On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:31:21AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > One thing I should've mentioned in the first post is that booting from > the minimal install USB, wlan0 does show up, so the hardware works.
That's because the "minimal" install disk actually has quite a lot of stuff
installed/enabled, to support all (or, as much as possible) common hardware in a
live environment, as this generally runs before the point at which the user can
configure their own kernel.
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 05:59:37AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote
> > It doesn't look like it's loading the firmware. Are there any obvious
> > firmware-loading errors in dmesg ?
>
> What is ASPM and what is error -2? BTW, on my first attempt, when I
> accidentally tried a non-existant firmware path, the kernel compile died
> early on. Here is what I get in dmesg with ucode 8.83.5.1-1
Error -2 means that it can't find the file: "ENOENT 2 No such file or
directory". You should install the firmware through `sys-kernel/linux-firmware`,
and then edit your .config accordingly (as Michael mentioned, no subdirectories
are added by the Gentoo package):
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode"
> > That looks fine, although why are you using such an outdated version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.
>
> The way the items lined up on the webpage, I mis-interpreted it to
> mean one driver for 5100AGN, one for 5300AGN, and one for 5350AGN. See
> attachment.
The table is slightly misleading, but I think that any of the listed firmware
packages can work for any of the listed devices, and the only distinction
between the files is the supported kernel versions. Thus, you should be able to
safely use the latest version.
> > 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.
>
> I'll do that next if there's nothing obvious here.
Yes, that is your next step. Append the appropriate entries to your savedconfig
file and emerge `linux-firmware` with `savedconfig`:
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
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