Dev1 Galaxy Forum / firmware?

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (pedropt) — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:35:57 +0000

Ok , finally got some time to read all the posts here .
Intel advanced-N 6205 wireless driver is compiled on the package "firmware-iwlwifi"
device drivers list from this package
https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi#supported

This way , you only need to do this :

apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

Do this with your wifi pen disconnected , and after the instalation of the package you should connect your wifi pen to be detected .

Al you all may know , a DVD install and a CD install have many differences in packages inside the distro .
The best way from now on is to when installing devuan from a CD , to have the wifi pen connected , so the OS on install detect it and download the appropriate driver .
Common firmwares like realtek and ralink should be there by default because those are the most used wifi chipsets everywhere .

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (pedropt) — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 02:56:13 +0000

what are the chipsets of your wireless pens ?
you can get that information on terminal by using the command

lsusb

or for more information

lsusb -vv

Here it is an example of an rtl8187 wireless usb device using that command

for kinivo wd320 the website provide linux drivers in case the OS does not detect the chipset .

all you have to do in case that devuan does not have the driver for that chipset is opening a terminal and apply these commands :

wget http://downloads.kinivo.com/product/driver/wid320/2011_0719_RT3070_RT3370_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO.bz2
tar -xjvf 2011_0719_RT3070_RT3370_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO.bz2
cd 2011_0719_RT3070_RT3370_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO
make && make install

but for what i could check from the package , it looks that device is using an ralink chipset , and for that you just need to :

 apt-get install firmware-ralink

I have serious doubts that devuan does not have you guys drivers , because if devuan does not have them , then debian jessie does not have them too .

try these commands

depmod -a

this will insert the driver (if exists) to your device

lsmod

this will show you all modules loaded in your system

modinfo xxxx

this will show you more information on a specific driver
example in my case : modinfo rtl8187

I did not check other posts on this topic because i am in an hurry , i will check tomorrow .

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (catprints) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:09:15 +0000

Thanks Golinux. I,m sure the devs are busy with many many things. Since I have Devuan already, working perfectly, I can afford to be patient.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:28:24 +0000

@bobemoe @iamwhatiam . . . The best thing I can think of would be to call @CenturionDan in a response to that issue. I doubt he has time to trawl through git to find issues and that would bring it to his attention. I have just done that for both those issues. As to tags/labels . . . you need permissions to create them and actually, I haven't found them that effective.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (catprints) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:07:24 +0000

I have no experience as to "tagging". For the RC or anything else. How to tag?

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (bobemoe) — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:42:58 +0000

I can confirm this too, my wifi was not detected on beta2 whereas it was on beta1. This leaves the system networkless after an install. I followed the steps above to get online and setup the correct mirror, fairly straightforward for the experienced de(bi|vu)an user but certainly not a good start for the novice or newcomer or the NETINST.

Looking at issue #90 and #91 I see neither have had any attention or been tagged for the RC.

I tried to tag them but I don't think I have permission? All I managed to do was add one as a "Todo" but I'm not really sure what this means!? Now I only have the option to mark it "Done". Is this a personal Todo list or am I messing up the job status?

Just wanted to make sure this gets the attention it needs, I'd hate it to be overlooked for the RC.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (robert-e) — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 06:49:14 +0000

@fsmithred;
I added the source line you suggested and am happy to report that all is well. Will be spending all day tomorrow playing.
Again, thanks.

Best regards,
Bob

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (stickman) — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:34:13 +0000

Has anyone tried unloading the wifi modules (if they are loaded) then load them after the firmware files are in place?

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:59:03 +0000

wicd does not require systemd or libsystemd0.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (robert-e) — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:44:57 +0000

Thanks, fsmithred;
I did uncomment those four lines in the sources.list, and then apt-get update. I will add the mirror line, but wonder if that will change anything, since I could install from the (main?) repo.
Thanks for the tip wrt getting a dhcp lan address. I will try that this evening when we get back home. My wife and I are going out the dinner and then to a Christmas concert this evening.

Best regards,
Bob

ps..is wicd systemd encumbered?

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 20:53:01 +0000

If you installed without a mirror, then no mirror will be in sources.list. You would need to plug in your install media to add programs, or else you need to add some sources. Uncomment the lines for jessie-security and jessie-updates in /etc/apt/sources.list and add

deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main

and then

apt-get update

Then you should be able to install from the repo.

To get a wired connection when you plug the ethernet cable in after you've booted, as root, run

dhclient eth0

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (robert-e) — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 18:44:42 +0000

Last night I installed beta2 using the dvd; it installed okay, but on reboot, there was no networking tools for the wireless. Actually, after the install, I disconnected the lan cable and rebooted, and subsequently re-plugged the lan cable...no connection. Okay, so I rebooted, and low and behold, the lan auto-connected. Then I looked for some wireless tools, and could not find wicd, or simple-netaid installed. In fact, neither was available from the repos. So my question is: Is there some other repo than the (four) suggested in the sources.list? By the way, I did the install from a usb stick, rather than a dvd, so as to get a faster install. Perhaps that has some bearing on this issue? Perhaps wicd has a dependency on libsystemd0?

Also, prior to this bare metal install, I attempted to upgrade an old wheezy mate install, following the instructions on this site. It was sort of successful, except that even with pinning systemd, and libsystemd0, systemd kept on getting installed. No problem..I had made a clonezilla of the wheezy install, just in case.

Regards,
Bob

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (jaromil) — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 09:43:14 +0000

Thanks to you and @cpoakes for detailed reports. I haven't reproduced nor investigated in depth, but at first glance it seems there is something wrong with the installer upstream. We haven't touched anything regarding firmware at install in Devuan AFAIK. We'll reproduce this and test to fix, indeed adding an issue on gitlab is way to go for now, tagging it for the RC milestone.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 03:51:29 +0000

I ran into this today installing from the DVD image and tried to work around it with

cp /cdrom/firmware/*  /target/lib/firmware/ 
chroot /target
dpkg -i /lib/firmware/firmware-realtek*.deb

then tried to get the installer to see the wireless interface. It wouldn't do it, so I just finished the install.

On reboot, I found that I needed to install wicd, so I plugged in a wire, added wicd, and the wireless interface is working.

Re: firmware?

dummy@example.com (catprints) — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:30:50 +0000

@golinux...

I follow irc (#devuan) and dng daily but I prefer the forum interaction.