No wifi adapter found in 4 devices and counting ,,,

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No wifi adapter found in 4 devices and counting ,,,

Post#1 by felipy2k » 18 Nov 2022, 00:10

ive been looking for a distro with to ram option and seems that this last 5.0 version is perfect despite the wifi problem.
I have several machines in my home and in none of them Porteus 5.0 seems to find a wireless adapter out of the box.
even the old ones, like macbook air 2011...
is there any way to make it work?

thanks

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Post#2 by raja » 18 Nov 2022, 07:46

Due to compulsion of having a reasonable sized ISO , porteus does not include all firmwares for all sorts of devices in the market.

But, the fact is you can find your network device name and its firmware and add them to /lib/firmware.

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su
toor
lspci
This will list your network device

search for network,firmware in dmesg file in /var/log

Pick your firmware from the huge slackware formwares file

and add them to rootcopy folder.(create a foldesr "lib/firmware")

reboot to find your wifi.
Linux Kernel-4.4.272 -32 bit; Linux Kernel-5.4.185 - 64 bit

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No wifi adapter found in 4 devices and counting ,,,

Post#3 by Blaze » 18 Nov 2022, 13:01

Hi felipy2k.
You can try to update kernel Porteus Kernel Builder (Пост Blaze #91353) and test your wifi.
Linux 6.6.11-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 14 12:07:37 MSK 2024 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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No wifi adapter found in 4 devices and counting ,,,

Post#4 by felipy2k » 20 Nov 2022, 22:26

Thanks Raja and Blaze ... but with this kinda workaround i will never be able to boot and copy to ram right? need to be wired , fix and the do the trick.

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Post#5 by Ed_P » 20 Nov 2022, 23:10

Copy to ram includes modules in the /modules folder and those pointed to with the extramod= cheatcode. So, find the drivers needed, load them to prove they work then make a module out of them.

This is a script I use to make a wifi module for my Dell notebook.

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#!/bin/sh

# 5.18.8 WiFi files that support my new Dell.
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=87701&sid=903ab5878a5498cdf4ef52468ff41249#p87701
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=86386&sid=0ac300285a0bb779e3f2ae79ce934da5#p86386 
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=88885#p88885
# 71.ucode chosen as a result of this command's output when using a Blaze all inclusive module.
# dmesg | egrep 'ucode|firmware|fail|error|wifi'

if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
   echo -e "Enter root's password\033[1;31m"
   su -c "sh $0 $1"
   exit
fi
echo -e "\033[0m"; echo -en "\033]0;Make Mod\a" 

#set -x;

if [ -d /tmp/mod/ ]; then
   rm -rf /tmp/mod
fi
mkdir -p /tmp/mod
#cp -a --parents /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ*-71.ucode          /tmp/mod/
cp -a --parents /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-71.ucode  /tmp/mod/
cp -a --parents /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-jf-b0-71.ucode  /tmp/mod/
ls -R                                                        /tmp/mod/
read
dir2xzm   /tmp/mod/                   /tmp/Dellwifi2.xzm
rm  -rf   /tmp/mod/ && echo && ls -sh /tmp/*.xzm
read
Adjust to fit your needs.
Ed

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