, and thank you for your help.
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.126 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 7a:f3:b9:10:ff:66 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 874 bytes 496435 (484.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 833 bytes 134580 (131.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Internet is working in chroot as it should.
btrtl 16384 1 btusb
bluetooth 647168 26 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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My card is
Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
How can I install drivers into kernel ? |
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| Quote: | Symbol: IWLWIFI [=n]
Type : tristate
Defined at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Kconfig:2
Prompt: Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)
Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] && PCI [=y] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && \
CFG80211 [=m]
Location:
-> Device Drivers
-> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
-> Wireless LAN (WLAN [=y])
-> Intel devices (WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL [=y])
Selects: FW_LOADER [=y]
Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi)
*** WARNING: iwlwifi is useless without IWLDVM or IWLMVM *** |
In the Warning above, you will also need to ensure one of either IWLDVM or IWLMVM is also enabled, in kernel menuconfig you can hit the / key to enter search mode, plug in IWLDVM and hit enter to get a link to that setting which can be found hitting the number key shown next to the setting you want to change (it's just under the iwlwifi setting). If using menuconfig, make use of the help link on any page to get more information, like the need to also install firmware. Since wireless is one of the last hardware items enabled in the boot process, there should be no need to include the firmware in the kernel or initramfs, nor do you need to have the driver built into the kernel, it is better enabled as a module.
Intel Wireless WiFi Link Next-Gen AGN
This option enables support for use with the following hardware:
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6250AGN Adapter
Intel 6000 Series Wi-Fi Adapters (6200AGN and 6300AGN)
Intel WiFi Link 1000BGN
Intel Wireless WiFi 5150AGN
Intel Wireless WiFi 5100AGN, 5300AGN, and 5350AGN
Intel 6005 Series Wi-Fi Adapters
Intel 6030 Series Wi-Fi Adapters
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6150BGN 2 Adapter
Intel 100 Series Wi-Fi Adapters (100BGN and 130BGN)
Intel 2000 Series Wi-Fi Adapters
Intel 7260 Wi-Fi Adapter
Intel 3160 Wi-Fi Adapter
Intel 7265 Wi-Fi Adapter
Intel 8260 Wi-Fi Adapter
Intel 3165 Wi-Fi Adapter |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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My driver is loaded as module, but I can't find any network, and it seems that Gentoo is not detecting wifi at all.
Found IWLDVM in kernel. |
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RIA77
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it's related to problems with wifi.
I can't login into Gentoo as a root.
I can log into terminal, but I can't log into system.
Driver for wifi is loaded, tried with lspci (as non-root).
But, when I execute lspci as a root in terminal, there's no any otput ?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| RIA77 wrote: | Maybe it's related to problems with wifi.
I can't login into Gentoo as a root.
I can log into terminal, but I can't log into system.
Driver for wifi is loaded, tried with lspci (as non-root).
But, when I execute lspci as a root in terminal, there's no any otput ?
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During installation while working from the installer CD you should have created your root user by simply changing password which sets the root password for the installed Gentoo. Assuming you did that, I'm guessing your user is not in the wheel group. The wheel group allows the user to switch user to root. Below is all the groups my user belongs to.
| Quote: | jo@hot ~ $ groups
lp wheel cdrom video usb users lpadmin systemd-journal portage plugdev scanner |
An example below showing how to add a user to a group and second example shows how to remove a user from a group. It assumes the user name is yo.
| Code: | gpasswd -a yo wheel
gpasswd -d yo wheel |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Thank you. I recompiled kernel, but system is not recognizing my wifi card.
I have added user to wheel group, can't login as a root.
Can't mount NTFS partitions. |
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RIA77
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Installed genkernel, genkernel all.
No changes for me.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:36 am Post subject: |
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Install gentoo-firmware 99% of all wireless cards require this, but I don't recall any warnings to this widely distrbuted.
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RIA77
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| You mean linux-firmware ? Which package ? |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:08 am Post subject: |
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RIA77,
See the Wiki for your wifi.
Its linux-firmware.
Install all of linux-firmware, its about 750Mb. You need not keep it all as once its installed, you get a configuration file.
Edit that to remove the things you don't want.
Subsequent builds will follow that file. Then one day you will need a new firmware file ...
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RIA77
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:34 am Post subject: |
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XFCE is not recognizing my wifi adapter, and it's not recognizing external TP link wifi card.
Installed linux-firmware-20210315, no changes at all. Thank you. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:21 am Post subject: |
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RIA77,
XFCE is not involved.
Its the kernel, firmware, userspace tools and the configuration that you provide.
If your wifi is not listed in
The problem space is limited to the kernel and firmware.
Until that much works, the userspace tools and the configuration cannot be used, so don't matter much.
In your Gentoo, save the following to files be doing the following commands as root.
| Code: | dmesg > /dmsg.txt
lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
ls -l /boot > /boot_not_mounted.txt
mount boot
uname -a > /uname.txt
ls -l /boot > /boot_mounted.txt |
Once you have internet connectivity, use wgetpaste to put those files onto a pasetbin site and post the links.
Also pastebin your kernel .config, its at /usr/src/linux/.config
When did you last build your kernel?
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RIA77
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:00 am Post subject: |
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I build gentoo kernel few days ago.
| Quote: | wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.121 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether aa:98:0a:8e:b7:43 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 284 bytes 333822 (325.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 269 bytes 35776 (34.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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| Quote: | lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -2 |
I only have root partition, not boot in fstab.
| Quote: | mount root
mount: root: can't find in /etc/fstab.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:08 am Post subject: |
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RIA77,
Post the output of . You need to be root.
