My network guy yesterday: "I took down one of your gateways after fat-fingering a change that assigned it’s IP to another device "
Me: “Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Nobody complained. I’ll just resolve the alarms.”
for me, wifi never worked on Linux
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What’s the system? Might be able to get it working like my macbookpro12,1
invalid password error. antix linux. propably a driver issue due to laptop being too old and linux kernel being too new
Maybe. I’d try a different distro and see if it works like Tuxedo OS or EndeavourOS, should work right away unless you need specific drivers, might need to find out the WiFi chip and see if theres any posts on how to fix it. Might need to switch the WiFi backend like I did or something
things like that would not even boot up on this old junk. im lucky that i found an old ethernet cable
Is this a person or did you finally decide to read the damn man pages?
It was a GitHub repository actually, but the files were a big help. Shoutout to “macbookpro-12-1 linux fix files”
All they did was unplug it, and plug it back in.
I think, it is about drivers
It was a guy who posted a few files that allowed the WiFi driver to work on my old laptop with EndeavourOS installed. Been trying to figure out what I was doing wrong for a while, turns out downloading iwd wasn’t enough, I needed to stop using wpa_supplicant entirely.
That files were firmware files, weren’t they? I think those would be in AUR as well. Most of them are. 😇
Yeah, but the AUR build failed for me, so I just manually copied the WiFi iwd backend fix, it was only a couple short lines anyway.
Ahh, I see
May I ask which driver you are using for your wifi chip? I want to research about this
This is the fix I needed to get WiFi working. I had browsed several forums saying that removing broadcom-wl(-dkms) would fix the problems I was having, but it turns out you need to stop using wpa_supplicant due to a bug or something. Not sure why the AUR pkgbuild failed but it seems like this way was simpler anyway
How, funny, my sister just wrote me about wifi problems on her linux MBP (authentication not working) and I sent her the link to the GitHub, and it worked for her as well 🥳
😍this is awesome! I have a MBP running endeavourOS as well! I think some things written there, apply to my system (2013) as well
For my setup, endeavourOS was the only distro that got wifi working out of box 🤭 maybe it is different now
I have KDE and use whatever WiFi authentication system is used there by default Seems WPA_Supplican, at least it is installed Oh, but iwd is installed as well 🤔
I have BCMM4360 and it uses the driver wl
Do you have the same chip?
And, was the issue it working not at all, or that it crashed sometimes while in use and needed a reboot in order to work again?
Network engineers:
Yes I broke the network. Why do you ask?
You son of of bitch. 💪
All that pencil pushing making you weak?
All they did was plug in an ethernet cable.
And when it suddenly doesn’t work, it’s somehow your fault 😅
