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hmalissa

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Registered: 2020-01-28

Posts: 5

Intel Wireless-AC 7265

I'm having problems getting the Intel Wireless-AC 7265 wireless network adapter on my Intel Compute Stick STK1A32SC to work.
First, I followed the instructions in Network configuration/Wireless, section 1 'Device driver':

# lspci -k
...
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 69)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi
...

Then:

# dmesg | grep firmware
[    0.478545] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls
[   12.361841] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[   12.581715] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 29.163394017.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[   12.920925] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.

and:

# dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[   12.551456] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   12.580665] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug destination: EXTERNAL_DRAM
[   12.580672] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug configuration: 0
[   12.581715] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 29.163394017.0 op_mode iwlmvm
[   12.903002] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7265, REV=0x210
[   12.917106] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[   12.920925] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.
[   12.929113] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address: 50:76:af:5e:9b:a1
[   13.029349] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
[  590.751111] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[  590.840507] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[  590.843974] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: FW already configured (0) - re-configuring
[  590.918079] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[  591.007892] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
[  591.010410] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: FW already configured (0) - re-configuring

Since I need to connect to a WPA-protected router, I installed NetworkManager following the instructions on NetworkManager.

The adapter seems to be working on some level, because I can get a list of nearby wifi networks (including the network that I want to connect to) with:

# nmcli device wifi list

But when I try to connect, I get:

# nmcli device wifi connect myssid password mypassword
Error: Connection activation failed: (5) IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.).

Simultaneously:

# nmcli monitor
myssid: connection profile changed
wlp1s0: using connection 'myssid'
wlp1s0: connecting (prepare)
Networkmanager is now in the 'connecting' state
wlp1s0: connecting (configuring)
wlp1s0: connecting (need authentication)
myssid: connection profile changed
wlp1s0: connecting (prepare)
wlp1s0: connecting (configuring)
myssid: connection profile changed
wlp1s0: connecting (getting IP configuration)
Connectivity is now 'limited'
wlp1s0: connection failed
Networkmanager is now in the 'disconnected' state
wlp1s0: disconnected
myssid: connection profile changed
Connectivity is now 'none'

So, something seems to be wrong.
If I try to use WPA supplicant directly, I don't even get to see a list of nearby wifi networks:

# wpa_cli

> scan
OK

But

CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS

never comes.

What am I missing here?
Thanks a lot,

Hans

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,221

Re: Intel Wireless-AC 7265

Did you configure the regulatory domain correctly?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ory_domain

You could also try to disable 802.11n or change to swcrypto
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ss#iwlwifi

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hmalissa

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Registered: 2020-01-28

Posts: 5

Re: Intel Wireless-AC 7265

Did you configure the regulatory domain correctly?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ory_domain

You could also try to disable 802.11n or change to swcrypto
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … ss#iwlwifi

I tried both, but neither solve the problem.
I did figure out that it seems to be related to the WPA security; I can connect to any open WiFi, but not to the ones that are WPA encrypted.