On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:44:05 BST Paul Sopka wrote: > > On 09.04.24 15:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not > > > available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working, > > > but I've had no success so far. The wiki pages are many, confusing and > > > contradictory, so I'd like the panel's advice on the way to proceed. > > > > > > The first thing I tried was the traditional wpa_supplicant, which seemed > > > to go well - except that I couldn't get the link out of the DOWN state. > > > > > > Then I tried NetworkManager, and failed with that too. > > > > > > This is the hardware: > > > # lspci -v -s 00:14.3 > > > 00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi > > > (rev 01) > > > --->8 > > > > > > Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi > > > Kernel modules: iwlwifi > > > > > > And this is dmesg: > > > > > > $ dmesg | grep -i wifi > > > [ 1.622343] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux > > > [ 1.622432] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) > > > [ 1.625069] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x400410, cnv-id > > > 0x80400 wfpm id 0x80000020 > > > [ 1.625121] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 51f1/0094, rev=0x370, > > > rfid=0x2010d000 > > > [ 1.625313] Loading firmware: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-86.ucode > > > [ 1.626644] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: > > > 0.0.2.41 > > > [ 1.626902] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version > > > 86.fb5c9aeb.0 > > > so- a0-gf-a0-86.ucode op_mode iwlmvm > > > [ 1.643426] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 > > > 160MHz, REV=0x370 > > > [ 1.651382] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Invalid buffer destination > > > [ 1.809375] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20 > > > [ 1.809385] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f > > > [ 1.809394] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90 > > > [ 1.809401] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x0 > > > [ 1.809403] Loading firmware: iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0.pnvm > > > [ 1.810724] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded PNVM version e28bb9d7 > > > [ 1.810817] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4 > > > [ 1.825831] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x2010d000 > > > [ 1.897387] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: base HW address: f4:6d:3f:2a:33:3e > > > > > > Would net-wireless/iwd get me a bit further? > > > > > > Meanwhile, I'll keep on exploring with the results of sys-apps/hw-probe. > > > > Hey Peter > > > > This might be the wrong firmware being loaded. > > > > Are you building your the iwlwifi driver not as a module but directly > > into the kernel? > > > > Are you including your firmware into the kernel? > > > > If you do the above, try loading the driver as a module. Also enable > > both DVM and MVM Firmware support. > > > > Then emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware without USE=savedconfig. > > > > Finally reboot and check wther it works. If it works, check which > > firmware is loaded in your dmesg. > > I decided to establish a firm, clean system to fall back to after messing > about with the various wifi packages, so I built a fresh system building on > the merged-usr stage-3. I was surprised to find that kde-plasma/powerdevil > now insists on installing Network Manager unless I set USE=-wireless > against it. > > Why has this happened? Can't the poor power devil cope with any other way of > running WiFi?
The USE="wireless" flag on powerdevil is needed to save energy when the bluetooth/wireless chip is idle. This function could be useful with laptops running on battery. If you set USE="-networkmanager" in make.conf and USE="-wireless" for the powerdevil package you won't be bothered by this again.
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