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techforay

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Registered: 2021-03-08

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Arch on Surface Pro 4

I have installed Arch on a surface pro 4 using the gnome desktop and both the latest kernel and the latest LTS kernel.  The most annoying issue i have is the Wifi consistantly drops off and wont connect without a reboot.  I had this problem on a Ubuntu based system and solved it by installing the Jakeaday kernel and tools.  I have been trying to do that for Arch but have not found the process to do so.  Can someone point me in the right direction to solve this issue.

Awebb

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Re: Arch on Surface Pro 4

"google: surface book 4 wifi linux" results in a lot of threads. People talk about a "marvell firmware" being "in a bad state". I've found this list of quirks: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux- … 897-quirks, which states that...

Surface Pro 4 (SP4) [needs confirmation] Card reset needs PCI device to be put into D3cold state (https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/58)

I've found your Jakeday kernel in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linu … ace-pro-4/, but the comments say...

Frans-Willem commented on 2020-08-25 07:49
Orphaned this package as I am no longer using this kernel. I've switched to the repository available here: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux- … repository and highly recommend using this for your Surface. They do a much better job maintaining the packages than I ever did

You could either use that repository directly (I have no idea how trustworthy those folks are), or you could review their PKGBUILDs or even build them yourself here: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux- … r/pkg/arch

EDIT:

Disclaimer... I don't have a Surface, nothing tested, all google-fu.

Last edited by Awebb (2021-03-09 11:26:24)