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Neuro
Hi, I recently acquired an ancient Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet and decided to slap Linux on it for the hell of it, and decided on antiX.
Before install, it was on Windows 10 and all working fine.
I made live usb, booted from, used install feature, etc, and all is now installed (seemingly).
However the wifi adapter is not recognized by the system somehow, even though it 100% worked with win10. Both WPA and Connman do not show anything in their dropdown menus for “Adapter” and rfkill implies only the onboard NFC chip is being recognized.What am I missing/what to do?
Thanks in advance.
ModdIt
there is a long thread on the wifi problems with your device,
`https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=241102
Hopefully you can get the situation resolved, does not look so simple.
Just because it says mint do not worry, much is relevant to that as Mint
Buntu are broadly based on Debian- This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by ModdIt.
Nice find. Still, all they seem to have been able to come up with is “buy a new wifi card” which isn’t great and somewhat ruins the point of getting some use out of an old cheap tablet. Oh well, back to windows it is I suppose.
Still, if I run some of the commands OP was told to run I get different results, so I am not sure what is going on. Perhaps slightly different hardware revisions of the same product, or maybe it is just linux differences. I’ll see what I can find.
Thanks.
caprea
Please share some of the different results.for example output of
inxi -Snxz
Did yo try any other linux ?I actually tried porteus before this but for some reason making a live usb with it refused to work, so this is the first installed tested distro.
Apologies in advance for phone pics, since it’s disconnected from the internet its the easiest way to get it across. The first picture is the response of some standard commands, the second is the device as shown by hwinfo.
Note that I did try the “driver activation cmd” but it seemed to do and affect nothing: however when I added -v it replies “FATAL: Module ath6kl_sdio not found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.0-279-antix.1-and64.smp”
I will at some point try a more “bog standard” linux implementation and see if that at least can work with it.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Neuro.
- This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Neuro.
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you have an atheros wifi device
Good thread below adress, not much hope but try modprobe ath6kl
and see if it returns anything useful.https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath6kl/debug- This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by ModdIt.
caprea
antiX comes per default with an old and a modern kernel on the live stick.
This is the old one, did you also try the modern 5.10 kernel during live session ?That is interesting. I don’t rememeber being given such a choice. Old kernel might be the problem. I will boot from live stick again and see.
modprobe i have already described, it’s the “driver activation command” i mentioned. if I do just modprobe ath6kl instead of modprobe ath6kl_sdio the result is the same.
caprea
The modern kernel is in the advanced boot options.
christophe
Oh. A quick note — I see you are using antiX 21 base. For the dual-kernel start options, you need to use antiX-21 full.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
caprea
A really crucial point, cristophe, good that you have seen it.
This explains it. I really spent a while looking around trying to get this “modern kernel” to apparate. Will try again now.
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