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aishwisha

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Registered: 2021-08-23

Posts: 1

Wireless card doesn't show up in device list.

Just installed Arch on my dell inspiron, everything works / functions as intended and the ethernet is working just fine, however it doesn't seem to be able to recognise the wireless network card. 
When I attempt to connect using iwctl, and try to list devices, it comes up as completely blank. Nothing is found.
I can't seem to find a solution that works.

The output for

 lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net 

is as follows:

  
        Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:08d1]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0042] (rev 31)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:1810]
	Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
	Kernel modules: ath10k_pci 

The output for

 dmesg 

where the kernel driver was listed is something I'm not really capable of deciphering.. so any help is appreciated!!

[    4.067119] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: Failed to find firmware-N.bin (N between 2 and 6) from ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0: -2
[    4.067125] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
[    4.067127] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,310

Re: Wireless card doesn't show up in device list.

You most likely forgot to install linux-firmware

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,007

Re: Wireless card doesn't show up in device list.

Have you not installed linux-firmware which supplies /usr/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin?