From: Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714045937.7k3thcbxe7tvtbzb@ad-gentoo-main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200714041951.GA14890@waltdnes.org>
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:19:51AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> [thimk][root][~] lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100
> Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
>
> Note that that it's not being "loaded" as a module. I'm building into
> the kernel itself. Here's a snippet from .config
It doesn't look like it's loading the firmware. Are there any obvious firmware-
loading errors in dmesg ? If not, it might be worth installing `sys-apps/lshw`
and running `lshw -C network` to see kernel resource information regarding the
device.
> #
> # Firmware loader
> #
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
That looks fine, although why are you using such an outdated version of the
microcode ? For kernels 2.6.38+, you can use 8.83.5.1-1.
> > Did you install the iwlwifi microcode from sys-kernel/linux-firmware
> > (linux-firmware.git), or directly from kernel.org ?
>
> Directly from kernel.org itself. As I mentioned, the <Help> feature in
> "make menuconfig" pointed there. I basically ran...
>
> wget [link clipped]
Perhaps it would be better to install it from the Gentoo-provided firmware
package ? Amend /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware to include
the appropriate entries (listing at [1]), and emerge `linux-firmware` with the
`savedconfig` USE-flag.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-14 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-14 1:53 [gentoo-user] No wifi Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 2:12 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-14 4:19 ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 4:59 ` Ashley Dixon [this message]
2020-07-14 9:05 ` Michael
2020-07-14 16:23 ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 17:17 ` Jack
2020-07-14 17:20 ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 17:30 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-14 18:13 ` Michael
2020-07-14 20:02 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 14:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-14 14:45 ` Ashley Dixon
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