Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Mar 2023 at 20:57:25 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/5/23, David Wright wrote: > > > > I run installed systems, so wifi passwords are either in individual > > /var/lib/iwd/.psk files (with iwd), or collectively in > > /etc/wpa_supplicant/.conf (with

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-06 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > So what was wrong with using a .link file like: > > [Match] > Type=wwan > [Link] > NamePolicy=keep kernel > > or > > [Match] > Type=wwan > [Link] > Name=my4g > > Did this not work? Nothing was wrong but I just added a few lines to my management script to

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/5/23, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 05 Mar 2023 at 02:42:46 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> On 3/4/23, David Wright wrote: >> > Also, now that the firmware is in place, if you repeat those steps, >> > you're /likely/ to find that ath10k_pci is busy, because the link >> > will be

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Mar 2023 at 21:22:10 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote: > Curt writes: > > > * UNPREDICTABILITY > > it turns out even after all this [**an enumeration of complications and > > corner > > cases**] there are still reported cases of interfaces changing their name > > on a > > reboot. > > I

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Mar 2023 at 02:42:46 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/4/23, David Wright wrote: > > Also, now that the firmware is in place, if you repeat those steps, > > you're /likely/ to find that ath10k_pci is busy, because the link > > will be configured automatically in the first few

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Albretch Mueller
I thought “unpredictability” was the name of my daily drama show, but apparently “I am not the only one”. Yes, I know javascript is the primary vector they use to mess with whomever they choose, regardless of if they wear a “tiny tin hat” or expensive shoes. In my case, among many other things,

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 09:22:10PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > I have just this fun kind of unpredictability in my router's 4G > module. Mostly, it comes up as wwan0 but sometimes it's wwx. So > I put something in my 4G management script to rename such interface if > there's no wwan0. If you're

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Curt writes: > * UNPREDICTABILITY > it turns out even after all this [**an enumeration of complications and corner > cases**] there are still reported cases of interfaces changing their name on a > reboot. I have just this fun kind of unpredictability in my router's 4G module. Mostly, it comes

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Curt
2023-03-04, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Wright wrote: >> >> On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> > > >

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/4/23, David Wright wrote: > Also, now that the firmware is in place, if you repeat those steps, > you're /likely/ to find that ath10k_pci is busy, because the link > will be configured automatically in the first few seconds after > booting up. I would always go into exposed mode using a DL

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > > does not move around once

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 00:03:16 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/3/23, David Wright wrote: > > > > Try removing the atheros module with: > > > > # rmmod ath10k_pci > > > > (check its name in /proc/modules), and then reload it with > > > > # modprobe ath10k_pci > > > > and check dmesg

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/3/23, Dan Ritter wrote: > ... the messages you > are seeing are from the first 88.2 seconds after boot. Most probably and luckily no one has reported such problems, but from the corner from which I see reality it may as well be not "after boot". I haven't exactly timed it (I will when I

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 06:09:40PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > > the same name like

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > > the same name like 'enp4s0'.

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/3/23, David Wright wrote: > > Try removing the atheros module with: > > # rmmod ath10k_pci > > (check its name in /proc/modules), and then reload it with > > # modprobe ath10k_pci > > and check dmesg again. Bingo! Those were the steps that enable me to see the wireless network with

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:36 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently >> wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After >>

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:45 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently > wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After > downloading and installing the required firmware: > > $ sudo dpkg --install

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > the same name like 'enp4s0'. That's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't quite work in

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:46 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > [...] > $ sudo lshw -class network > *-network DISABLED >description: Ethernet interface >product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller >vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >physical id: 0

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Fri 03 Mar 2023 at 21:45:27 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently > wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After > downloading and installing the required firmware: > > $ sudo dpkg --install

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Albretch Mueller wrote: > since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently > wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After > downloading and installing the required firmware: > > $ sudo dpkg --install firmware-atheros_20210315-3_all.deb > Selecting previously

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
since it was included in the Linux kernel anyway I (apparently wrongly) thought I didn't have to install any packages. After downloading and installing the required firmware: $ sudo dpkg --install firmware-atheros_20210315-3_all.deb Selecting previously unselected package firmware-atheros.

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:01:49PM + schrieb Albretch Mueller: > On 3/3/23, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Just run `ip link` or `ip address` and it will show you the name. In addition what Tim suggests: You could run dmesg and search for ath, wifi, wlan, wlp or so. In my case the output

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 12:01 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/3/23, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Just run `ip link` or `ip address` and it will show you the name. > > I had already done so, but I don't see the "logical name" or the IP > of the wireless interface on my very "temperamental"

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/3/23, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Just run `ip link` or `ip address` and it will show you the name. I had already done so, but I don't see the "logical name" or the IP of the wireless interface on my very "temperamental" DELL Inspiron which seems to have a mind of its own. I only see

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:46 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ sudo lspci | grep --ignore-case Wireless > 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless > Network Adapter (rev 31) > $ > > $ sudo lshw -class network > *-network DISABLED >description: Ethernet