Debian has always had (negative) strong views about non-free drivers, and I assume Devuan is no better. And Wifi drivers are often "non-free." I use Debian heavily, so I can make suggestions about that - although I can't address either Devuan or your specific hardware. For Debian, what I often have to do is to spend some time A) determining the type of wireless device, and B) installing the drivers for it. `lsusb` is your friend (also try `lspci`). This lists out your USB devices (or PCI devices). You should be able to spot the Wifi. Here are a couple examples from two of my machines: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter This is a USB device that was detected and worked out-of-the-box by Debian, much to my surprise. 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78) This is a PCI device, and required some work. I hope you have a USB-to-Ethernet dongle that works so that you can easily search and install packages on the machine that has the problematic Wifi. Use a browser to search for "Debian" and "Intel 8265" (or "8275"). The answer in this case turned out to be to install the "firmware-iwlwifi" package which probably came from the "non-free" package repository. Even if it didn't, when dealing with Wifi you definitely want to have the "non-free" packages available. In this example case, simply installing the package was enough to get the Wifi working after a reboot. In less fortunate cases, you may have to muck around with `insmod` and the start-up scripts. Read the pages you find about the particular hardware and driver and Debian/Devuan carefully. It's a PITA, but unless you have an exceptionally obscure Wifi device, it's usually fairly straight-forward. Good luck. On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 at 10:34, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 12:28 AM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2024-10-04 18:05, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Anyone have any ideas on how to get wlan0 running?
What Linux(?) distro did you install on the laptop?
Installed devuan daedalus (like debian stable except no systemd).
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All the hardware features I tried are working. I heard an odd noise from the laptop. The fan sounds like it needs to be changed. I was hoping for longer battery life compared to my Windows based laptop (that runs at 100% CPU most of the time). The laptop arrived with 92% battery life and I ran it for about 9 hours today.
Dunno what to do but connman refuses to connect.
RF-kill was alive and well - - - I just sent it away (permanently!). When I use #ip link set wlan0 up there is no result (normal) but when I go #ip link show wlan0 I'm still getting wlan0: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, DYNAMIC,UP> mtu,1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DORMANT group default glen 1000
so - - - how do I kick this thing in the pants to get wlan0 working?
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