"Lic. Cardozo" <lcard...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hello y'all. > > A totally newbie and non english speaker here. > > My case is simple. Today I receive my new computer, a DELL Inspiron 7000 > 2-in-1, with AMD Ryzen 7, etc. > It came with Windows 10, and there everything worked fine. But I want to > start the *nix experience, > so I installed openBSD 6.3 -that was easy-, and when I tried to configure de > wireless device, I just can't. > I read the ifconfig man pages, internet forums, I even did research in that > subject in the previous weeks, > 'cause I know that the wireless connection was difficult to set in some > models. > Right now, I tried everything I can think about. > -I can't connect with a RJ45, because that doesn't come with my machine. > -I put all the firmware from the openBSD repository in an USB stick and > plugged it into the laptop > -I mounted /dev/sd1i /mnt > -I executed dmesg, and read that my wireless card was an Atheros... > -I ran " fw_update -p /mnt ". Just like that or specifing the name of the > Atheros firmware. > -Since that doesn't work, I extracted and copied manually the content of the > .tgz to /etc/firmware. > -And no matter how many times I did it, and how many times I reboot, when I > run "if config", I don't seem > to see the proper device recognized by the system. > Any idea, 'cause I don't know what else can I do. > > vendor "Atheros", unknown product 0x0042 (class network subclass > miscellaneous, rev 0x31) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
Hello Your wifi card is not configured, that's why it doesn't show up in ifconfig output. Except writing the missing driver there is nothing you can do here. You can still buy a cheap ~10€ usb wifi card or an usb->ethernet adapter.
