On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > Still no wireless, but one bit of progress. It seems that the kernel > does *NOT* like using subdirectories below /lib/firmware. I copied the > ucode file to /lib/firmware and changed the path appropriately before > building the kernel. Now dmesg at bootup shows... > > [ 0.757370] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux > [ 0.757372] Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation > [ 0.757478] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM > control > [ 0.757877] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 8.83.5.1 build > 33692 op_mode iwldvm > [ 0.757963] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled > [ 0.757967] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled > [ 0.757970] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled > [ 0.757973] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, > REV=0x54 > [ 0.761128] [drm] HPD interrupt storm detected on connector DP-3: > switching from hotplug detection to polling > [ 0.762028] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device > [ 0.795312] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
Guess what I was missing... "ifconfig" versus "ifconfig -a". One is not like the other. I feel stupid. I may be back with more questions. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Networking/Wireless looks rather intimidating, but wpa_supplicant seems to be the only choice. [thimk][root][~] ifconfig eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:27:13:64:6a:0d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 51929 bytes 3348657 (3.1 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 426 bytes 79801 (77.9 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xfc000000-fc020000 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 [thimk][root][~] ifconfig -a eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:27:13:64:6a:0d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 52008 bytes 3354071 (3.1 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 436 bytes 81829 (79.9 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xfc000000-fc020000 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 wlan0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:26:c6:4a:b4:92 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
