230531 Michael wrote: > It seems you have the correct module for the mediatek driver installed, > since lshw on gentoo shows it being used. What is not shown is the firmware. > Now, to bottom out the firmware issue. > You need to specify the firmware path in your kernel, as explained here. > By default this would be under /lib/firmware/ : > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Linux_firmware
/lib/firmware/ is the dir with firmware files. > Hopefully, the requisite firmware file blobs will be present > in the latest stable 'sys-kernel/linux-firmware' package, > once you install it. It is already installed (230404) , presumably as part of Stage 3. That date shouldn't be too old. > dmesg will reveal if these are/not being loaded. 'dmesg | grep firmware' shows 10 identical lines : Loading firmware : mediatek/WIFI_MT7921_patch_mcu_1_2_hdr.bin : failed with error-2 . > you could keyword the trunk version hoping it contains what you need: > > ** 99999999 *l^bstd [compress-xz compress-zstd initramfs > +redistributable savedconfig unknown-license] ["initramfs? ( redistributable > ) > ?? ( compress-xz compress-zstd )"] I don't understand these lines (smile). > Or, you could compare what firmware files are loaded in Mint/SR ISOs > and copy these over to your Gentoo system for now SR shows no record of loading via 'dmesg' ; Mint ends with a lot of Bluetooth + mt7921e references. Mint mentions a firmware " ____010000 " ( 4 underlines ). > or you could fish around the Mediatek website for approp firmware files. no sign of firmware files. > Finally, set up a symlink from '/etc.init.d/net.wlp5s0' > to '/etc/init.d/net.lo' or whatever your card is detected, if not wlp5s0. i've created that link, but how is it supposed to help ? > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Networking/Introduction > and bring up your wireless network service: > 'rc-service -v net.wlp5s0 start' it gives "ERROR : fails to start". > Besides wpa_supplicant, other packages required like 'net-misc/netifrc', > 'net-misc/dhcpcd' should be installed, > if they have not been brought in as dependencies already. I've installed 'netifrc' ; 'dhcpcd' was installed long ago. > Please post back your dmesg and any terminal output, > if you are still having problems bringing up this wireless interface. > PS. This page which may or may not be still relevant > with the latest stable kernels, but you may want to take a look either way: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Chess/MT7921e So no progress today. I can try copying the firmware files from SR/Mint -- everything under /lib/firmware/ in SR/Mint & see if it helps. Your final note was a link to someone's pains using mt7921e, which he sad in the end was defective software. Further advice is still very welcome (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
