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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 15:41 Post subject:
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The system is a homemade system powered by an ASRock J4105-ITX board which has an embedded Pentium J4105 processor, 2x 4GB of some spare 2666 MHz DDR4 memory, and a flash-based save drive connected via the board's USB 3.0 header. The system also includes an onboard M.2 E-key slot for a Wi-Fi card, which I have populated with an Intel 9260.
It is running the release of XenialPup 7.5 64bit hosted on ibiblio; It was installed using the UEFI iso loaded onto a live USB using Rufus 3.3.
Whenever I run the Network Wizard, it fails to recognize the Wi-Fi interface completely and only shows the Ethernet interface. I have found a post in the missing firmware thread that looks like its referring to my wireless card, but searching through the library of included modules didn't yield the iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-38.ucode that I was looking for. Any suggestions from the community would be greatly appreciated![/code]
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mostly_lurking
Joined: 25 Jun 2014 Posts: 321
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 16:20 Post subject:
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I went to the site the first post of that thread linked to. Is this the file you are looking for?
http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/firmware/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-38.ucode
There are also several other versions of the "iwlwifi-9260" firmware.
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 16:32 Post subject:
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I had no idea there was a link in that thread! I'm sorry, I must have assumed that those updates were added to the iso. Thank you for pointing that out!
Now what do I do?
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mostly_lurking
Joined: 25 Jun 2014 Posts: 321
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 16:50 Post subject:
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The above-mentioned first post of the "missing firmware" thread has some instructions, which more or less boil down to "put the file into /lib/firmware and reboot".
If that's not enough to get it working, I don't know either; I've never done this myself.
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 16:53 Post subject:
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RimsOnAToaster wrote: | Thank you for pointing that out!
Now what do I do? |
Just read the post. I think I got it. I'll post back with results
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 16:53 Post subject:
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mostly_lurking wrote: | The above-mentioned first post of the "missing firmware" thread has some instructions, which more or less boil down to "put the file into /lib/firmware and reboot".
If that's not enough to get it working, I don't know either; I've never done this myself. |
Thank you!!!
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 17:40 Post subject:
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So I'm still struggling to get the M.2 Wireless Adapter running. When I copied the iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-43.ucode file over via USB drive to /lib/firmware and noticed that the file was written with green text, while the surrounding files were all black. I'm wondering if there's any significance to that.
Anyways, I saved the session to a secondary USB drive, rebooted the session from the liveUSB, and came back to a session that didn't run the initial setup wizard on startup and had the iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-38.ucode file in /lib/firmware. Network Wizard still didn't recognize the wireless card, however.
I'm going to try loading the rest of the iwl-9260 files I found on fishprogs.software while I'm waiting for a response here, since I only tried the latest one added.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 12801 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 17:47 Post subject:
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If you run "lspci", is this adapter detected?
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 18:37 Post subject:
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So after running lspci, I got a pretty extensive output with 7 Intel devices listed. One was the host bridge, one was a communications device, one was an SMBus, and four were PCI Bridges.
Code: | root# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31f0 (rev 03)
00:00.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 318c (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3185 (rev 03)
00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 3198 (rev 03)
00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 319a (rev 03)
00:12.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 31e3 (rev 03)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31d8 (rev f3)
00:13.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31d9 (rev f3)
00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31da (rev f3)
00:13.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31db (rev f3)
00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 31a8 (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 31e8 (rev 03)
00:1f.1 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 31d4 (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
04:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 12801 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 19:00 Post subject:
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Normally, an internal PCI WiFi adapter would appear as a Network Controller, which you don't have in your list.
I would go into the UEFI setup and look for a setting to enable the M.2 slot.
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 19:05 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | Normally, an internal PCI WiFi adapter would appear as a Network Controller, which you don't have in your list.
I would go into the UEFI setup and look for a setting to enable the M.2 slot. |
Is that something I can do from within X, or do I need to go to the board's UEFI screen at startup?
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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8021 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 19:16 Post subject:
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PASS..
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RimsOnAToaster
Joined: 25 Jan 2019 Posts: 23
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 19:42 Post subject:
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Semme wrote: | I agree with the Man. The latter of your questioning... |
I'm sorry, what are you saying? Am I the man?
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ozsouth
Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 594 Location: S.E Australia
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 20:05 Post subject:
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Modern intel wireless need kernel 4.10 or later. Also need to see which ucode is being sought by system.
To help with diagnosis, please post outputs of each of the following commands (in a terminal):
uname -r
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dmseg | grep wifi
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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 8021 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2019, 20:10 Post subject:
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PASS..
_________________ >>> Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities. It helps you live a life less trivial <<<
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