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[solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

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[solved]How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#1 Post by este.el.paz »

Folks:

Been trying to navigate through the many wikis that would give the exact instructions on how to get wifi working in fresh Bookworm install on my '20 Gazelle 15 laptop . . . a lot of data about "what is wifi?". . . from back in the day??? hard to find the "get it done" pages . . . .

I'm using MATE as the DE and I have NetworkManager because ethernet is now working . . . "enable networking" and Notifications is checked and "ethernet1" is showing, but the unit is a couple of feet from the router and nothing is showing up as "available" in Debian.

I have Pop!_OS 21.04 and Gecko rolling Plasma installed and wifi works out of the box. I "added" my wifi network SSID and password manually and nuttin' . . . . I looked through the PCI options and my card doesn't seem to be listed with the driver that I would need to add for it???

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lspci -nn | grep Network
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:06f0]
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Re: How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#2 Post by mm3100 »

Have you installed necessary firmware?
Install
isenkram-cli
And run
isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
That should tell if there is missing firmware.

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Re: How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

#3 Post by este.el.paz »

mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-04 06:27 Have you installed necessary firmware?
Install
isenkram-cli
And run
isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
That should tell if there is missing firmware.
@mm3100

Seems pretty clear that the necessary firmware or drivers were not installed in the installation . . . question would be . . . why? But, I'll check into that later on today . . . see what shows up . . . .

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Re: How to get wifi working in bookworm on Sys76 Gaz15??

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mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-04 06:27 Have you installed necessary firmware?
Install
isenkram-cli
And run
isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
That should tell if there is missing firmware.
isenkram is installed, but isn't responding to commands??? I ran "man isenkram" to see if that would give a hint, but it says, "no manual entry for isenkram" . . . how do I get this horsie to get up and go??

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isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
bash: isenkram-autoinstall-firmware: command not found

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#5 Post by 4D696B65 »

Your wifi chip is supported in kernel 5.7 and up. It will need firmware-iwlwifi from non-free repo. The problem is I cant find your product id in sids 5.10 kernel.

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4D696B65 wrote: 2021-09-04 17:21 Your wifi chip is supported in kernel 5.7 and up. It will need firmware-iwlwifi from non-free repo. The problem is I cant find your product id in sids 5.10 kernel.
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Thanks for the post . . . right now I rebooted into the Gecko Plasma partition and ran lsmod . . . saw a few places that had "pci" in them like,

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xhci_pci  xhci_pci_renesas  xhci_hcd   rtsx_pci_sdmmc  mmc_core  intel_lpss_pci
Does any of that make sense?/ I think Gecko rolling is 5.13 kernel???

[edit a few minutes later:] Rebooted into OEM Pop! partition and ran lsmod, looks like similar options there for pci.

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#7 Post by 4D696B65 »

Correction, it is in 5.10.

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modinfo iwlwifi | grep -i 06f0
alias:          pci:v00008086d000006F0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

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4D696B65 wrote: 2021-09-04 18:10 Correction, it is in 5.10.

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modinfo iwlwifi | grep -i 06f0
alias:          pci:v00008086d000006F0sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
OK . . . does that mean I can just run #apt install firmware-iwlwifi ??? Or is it more complicated?? Or is it easier or better to use synaptic to find and install??

I don't have a lot of miles in Debian . . . like, why is admin not in "sudoers"??? That kind of question??? But, right now question is how to figure out how to get wifi up and running in Bookworm, if possible.

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este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-04 18:33 OK . . . does that mean I can just run #apt install firmware-iwlwifi ???
yes


Debain does not set up sudo automatically. you don't need it and in most cases people set up improperly and insecurely.

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4D696B65 wrote: 2021-09-04 18:37
este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-04 18:33 OK . . . does that mean I can just run #apt install firmware-iwlwifi ???
yes


Debain does not set up sudo automatically. you don't need it and in most cases people set up improperly and insecurely.
OK, I'll check that out in a few . . . see if it gets me going.

