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Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 09 Feb 2015, 14:39
by The Darkness
so, the wifi on my notebook isn't recognized on porteus. don't know what to change. help?
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 10 Feb 2015, 15:07
by fanthom
hi The Darkness,
please generate 'psinfo' report -> upload to pastebin.com -> link here.
thanks
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 11 Feb 2015, 19:50
by The Darkness
Sorry it took so long.
Here's the pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/Mj2hT3dN
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 00:46
by brokenman
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rs/iwlwifi
You will need the firmware installed for the card to be recognized. Is this a tablet?
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 01:31
by The Darkness
Yes. How do I go about installing this on it?
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 01:56
by francois
Here is an example, I have a toshiba ultraslim z930 laptop with intel core i5. Adapt it to your computer.
1) My graphic card, VGA Intel Ivy Bridge was satisfied out of the box with porteus.
2) However wifi was not.
bash-4.2# dmesg | grep iwlwifi
...
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode' failed.
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode' failed.
...
3) Find a package with my wifi card: iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode or iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode. I found the following download site:
https://github.com/OpenELEC/wlan-firmware/
Download all the firmware. I did it with the zip file.
4) Extract the package with ark, find and copy the appropriate driver to /lib/firmware/ and use command 'modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi' to get it running:
bash-4.2# modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi
bash-4.2#
At next bootup you should be able to use wifi thru network management setting.
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 13:19
by fanthom
i cant see any network card (wired/wifi) in the lspci/lsmod output.
could you provide its name?
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 18:52
by The Darkness
fanthom wrote:i cant see any network card (wired/wifi) in the lspci/lsmod output.
could you provide its name?
It's a Dell Wireless 1537 802.11 a/g/n Adapter. Built in.
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 08:24
by fanthom
no hope for this card until upstream adds support for it and we bump the kernel (at least few months from now on i would say):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st13063793
Re: Dell Venue Pro 11 Wi-Fi not recognized
Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 13:30
by brokenman
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter ... driver-cab
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/ ... ro/drivers
It's a pity. The specs say it could have the intel card in which case you would have luck. Since the drm helper in your log shows i915 I assumed it would be intel, but then you would prob see it if ti was intel.