Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:20:39 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Does dmesg reveal anything untoward in the kernel failing to find > > or load this firmware? > > Still no wireless, but one bit of progress. It seems that the kernel > does *N

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
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 ker

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? > > I'm asking because the vanilla sys-kernel/linux-firmware does not create such > a subdirectory. This is what is listed here: > > $ ls -la /lib/firmware/iwlwif

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.14 12:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? Yes. It was created when I untarred the tarball from kernel.org [thimk][root][~] ll /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-ucod

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? Yes. It was created when I untarred the tarball from kernel.org [thimk][root][~] ll /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11 total 364 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
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/e

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Walter Dnes
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. 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 e

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 14 July 2020 05:59:37 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > 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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
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 Li

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:12:29AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote > Can you confirm that the correct firmware package is being loaded ? > `lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100` [thimk][root][~] lspci -k | grep -i -B 1 5100 Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:53:36PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > The last part of getting my Lenovo T400 fully functional is the wifi. > "lspci" shows "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless > 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection". I tried to follow instructions > but am getting

[gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
The last part of getting my Lenovo T400 fully functional is the wifi. "lspci" shows "03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection". I tried to follow instructions but am getting no sign of wifi at all. Both "ifconfig" and "ip" only show eth0 and