aus9 wrote:ok booting up with cd but surely you can insert an USB stick and edit your boot cheat code to say something about
changes=/dev/sdb depending on whether you have one internal drive.
I am not booting from cd I am booting from ISO files, on my USB drive. And to the best of my knowledge the changes= cheatcode is not working in PN 3.5.
personally I think putting usb on a stick with a number of menu items is the way to go but I am not sure if this is that funny flashmedia PC or not
The HP is not a flashmedia PC, it's a 13.3" notebook.
2) so you have manually injected one firmware into /usr/lib/firmware?
No, because I thought I would have to reboot for it to be implemented and with changes= not working....
did you make a typo?
iwlwifi-7265D-15.ucode
No. Your
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=26219.0 link took me to posting
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?top ... #msg222796 at the bottom of the thread which linked to the newer version which I thought would be preferred.
So, does the changes= cheatcode work in PN3.5?
And if so how do I install the .ucode file? Is there some driver install command?
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Interesting.
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guest ~ $ ls /usr/lib/firmware/*.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode
There are already iwlwifi drivers in PN3.5!! A 7265D one even.
So, will the -15 one that I downloaded work or do I indeed need the -13 version??
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As you noted:
aus9 wrote:I thought it was
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[ 7.478325] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-7265D-13.ucode' failed
It looks like I need a *D-13 file not a
*-13 file.
Now to checkout out the changes= cheatcode.
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O M G What a joke.
So, I created a save.dat file, formatted as ext4, moved it to the USB flash drive, and changed the grub2 menu to add it to the boot parms.
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guest ~ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/newsave.dat bs=1024 count=320000
320000+0 records in
320000+0 records out
327680000 bytes (328 MB) copied, 0.406546 s, 806 MB/s
guest ~ $ mkfs.ext4 /tmp/newsave.dat
mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 320000 1k blocks and 80000 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 6b82a982-1467-416d-9630-d0d6fea1cd2c
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
guest ~ $ cp /tmp/newsave.dat /mnt/sdb1/porteus3.x/
I booted with the new save.dat file and copied it to the /usr/lib/firmware/ directory. Had some difficulty doing it. cp in terminal mode failed so I used the file manager to copy it. It failed also but the err msg at least told me why. Retired the cp command prefixed with sudo and a ls after words showed it worked. The new D-15 entry was green for some reason whereas the others were the normal white.
Rebooted.
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guest ~ $ cp /mnt/sdb1/porteus3.x/iwlwifi-7265D-15.ucode /usr/lib/firmware/
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-15.ucode’: File exists
guest ~ $ ls /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi*.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode
guest ~ $
guest ~ $ sudo cp /mnt/sdb1/porteus3.x/iwlwifi-7265D-15.ucode /usr/lib/firmware/
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
[sudo] password for guest:
guest ~ $ ls /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi*.ucode/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-105-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-135-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2000-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-5.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-12.ucode
/usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7265D-15.ucode
guest ~ $
The reboot showed the new driver in the /usr/lib/firmware/ directory. Saving changes works!!
But no network connection. But right clicking on the network manager applet icon shows Wi-Fi Connections, unfortunately as Disabled. Clicked on the Enable Wi-Fi option but the icon still shows it as being Disabled. repeated this a couple of times and suddenly I see my WiFi connections!!
I reboot to see if the WiFi connection would automatically connect. It doesn't.
Repeat the Enable WiFi, check the icon, many more times than I did the first time. Eventually WiFi connections, again.
Ok, time to update my posting. 8)
Oops!! NO BROWSER.
Maybe I will wait for 3.6.