Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .
Albretch Mueller wrote:
> since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently
> wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After
> downloading and installing the required firmware:
>
> $ sudo dpkg --install firmware-atheros_20210315-3_all.deb
> Selecting previously unselected package firmware-atheros.
> (Reading database ... 233435 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack firmware-atheros_20210315-3_all.deb ...
> Unpacking firmware-atheros (20210315-3) ...
> Setting up firmware-atheros (20210315-3) ...
> $
>
> I see:
>
> $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware
> [ 1.357329] i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: failed to load
> i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin (-2)
> [ 1.357334] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
> for information about missing firmware
> [ 1.357338] i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for
> i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin failed with error -2
> [ 1.357341] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Failed to load DMC firmware
> i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin. Disabling runtime power management.
> [ 1.357342] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] DMC firmware homepage:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915
> [ 44.920667] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware regulatory.db
> [ 44.920819] platform regulatory.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware regulatory.db.p7s
> [ 48.091722] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091761] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:02:00.0.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091783] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091804] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-5.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091825] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-4.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091844] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-3.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091865] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-2.bin (-2)
> [ 48.091870] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Failed to find firmware-N.bin
> (N between 2 and 6) from ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0: -2
> [ 48.091874] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
> [ 88.181411] r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load
> rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw (-2)
> [ 88.181497] r8169 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw failed with error -2
> [ 88.181513] r8169 0000:01:00.0: Unable to load firmware
> rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw (-2)
> $
>
> but I am not sure if those dmesgs relating to the kind of card I have
> (QCA9377) were from the initial start of DL (I am running a long
> process I should not stop to test that), but I am sure you will easily
> make sense of it.
>
> Why would the installation of that firmware fail and how do I fix or
> troubleshoot that more in depth?
It probably has not been loaded at all yet -- the messages you
are seeing are from the first 88.2 seconds after boot.
-dsr-
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