No Wi-Fi on Notebook with Crux 3.1
Hi, First of all, I'm very fascinating about Crux! I really like about the ports system and the fast this distro is (I tested others source-based OS like FreeBSD before, so I enjoy this too much!) Three days ago, I've installed Crux on my Notebook and my Wi-Fi interface doesn't work. The wireless card is a Ralink RT3090 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe, and in Linux kernel options I've checked to compile the Ralink driver support modules (including the Ralink rt30xx module) but when I try bring it up I got: bash-4.3# ip link set wlp2s0 up RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory My wireles card lspci output: bash-4.3# lspci | grep Network02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe and at boot time I always get this error (taken from dmesg command): [ 8834.432932] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'[ 8834.432958] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware I'd try too install the development version of Linux kernel (4.3.0-rc3), but I cannot install the Nvidia graphics from ports (even after modify the Pkgfile to get the Nvidia's last version and avoid patch it for 3.12.4 current Crux's kernel) or binary installer, so I'm stuck with 3.12.4 version until next Crux release. Did I miss something while I configurate the kernel? Will I try the development version of Crux with 4.0.6 kernel version? Sorry if my English is bad, is not my native language. Thank you. Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 05:10:35PM -0400, sergiocruz90 wrote:
Hi,
First of all, I'm very fascinating about Crux! I really like about the ports system and the fast this distro is (I tested others source-based OS like FreeBSD before, so I enjoy this too much!)
Three days ago, I've installed Crux on my Notebook and my Wi-Fi interface doesn't work. The wireless card is a Ralink RT3090 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe, and in Linux kernel options I've checked to compile the Ralink driver support modules (including the Ralink rt30xx module) but when I try bring it up I got:
bash-4.3# ip link set wlp2s0 up RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
My wireles card lspci output: bash-4.3# lspci | grep Network02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
and at boot time I always get this error (taken from dmesg command): [ 8834.432932] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'[ 8834.432958] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware
Looks like you need some firmware! Firmware for new hardware are no longer added to the kernel source repo (this happened a few years ago). Firmware lives in a separate upstream repo these days and is available in crux in the contrib repo - contrib/linux-firmware. The problem here is obviously that you need a working network connection to actually fetch and install this port, since it's not included on the ISO.
I'd try too install the development version of Linux kernel (4.3.0-rc3), but I cannot install the Nvidia graphics from ports (even after modify the Pkgfile to get the Nvidia's last version and avoid patch it for 3.12.4 current Crux's kernel) or binary installer, so I'm stuck with 3.12.4 version until next Crux release.
Did I miss something while I configurate the kernel? Will I try the development version of Crux with 4.0.6 kernel version?
Sorry if my English is bad, is not my native language.
Thank you.
Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.
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* Fredrik Rinnestam (fredrik@rinnestam.se) wrote:
The problem here is obviously that you need a working network connection to actually fetch and install this port, since it's not included on the ISO.
Out of curiosity, I stripped the linux-firmware files from everything non-(W)LAN related and tar -cJf-ed it (I took the WHENCE file from the repo as a starting point). The result is a 24MB tarball that is way lighter than the original, unpacked 106MB repository. TBH, I don't know where the pain barrier for Fredrik, Matt and Jürgen is located, but maybe splitting the port into the essential networking and non-networking parts and including the first one could be an option. regards, Thomas --
Hi! I installed the linux-firmware port and it's works! Thanks you all! Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: No Wi-Fi on Notebook with Crux 3.1 Time (UTC): October 14 2015 11:09 pm From: tek@serverop.de To: crux@lists.crux.nu * Fredrik Rinnestam (fredrik@rinnestam.se) wrote:
The problem here is obviously that you need a working network connection to actually fetch and install this port, since it's not included on the ISO.
Out of curiosity, I stripped the linux-firmware files from everything non-(W)LAN related and tar -cJf-ed it (I took the WHENCE file from the repo as a starting point). The result is a 24MB tarball that is way lighter than the original, unpacked 106MB repository. TBH, I don't know where the pain barrier for Fredrik, Matt and Jürgen is located, but maybe splitting the port into the essential networking and non-networking parts and including the first one could be an option. regards, Thomas -- _______________________________________________ CRUX mailing list CRUX@lists.crux.nu https://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux
On 15 October 2015 at 00:09, Thomas Penteker <tek@serverop.de> wrote:
* Fredrik Rinnestam (fredrik@rinnestam.se) wrote:
The problem here is obviously that you need a working network connection to actually fetch and install this port, since it's not included on the ISO.
Out of curiosity, I stripped the linux-firmware files from everything non-(W)LAN related and tar -cJf-ed it (I took the WHENCE file from the repo as a starting point). The result is a 24MB tarball that is way lighter than the original, unpacked 106MB repository. TBH, I don't know where the pain barrier for Fredrik, Matt and Jürgen is located, but maybe splitting the port into the essential networking and non-networking parts and including the first one could be an option.
Hi Thomas, That's very good idea. Missing Wifi Firmware is one of the most annoying things during Crux installation. If that cannot be add, maybe we can have two iso, normal and 'notebook' one. Wawrzek -- Dr Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański or Wawrzek for short PhD in Quantum Chemistry & MSc in Molecular Engineering WWW: http://wawrzek.name E-MAIL: jobs@wawrzek.name Linux User #177124
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