Wireless connection Devuan Linux 1.0.0

rdsmith · 01-16-2018, 08:49 PM

How do you activate the wireless connection in Devuan Linux 1.0.0? I have tried numerous times but the connection always fails. Usual connection to most distros works flawlessly but I cannot establish the connection in Devuan 1.0.0

ferrari · 01-16-2018, 09:17 PM

Starting from the top...so that we're not left to speculate...

1. Wireless hardware? Driver loaded?

Code:

/sbin/lspci -nnk|grep -A3 '\[02'

2. What network device nodes are reported? Is there a wireless network device node present?

Code:

ip a

Code:

sudo /sbin/iwconfig

3. Are you using NetworkManager within a desktop environment (which one?) to manage your network connectivity, or via the traditional Debian /etc/network/interfaces configuration and CLI commands perhaps?

https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUs...WiFi_interface

Brains · 01-16-2018, 11:24 PM

@ ferrari
Not all Linux newbies are Linux geeks.

@ rdsmith
What ferrari is saying, is to run the command in the first code box as a normal user without the /sbin/ part, copy the rest of the command starting from the lspci and paste it in a terminal. Then post the output of that command back here, this will tell others what wireless device your pc has and possibly what driver is loaded. An example follows in the code box below:

Code:

jo@debian:~$ lspci -nnk|grep -A3 '\[02'
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
        Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [1a56:1535]
        Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
        Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
--
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1969:e0a1] (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1462:1143]
        Kernel driver in use: alx
        Kernel modules: alx

Use the "Post reply", not the "Quick post link", highlight the output of the command and hit the hashtag above the post pane to wrap code tags around it.
The other two code boxes he/she posted are also commands, the last one requires to be done as root or sudo, but again, omit the "/sbin/" part. That don't work on my Debian as in the example below:

Code:

jo@debian:~$ /sbin/lspci -nnk|grep -A3 '\[02'
bash: /sbin/lspci: No such file or directory

Post the output of the three commands and you'll get some answers.