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evanescente~ondine

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Registered: Yesterday

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wifi doesn't work (N100 processors)

Hi,
I have of these new (relatively speaking) miniPC with a N100 processor inside. A AM02 Firebat. I'm supposed to get wifi 6 but I haven't been able to make it work so far.
This is what I can read about wifi from hwinfo:
> iwlwifi: module = iwlwifi

  iwlwifi 360448 0 - Live 0x0000000000000000
cfg80211 1146880 1 iwlwifi, Live 0x0000000000000000
Driver Status: iwlwifi is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe iwlwifi"

And this from dmesg:

[    2.802028] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    2.813587] iwlwifi: No config found for PCI dev 54f0/0244, rev=0x370, rfid=0x10c000
[    2.813617] iwlwifi: probe of 0000:00:14.3 failed with error -22

No wifi interface is listed. I do not know if the above is supposed to mean anything bad. Especially since not long before I switched from debian to devuan I had to open the pc's case to reinitialize the BIOS the old-fashioned way: booting without the CMOS battery... pressing the button supposedly to that effect didn't suffice.
And doing so I accidentally unplug the wifi antenna, then put them back on. But I don't know if I damaged them in the process or put them back in the wrong order (master and slave antenna) or if my problem is related at all. In fact there are other problems, everything is slower since I came to devuan. But one thing at a time.
How to know if the software/firmware part of the wifi is ok ?

Thanks my based friends

delgado

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Registered: 2022-07-14

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Re: wifi doesn't work (N100 processors)

is package firmware-iwlwifi installed?

evanescente~ondine

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Re: wifi doesn't work (N100 processors)

Huh no it wasn't... But it wasn't enough. I had to install the newest kernel from the backport. Then now I get this:

[  125.501982] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x501, cnv-id 0x80400 wfpm id 0x80000030
[  125.502024] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 54f0/0244, rev=0x370, rfid=0x10c000
[  125.502027] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX101
[  125.503228] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.42
[  125.503618] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[  125.503627] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[  125.503633] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[  125.503636] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 89.4d42c933.0 so-a0-hr-b0-89.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[  125.761642] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[  125.761692] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[  125.761741] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[  125.761789] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x10
[  125.761977] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected RF HR1 B3, rfid=0x10c000
[  125.762711] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
[  125.804080] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: base HW address: a0:02:a5:f2:52:a1
[  125.974395] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[  125.974445] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[  125.974494] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[  125.974545] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x10
[  125.975480] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4
[  126.021985] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 0
[  126.181289] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_UMAC_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x20
[  126.181338] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_LMAC2_PD_NOTIFICATION: 0x1f
[  126.181386] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WFPM_AUTH_KEY_0: 0x90
[  126.181435] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: CNVI_SCU_SEQ_DATA_DW9: 0x10
[  126.182500] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RFIm is deactivated, reason = 4

The interface appears in lswh or ip link, but not to nmtui.
I read the RMlm deactivation could plausibly come from the antenna disconnection. A friend of mine has the same miniPC but I never disconnected the antenna. I'll install the backport kernel there and see if the same problem arises. If so, we'll know I likely didn't mess up (too much).

ps: does it mean I can delete all other iwlwifi ucode files other than iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-89.ucode now ?

Last edited by evanescente~ondine (Yesterday 22:54:56)

ralph.ronnquist

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Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: wifi doesn't work (N100 processors)

What do you get from rfkill  ? (you might need to install it).