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vergessen

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Registered: 2019-12-29

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Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Greetings all, as the title says, I just did a fresh install on my laptop, which has the [dreaded] Qualcom QCA9377 network card.  The system sees the interface, but on a 'ip link set wlp1s0 up', the device is shown as

2: wkp1s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> ....

Yes, I have linux-firmware installed and up to date (20191220.6871bff-1).
I have added ipv6.disable=1 as well as pcie_aspm=off to grub config

dmesg doesn't really show anything out of the ordinary except the message of:
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: unsupported HTC service id: 1536

Anyone have any ideas on what I'm missing, outside the fact that apparently the QCA9377 chipset is flaky, at best?

Thanks in advance

Scimmia

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Did you do anything to actually connect?

vergessen

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

I added my information to wpa_supplicant's config per SOP and then ran it (wpa_supplicant .... ).  wpa_cli > scan > scan results show nothing.

Trilby

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Stop using elipses in place of the actual commands and output that would let us understand what is happening.

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vergessen

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Apologies, this is on another laptop.

# wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp1s0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
#wpa_cli
wpa_cli v2.9
Copyright (c) 2004-2018 Jouni Malinen <j@fi> and contributors

This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details

Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlp1s0'

Interactive mode
> scan
OK
> scan_results
bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid
>

Trilby

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Is that the complete output from wpa_cli?  It shoud immediately report `<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED` after the OK in response to 'scan'.  And shortly after that it should also report `<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS`.  If you use the command 'scan_results' prior to it reporting that it has scan results, then an empty list is not that unusual.  However, not reporting that the scan has started at all would be odd.

But in any case, please run the wpa_supplicant in the foreground (remove the -B flag) so we can actually see what is going on.  You can direct output to a file and move that (e.g., via flash drive) to the other computer to post if ethernet isn't an option.

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vergessen

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

On entering the sub command scan to wpa_cli, it prints out OK and immediately returns control in the prompt >.

Running wpa_supplicant as suggested and redirecting to a file (while tailing said file) only shows:  'Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant'.  Nothing more or less.

vergessen

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Re: Fresh install on Lenovo thnkpad no internet

Also, FWIW, rfkill only shows wlan and bluetooth, both with a state of unblocked for both soft and hard.