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BushMan_01

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Registered: 2019-06-30

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[solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

Hello.
I have recently begun using Arch after a few months of absence (August was my last login), so I decided to update my Dell G3 15 laptop's Arch install by executing "sudo packman -Syyu".
Now apparently my wireless card "Intel Wireless 9462AC" cannot be set to up. Well, specifically wlo1 cannot be set to up, but I remember that wlo1 is the correct device.

I'm sorry that I can't post more useful information, as I am a bit of a novice when it comes to Linux in general (as in I have not used it for long, but I would like to think that I have a decent amount of knowledge since I set it up and got a window manager [i3 gaps] and Steam to work, and customised the status bar).

Just ran "dmesg | grep 'iwlwifi' | less" and scrolled down, it correctly identified the card as AC 9462. The line says "Detected Intel (R) Dual Band Wireless AC 9462, REV=0x318"

It also, rather worryingly says a few lines below, "wlo1: renamed from wlan0".

Last edited by BushMan_01 (2019-12-17 02:35:18)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64703 ?

BushMan_01

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Registered: 2019-06-30

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Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

Thanks. How do I apply Mehmet's patch to my kernel? I am struggling to understand the PKGBUILD system.
Sorry to be troublesome.

Last edited by BushMan_01 (2019-12-13 23:10:00)

loqs

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Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

Patching_packages#Applying_patches
As the kernel package automatically applies any file with a .patch extension you just need to add the patch to the source and checksum arrays.

git clone git://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git --single-branch --branch "packages/linux"
cd packages/trunk
curl -o 0001-Revert-iwlwifi-mvm-fix-scan-config-command-size.patch https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64703?getfile=18121

Modifiy the PKGBUILD here.  git diff of changes:

git diff
diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD
index 124f2dc..0ced2d4 100644
--- a/trunk/PKGBUILD
+++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ _srcname=archlinux-linux
 source=(
   "$_srcname::git+https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git?signed#tag=$_srctag"
   config         # the main kernel config file
+  0001-Revert-iwlwifi-mvm-fix-scan-config-command-size.patch
 )
 validpgpkeys=(
   'ABAF11C65A2970B130ABE3C479BE3E4300411886'  # Linus Torvalds
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ validpgpkeys=(
   '8218F88849AAC522E94CF470A5E9288C4FA415FA'  # Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
 )
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
-            '5d58a2115892839997ae7dcca226697c34b656de7685cb3eb8696451dc5100a0')
+            '5d58a2115892839997ae7dcca226697c34b656de7685cb3eb8696451dc5100a0'
+            'b65e1b52d39d0be00aa4703dfa924f530ec0b3ee503a3e2e6fe452e6ffbd827b')
 
 export KBUILD_BUILD_HOST=archlinux
 export KBUILD_BUILD_USER=$pkgbase

Then build the package then install the package makepkg generated.

BushMan_01

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Registered: 2019-06-30

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Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

I can't execute the git clone or curl because my computer cannot access the Internet due to a lack of WiFi. I managed to download the patch by going to my Dad's Windows desktop and downloading it to a USB flash drive.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

I would suggest you downgrade the kernel package to restore WiFi connectivity.

BushMan_01

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Registered: 2019-06-30

Posts: 14

Re: [solved for now] Difficulty with Intel Wireless 9462AC Card

I downgraded my kernel and headers using the pacman cache, everything works now, thanks. I guess I'll have to wait for a version without this problem.