> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 4:25 PM > From: "Christopher Gregory via blfs-support" > <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> > To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > Cc: "Christopher Gregory" <christopher.greg...@mail.com> > Subject: [blfs-support] Wireless network card > > Hello, > > I have just purchased an asus PCE-AC55BT wireless network card, and I can not > for the life of me get it to work. The specs are: > > lshw -c network > *-network UNCLAIMED > description: Network controller > product: Wireless 8260 > vendor: Intel Corporation > physical id: 0 > bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 > version: 3a > width: 64 bits > clock: 33MHz > capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list > configuration: latency=0 > resources: memory:fdefe000-fdefffff > > lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2 > > 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 > [8086:24f3] (rev 3a) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 [8086:0010] > > What I have done is: > > copied iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode to /lib/firmware/ > > I have the following in the .config file for the kernel: > > CONFIG_WIRELESS=y > CONFIG_WEXT_CORE=y > CONFIG_WEXT_PROC=y > CONFIG_CFG80211=y > # CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE is not set > # CONFIG_CFG80211_DEVELOPER_WARNINGS is not set > CONFIG_CFG80211_REQUIRE_SIGNED_REGDB=y > CONFIG_CFG80211_USE_KERNEL_REGDB_KEYS=y > CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y > # CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS is not set > CONFIG_CFG80211_CRDA_SUPPORT=y > CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y > CONFIG_MAC80211=y > CONFIG_MAC80211_HAS_RC=y > CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_MINSTREL=y > CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_MINSTREL=y > CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="minstrel_ht" > > # CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set > CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS=y > # CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS is not set > # CONFIG_MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING is not set > # CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_MENU is not set > CONFIG_MAC80211_STA_HASH_MAX_SIZE=0 > # CONFIG_WIMAX is not set > > CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_INTEL=y > # CONFIG_IPW2100 is not set > # CONFIG_IPW2200 is not set > # CONFIG_IWL4965 is not set > # CONFIG_IWL3945 is not set > CONFIG_IWLWIFI=y > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y > CONFIG_IWLDVM=y > CONFIG_IWLMVM=y > # CONFIG_IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING is not set > > # Firmware loader > # > CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_uvd.bin > iwlwifi-8000C-13.ucode" > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y > CONFIG_WANT_DEV_COREDUMP=y > CONFIG_ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP=y > CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=y > # CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set > CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES=y > > This is the first time that I have configured a wireless network card on > blfs, and I have no idea what I have missed. Please note that this is on a > system running systemd with a 5.0.17 kernel. > > Regards, > > Christopher. > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Hello, Well this was a simple case of me not adding the new kernel to the *correct* grub menu. I have multiple drives and I added it to the incorrect drive!!!! Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
