Hello again!
One of the major bonuses of Puppy is if there are a ton of issues one can just regroup and try another Puppy.
Per a great suggestion via Facebook I ditched Fossa and am now using Bionicpup and it screams along!
BUT CAN'T GET WIFI GOING.
So, what do y'all suggest? Playing with firmware modules now but I'm out of my league.
SUGGESTIONS?
Dell Inspiron 7506 2n1
Thanks in advance!
No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
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Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
Did the WIFI work in Fossapup64 9.5?
now using Bionicpup
Which one?
Bionicpup32 8.0 or Bionicpup64 8.0?
The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
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Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
@steve_s - could be driver and/or firmware issue. Please run the following commands in a terminal:
lspci -nn | grep etwork (note command starts with lowercase 'L', and '|' symbol usually shift+\ keys)
and then
dmesg | grep irmware
and post the results here please. Will give us the info to help you.
EDIT: First try Chris' suggestion below. If the adaptor is an Intel AX201, as others suggested, firmware is probably here:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_media ... 5109.0.tgz
Copy the file into an empty folder, cd into that folder, then run tar -zxvf iwlwifi-qu-48.13675109.0.tgz
then copy .ucode files found in subfolder into /lib/firmware. Hopefully wireless will then work. If not, do diagnostics above.
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Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
Specs:
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en ... lang=en-us
Yes >>> Intel AX201
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And is your wireless light on...oops!
Used to be >>> hit Fn / F2 keys
Linux...
https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au ... eless.html
Chris.
Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
Excellent, all! I did move some firmware there but I didn't quite know which one. Gonna move that one in there for bionicpup64 and what happens. May give another crack at some other puppy's, too, although only fossa and bionic have booted it this far. Then I gotta figure out why it doesn't see the internal ntfs drive, but that seems to be maybe a permission thing. I'm knew to eufi so some of this is an adventure. Will post!
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Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
If Windows is on the internal drive.
If last time you shutdown Windows in hibernate.
That can cause drive access problems for anything but Windows.
Hibernate does not fully release control of the internal drive.
Always shutdown Windows in a normal shutdown.
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Re: No WiFi on Dell Inspiron / Bionicpup
Update: Fatdog for the win, found wifi out of the box. For windows have to make sure Fastboot is off or windows tries to keep control of wifi even when not in Windows. Can see windows drives if turn off raid and turn on AHCI or something, but then can't boot windows. Xenial and Bionicpup will boot but no matter how much moving of /lib/firmware files I do I can't get them to see wifi. Fatdog, Chimaera and Slacko see wifi, and Fatdog seems to be cleanest and most recent and i like how it looks. Thanks to everyone for the input/help!