Porteus

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 16:47**

Porteus System Info gives:

"No wireless device found"

The host is a Dell 3891 Inspiron desktop. I now have a half dozen Porteus 5.0 thumbdrives, none of which can detect my wireless card on the host computer. Thumbdrive with Porteus 5.0-x86_64, Xfce. Host is Xubuntu (Xfce) 22.04 LTS.

I ran $ sudo "lshw -C network" and got the following result:

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tux@DHS-win11:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for tux: 
  *-network                 
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 14.3
       bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
       logical name: wlp0s20f3
       version: 11
       serial: 88:d8:2e:6d:13:48
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.15.0-69-generic firmware=66.f1c864e0.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-66.u ip=10.0.0.14 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: iomemory:600-5ff irq:16 memory:6001114000-6001117fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: enp1s0
       version: 15
       serial: c0:25:a5:b8:fb:81
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-69-generic firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:6e804000-6e804fff memory:6e800000-6e803fff

Sean

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 17:37**

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dmesg | grep -Ei "wifi|wireless"

Try the latest Kernel Porteus Kernel Builder (Post by Blaze #93655)

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 17:39**

Hi sean.
Not bad if you try a new kernel from this post Porteus Kernel Builder (Пост Blaze #93655)

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 19:05**

Blaze,

Thanks;

1) Am I to use the crippled-sources module also?

2) Does the 64bit.config file need to be placed somewhere?

Not exactly sure how to use these.

Sean

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 20:18**

Hi sean.

000-kernel goes into the /porteus/base folder.
06-crippled-sources I put into the /porteus/options folder.
vmlinux goes into the /boot/syslinux folder.

Don't see a need for the 64bit.config file in Porteus. I think it's a Porteus Kernel Builder file.

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 20:56**

Blaze, Ed & babam,

Thank you fella's, you have scored a combined 300% ;-)

Thank you, I'm happy!

I know you are all volunteers, I know you need feedback & I realize working on this project is never ending. So I hope you don't feel this is picky, however, now Porteus System Info needs some sort of update as it continues to show "No wireless device found".

Have a Great Day!

Sean

Posted: **06 Apr 2023, 23:14**

@sean,

The reason wireless is not displayed is because of the way the search for the info is done. Using lspci doesn't show "Wireless", rather, it shows "Network".

You can fix this yourself if you're willing to edit the file /opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo. As root, open the file in an editor and change lines 229 and 233. Just switch "Wireless" for "Network".

You can backup the original first as root, then edit:

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cd /opt/porteus-scripts
cp xpsinfo xpsinfo.bak

Edit the original, save the changes, and open Porteus System Info and the wireless should be displayed. This bug always bothered me too, but I didn't look into it until you posted.

Posted: **07 Apr 2023, 00:29**

Sean try to run dmesg in porteus seem that you don't have the right firmware version
report here the log

Posted: **08 Apr 2023, 15:58**

sean,
1) no. crippled-sources and 05-devel need for compile from source. I use both modules by default.
2) no, *.config it's template for the future build kernel with fixed parameters.
you can ignore these files.

Posted: **13 Apr 2023, 06:09**

FYI Blaze:
This works.

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~#  uname -a
Linux porteus.example.net 6.2.10-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr  6 16:51:24 MSK 2023 x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20230217
002-xorg.xzm:20230217
002-xtra.xzm:20221211
003-cinnamon.xzm:20220925
initrd.xz:20220928

~#  ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm : Apr 6 09:57
001-core.xzm : Feb 17 00:24
002-xorg.xzm : Feb 17 00:32
002-xtra.xzm : Dec 11 01:13
003-cinnamon.xzm : Sep 25 2022
011-slapt-get-0.11.6-x86_64-2gv.xzm : Oct 29 13:51
07-printing-x86_64-2023-02-04.xzm : Feb 4 12:17