Do you BIOS or EUFI boot?
I still need those pastebins I asked for to be able to help you.
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RIA77
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. Now i can restart and poweroff.
| Quote: | Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000LM014-1EJ1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2ae24151
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2045951 2043904 998M b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 2045952 65390591 63344640 30.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 65392638 1951473663 1886081026 899.4G 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 1951473664 1953521663 2048000 1000M 2 XENIX root
/dev/sda5 65392640 388818943 323426304 154.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 388820992 820385784 431564793 205.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 820387840 1163448312 343060473 163.6G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 1163450368 1187299327 23848960 11.4G 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1187303424 1238931455 51628032 24.6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 1238933504 1596491768 357558265 170.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda11 1596493824 1925654520 329160697 157G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda12 1925656576 1951473663 25817088 12.3G 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
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I use bios boot.
Gentoo is located on sda 9.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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RIA77,
Do not enable any DEBUG option in your kernel. DEBUGFS is OK.
DEBUG options are for kernel maintainers and are allowed to prevent normal operation of the code being debugged.
They must be off.
We still need | Code: | dmesg > /dmsg.txt
lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
uname -a > /uname.txt
ls -l /boot > /boot_mounted.txt |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. I don't know why it's enabled. I don't remember I enabled it.
| Quote: | devuan / # lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -2
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I chrooted into Gentoo, and there is no any otput regarding
dmesg > /dmsg.txt
uname -a > /uname.txt
ls -l /boot > /boot_mounted.txt |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Should we try lan connection ? I need wifi connection, but maybe lan will work ? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | dmesg > /dmsg.txt
lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
uname -a > /uname.txt
ls -l /boot > /boot_mounted.txt |
Remove the forward slash in the commands for them to work, see example below:
| Quote: | jo@hot~ $ lspci -nnk > /lspci.txt
bash: /lspci.txt: Permission denied
jo@hot~ $ lspci -nnk > lspci.txt
jo@hot~ $ dmesg > /dmsg.txt
bash: /dmsg.txt: Permission denied
jo@hot ~ $ dmesg > dmsg.txt
jo@hot ~ $ |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:33 am Post subject: |
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RIA77,
The no output is correct. You will have 3 files in the chroot called /dmsg.txt, /lspci.txt and /boot_mounted.txt.
From outside the chroot they will be at /mnt/gentoo once your root is mounted.
We need the diagnostic information when your gentoo is running, not from a chroot.
Run your gentoo, when wifi does not work.
Save the files.
Boot your devuan. Mount you gentoo, then pastebin the files.
We can use a wired LAN to fix wifi too. It will avoid lots of chrootts to pastebin data like this.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Wgetpaste uname does not work.
| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
We can use a wired LAN to fix wifi too. It will avoid lots of chrootts to pastebin data like this. |
Tried with lan, but system does not recognize any connection. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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RIA77,
Your wired and wireless interfaces are
| Code: | 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:10a1] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Lenovo QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet [17aa:3800]
08:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 [8086:0888] (rev c4)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN [8086:4262] |
Neither of them have any kernel drivers loaded.
Your boot_mounted.txt shows that you have two kernels. One dated Apr 3 15:04, the other Apr 4 10:03.
dmesg says | Code: | | [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.11.11-gentoo (root@devuan) (gcc (Gentoo Hardened 10.2.0-r5 p6) 10.2.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.35.2 p1) 2.35.2) #3 SMP Sun Apr 4 10:03:08 -00 2021 |
so you are running the newest kernel. That's good.
Putting 1969:10a1 Linux pci into a search engine, gives cateee.net as the first hit. It shows that the kernel option you need is CONFIG_ALX.
Your kernel .config pastebin shows so the code is built as a loadable module.
Boot your gentoo. As root, run that should load the driver for your wired interface.
should show the module loaded, unless there was an error.
Now we need to start the interface.
To find its name, look in
Pass the name to which should make wired networking work until you dhcp lease expires.
Run the command again to get a new lease.
Doing a similar search for 8086:0888 Linux pci tells that you need CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL in the kernel.
| Code: | | CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL=y |
Its there too. However, its a menu item. So more is needed.
This Debian Wiki page says that its iwlwifi. You have
dmesg says | Code: | [ 0.829787] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
[ 0.829903] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 0.830143] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode failed with error -2
[ 0.830152] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode failed with error -2
[ 0.830154] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[ 0.830155] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-2030-5
[ 0.830156] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-2030-6
[ 0.830157] iwlwifi 0000:08:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git |
So it cannot find the fimware.
Root is mounted here
| Code: | [ 2.454586] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none.
[ 2.458519] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:9. |
So the firmmare must be in the initrd or it will not be found.
You need linux-firmware to provide the fimware, then it needs to be included in the initrd so that iwlwifi can find it.
| Code: | | [ 9.360400] EXT4-fs (sda9): re-mounted. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none. |
Is root being mounted read/write.
How you include firmware in the initrd dependn on how you make the kernel and initrd.
There is no sign of any attempt to start your ethernet.
| Code: | [ 0.876447] snd_hda_intel 0000:01:00.1: no codecs found!
[ 0.881865] hdaudio hdaudioC1D0: Unable to bind the codec |
tells that there is a problem with sound too.
Lets make the wired network work first, then use that to fix wifi and sound.
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