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W54J04S07T

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Registered: 2016-06-27

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Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

On a old ( 15 yearish ) Acer Aspire laptop, running the 6.18.1 kernel, the
Intel WiFi link 5100 device can not switch on ( no response to pressing the wifi button).

It works as usual using the 6.12.62 LTS kernel.

Is the wifi driver missing in 6.18.1?  I thought the kernels
use the same linux-firmware-xxxx files for drivers???
Any known interface issues on 6.18.1 ( other than nVidia )?

Any pointers on this problem?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

If it is not https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/171 please post the full `dmesg` output from a boot with the issue.

W54J04S07T

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Registered: 2016-06-27

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

If it is not https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/171 please post the full `dmesg` output from a boot with the issue.

It seems to be that issue. 
This from 6.18.2 kernel;

sudo dmesg |grep wifi
[    7.064503] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[    7.067848] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a1, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a1 wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a1
[    7.067886] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: PCI dev 4232/1201, rev=0x54, rfid=0xd55555d5
[    7.067895] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
[    7.076038] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Driver unable to support your firmware API. Driver supports FW core 4294967294..2, firmware is 2.
[    7.076355] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-4.ucode failed with error -2
[    7.076515] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-3.ucode failed with error -2
[    7.076609] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode failed with error -2
[    7.076841] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode failed with error -2
[    7.076850] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
[    7.076854] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-5000-1
[    7.076858] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-5000-5
[    7.076862] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

i3wm_user

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Registered: 2025-01-26

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

Exactly the same issue here, cannot install arch from latest iso.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

Then wait for the next iso or use an older iso for the install (or roll your own iso with a new kernel)

i3wm_user

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Registered: 2025-01-26

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

Then wait for the next iso or use an older iso for the install (or roll your own iso with a new kernel)

I used the latest one, installing via ethernet, then rolling back the kernel and kernel-headers packages to 6.17.9 with downgrade for the wifi to work. Thanks for the suggestions.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

You can upgrade, the issue is fixed in 6.18.3, the ISO just had 6.18.2

i3wm_user

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Re: Intel wifi device not seen by 6.18.1

You can upgrade, the issue is fixed in 6.18.3, the ISO just had 6.18.2

Good to know, thanks!