Re: iwlwifi: i7260 does not load firmware properly/wifi not working
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 23:54:56 UTC
Sorry for the top-post, but can this make it into 13.1 at this late date? On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:53 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 6:23 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb < > bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Mar 2022, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: >> >> > There is a lot of reasons for having drivers compiled into the kernel >> > or loaded by loader(8), for me one is to have a small mfsroot (either >> > embedded or not) without any kernel modules. >> >> Yeah, I have those myself plenty. Even then I can often load >> drivers after the facts from e.g. NFS root, or the partition holding >> /boot/kernel mounted ro. But those are "custom" setups. >> >> > I'd argue that if a driver can't be loaded via loader or compiled into >> > the kernel it's a bug that we have to fix (and yes I know this is the >> > case for DRM). >> >> Wireless drivers can still be loaded from loader; in those cases >> people just need to load the appropriate firmware manually as well. >> >> What I am trying to say is that it should just not be the default >> as most users on a laptop or desktop don't actually need the driver to >> get to multi-user. >> >> /bz >> >> -- >> Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 >> >> Ouch! Never thought to confirm that iwlwifi was in devd.conf! That seems > to have fixed it. > > N.B. I simply hand edited the patch (add iwlwifi and delete wi) and > rebooted. It worked correctly and, for the first time, the network came up > properly with no intervention. The patch should have fixed the problem and > with only a single test, it appears that it did. > > Thanks! > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683