Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live? [Partially Solved]
El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 14:04, Brian (<ad44@cityscape.co.uk>) escribió:
> 'ip a' should show all available interfaces.
user@debian:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1e:4f:d6:1e:70 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlx000d81af0249: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state
DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0d:81:af:02:49 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
El vie, 12 mar 2021 a las 18:19, Anssi Saari (<as@sci.fi>) escribió:
> Alternatively you can just unplug and plug the adapter after installing
> the firmware.
Done.
> But if you did this and it still doesn't work I'm pretty much out of
> ideas. Does dmesg report anything relevant to network or realtek? (...)
[ 1093.225158] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 1095.258963] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 1095.417361] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda,
idProduct=8172, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 1095.417364] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1095.417366] usb 1-3: Product: RTL8191S WLAN Adapter
[ 1095.417368] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
[ 1095.417369] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
[ 1095.418204] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[ 1095.418208] usb 1-3: r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[ 1095.418609] usb 1-3: r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[ 1095.822861] usb 1-3: r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
[ 1095.822864] usb 1-3: r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:0d:81:af:02:49
[ 1095.822866] usb 1-3: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[ 1095.826102] usb 1-3: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
[ 1095.840824] r8712u 1-3:1.0 wlx000d81af0249: renamed from wlan0
Thank you two, and everyone else. Now I can send this message from Debian.
I saw the network interface number 4 [1] after installing and running
the firmware only.
Then, dmesg showed that last line that told me the "wlan0" (i.e. the
wireless device)
was instead "wlx000d81af0249".
So, I opened Wicd one more time to see if something happened, I clicked on
preferences and saw that the wireless network interface field was empty.
I wondered what would happen if I wrote wlx000d81af0249 [1] there.
So I did it and boom! It works!
I wonder why Wicd doesn't detect the wireless interface automatically.
Was it designed to be configured manually or is it a bug?
Anyway, is there some way to automate this? I saw there was that command
"ip link set <interface> up" but it doesn't make Wicd recognize the interface
automatically.
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