iw dev does nothing for wireless connection

publicus · 2015-09-05 05:22:01

Hello,

I'm going through my installation and at one point I do iw dev, hoping to find all of the devices. However, nothing is printed. Literally, nothing. The command is there and I know that I have a wireless connection on my iPad and I'm certain that my laptop has the hardware to handle a wifi connection... so I'm lost...

# iw dev
#

This is on a newly burnt Arch CD. I never had this happen and I'm a little bit lost at this point.

CarlD · 2015-09-05 09:51:12

publicus wrote:

Hello,
I'm going through my installation and at one point I do iw dev, hoping to find all of the devices. However, nothing is printed. Literally, nothing. The command is there and I know that I have a wireless connection on my iPad and I'm certain that my laptop has the hardware to handle a wifi connection... so I'm lost...
# iw dev
#
This is on a newly burnt Arch CD. I never had this happen and I'm a little bit lost at this point.

try:

# ip link

Trilby · 2015-09-05 11:28:23

Is this on the ipad or the laptop? You say you are sure they have wireless hardware, but what is that hardware? Follow the instructions in the wiki to know what information would be relevant to provide. As is there is nothing here to work with.

publicus · 2015-09-06 16:15:24

Trilby wrote:

Is this on the ipad or the laptop? You say you are sure they have wireless hardware, but what is that hardware? Follow the instructions in the wiki to know what information would be relevant to provide. As is there is nothing here to work with.

I'm curious if this is relevant, but when I boot from CD, I see a nouveau SCHED ERROR message printed. Is this an issue?

Trilby · 2015-09-06 16:21:22

Eh, what? I have no idea, I joined this thread to help with wireless issues, not nouveau issues. That message is certainly not relevant to this thread, but CarlID's and my previous posts are - though they seem to have been ignored.

publicus · 2015-09-06 16:31:04

CarlD wrote:

publicus wrote:
Hello,
I'm going through my installation and at one point I do iw dev, hoping to find all of the devices. However, nothing is printed. Literally, nothing. The command is there and I know that I have a wireless connection on my iPad and I'm certain that my laptop has the hardware to handle a wifi connection... so I'm lost...
# iw dev
#
This is on a newly burnt Arch CD. I never had this happen and I'm a little bit lost at this point.
try:
# ip link

I can see 1 for lo (loopback) and 2 enp8s0 (NO CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IP).

I did not find anything with a w in front of it to tell me that it's a wireless connection.

publicus · 2015-09-06 16:41:36

Trilby wrote:

Is this on the ipad or the laptop? You say you are sure they have wireless hardware, but what is that hardware? Follow the instructions in the wiki to know what information would be relevant to provide. As is there is nothing here to work with.

This is on my Toshiba laptop. Can I even install ArchLinux on an iPad? Is that even possible?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-06 16:51:10

Please post the full output of `lspci`

EDIT: You can use a pastebin clent to generate a URL that can be posted here.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-09-06 16:52:33)

Trilby · 2015-09-06 17:00:30

No I don't think you can run arch on an iPad, that's why I asked: your first post was not clear and I was concerned that this was a spin-off or derivative distro (archARM?). But if this is on a laptop that's fine - but how about actually telling abount the wireless hardware already? Or don't bother, I give up.

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iw dev does nothing for wireless connection

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