Wi-Fi not detected

[kalei6oscope]

Hi, I recently installed Salix 15.0 on my laptop, using the 15.0 iso (not the live one) on a usb, and the network manager cannot detect any networks. I’m dual booting Salix with Linux Mint, and on Mint Wi-Fi works fine.

My laptop is a HP Envy x360 and uses a mediatek Wi-Fi card.
I don’t know how to add photos here, but the output of lspci -vvv -nn came up with:
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: MEDIATEK Corp. Device [14c3:0616]
DeviceName: WLAN
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc, Device [105b: e0db]

There was no “kernel driver in use:” or “kernel modules:”

Ifconfig detects lo and nothing else, iwconfig doesn’t work. In the /lib/firmware/mediatek folder on my Linux Mint partition there is mt7925, mt7996, mt8173 and mt8183 folders, and in /lib/firmware there is rt88 and rt89 so I tried installing the same ones on my Salix partition and rebooting, but there’s no difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

[gapan]

Hi and welcome!

I think that your wifi card is simply too new for the 5.15 kernel that we have in 15.0. I think support for it was added at a later kernel version, so if you upgrade your kernel, it should probably work.

You have the following options:
1. Install the kernel from current. https://docs.salixos.org/user/install-k ... m-current/
2. Compile your own kernel. https://docs.salixos.org/user/kernel-compilation/

Getting just the firmware files from a different kernel as you did won't work.

[Chumi]

Hello Gapan,

To install the kernel from current you can't find the kernel-huge and the kernel-modules (version 6.12.10) in the mirrors.

I was wondering about this in the French section.

Is it too early and can we hope that these packages will come?

[gapan]

Oh, I just realized that that documentation page needs to be updated. There is no kernel-huge package and no kernel-modules package anymore. From the slackware current changelog, http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware ... ngeLog.txt

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a/kernel-huge-6.10.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Removed.
  So long, we won't miss you.
  If you were actually using kernel-huge with one of the SCSI/SAS drivers that
  were built in, you'll need to use kernel-generic and an initrd that contains
  the needed drivers. Otherwise, just switch to kernel-generic. It'll be fine.
  If unsure, make an initrd with geninitrd and have your bootloader use it.
a/kernel-modules-6.10.9-x86_64-1.txz:  Removed.
  Kernel modules are now bundled with the kernel-generic package.

So, just use the kernel-generic package and make sure to create an initrd with geninitrd (and use that in your bootloader).

[Chumi]

So, just use the kernel-generic package and make sure to create an initrd with geninitrd (and use that in your bootloader).

Thank you for your reply. I'm going to have to find out more about all this as I know very little about Slackware. What's more, I use Grub and not Lilo. Anyway, I'm already experimenting in a virtual machine.

I use an online translator to communicate in English. I hope it's understandable

[Chumi]

@gapan : It's OK, I can manage with the current kernel and with Grub. I still have a few questions about this but I don't want to disturb this discussion that I didn't initiate myself. Thanks for your time.