I get that "we don't need sudo," but some other distros don't want people always using # . . . like possibly the step-child ubuntu . . . they prefer "sudo"??? :shock: :?:

[edit] apt isn't finding it and isn't showing in synaptic.

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E: Unable to locate package firmware-iwlwifi
Also just ran "iwlwifi" same error.

Any reply on how to get isenkram to do its thing??]

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este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-04 14:12 Seems pretty clear that the necessary firmware or drivers were not installed in the installation . . . question would be . . . why? But, I'll check into that later on today . . . see what shows up . . . .
If you installed from official Debian image it won't include non-free firmware, it is expected behaviour. As for
este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-04 18:42 [edit] apt isn't finding it and isn't showing in synaptic.
That is because you don't have non-free added to your source.

You need to run isenkram-autoinstall-firmware with root privileges.

It will automatically add non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and search and try to install missing firmware. After you run it restart the device, it should install missing firmware it can find.

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As for user not being in sudo group, if during installation you create root account, you specify root password, then your account won't be added to sudo group. It is expected Debian behaviour. To amend that add your user to sudo group and log out. I am unsure if sudo is installed if you set up root account, in that case you will need to install it.

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mm3100 wrote: 2021-09-04 19:35
If you installed from official Debian image it won't include non-free firmware, it is expected behaviour. As for
este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-04 18:42 [edit] apt isn't finding it and isn't showing in synaptic.
That is because you don't have non-free added to your source.

You need to run isenkram-autoinstall-firmware with root privileges.

It will automatically add non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and search and try to install missing firmware. After you run it restart the device, it should install missing firmware it can find.
@mm3100

Yes, installed from official image . . . . I installed isenkram-cli (it's showing in synaptic) and, as I'm not added in sudoers I have to be root . . . but so far I can't get isenkram to "work" . . . . That's what I was asking about a couple of posts back . . . . I have run a number of different commands, nada. From when I installed it this morning I have rebooted in and out of Debian . . . ran apt update . . . nothing mentioning "non-free" as of yet.

How do I get this horsie to giddyup??

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# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
bash: isenkram-autoinstall-firmware: command not found
root@# apt isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
E: Invalid operation isenkram-autoinstall-firmware

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#14 Post by stevepusser »

Should be as root:

apt install <whatever-packagename>
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stevepusser wrote: 2021-09-04 23:58 Should be as root:

apt install <whatever-packagename>
Uh, yeah, I already installed isenkram . . . now trying to get it to work to search for missing wifi packages.

I found @mm3100 thread where he is recommending isenkram . . . but then so far I can't get the engine started on it. :roll: :?:

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I told you what firmware to install. Why play with isenkram?

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4D696B65 wrote: 2021-09-05 00:22 I told you what firmware to install. Why play with isenkram?
Homeslice, thanks for that, but I posted back that it error-ed out, and synaptic didn't find it. So, I was hoping to get isenkram to work, but . . . . So do I just need to add "contrib non-free" lines into my sources.list to then be able to install the wifi driver??

All I am trying to do is get wifi working . . .

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este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-05 00:26 [ So do I just need to add "contrib non-free" lines into my sources.list to then be able to install the wifi driver??

All I am trying to do is get wifi working . . .
yes

apt update after the change

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4D696B65 wrote: 2021-09-05 00:32
este.el.paz wrote: 2021-09-05 00:26 [ So do I just need to add "contrib non-free" lines into my sources.list to then be able to install the wifi driver??

All I am trying to do is get wifi working . . .
yes

apt update after the change
@4D696B65 et al:

Done!! Had to reboot the unit to get the driver to take charge . . . posting this via wifi connection. Thanks to all of the posters for the boost on it. I'll check later to see if adding nonfree helps get isenkram to fire up . . . or maybe it isn't ready to play in the bookworm environment???

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You need to run isenkram with root privileges, that is all.

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