wifi under slitaz 5.1

Hi all,

i was very impatient to test this new version 5.1 of slitaz but no way to connect under wifi ( no wifi material is recognized ) and my box is not functional for the moment so i can't connect under Ethernet.

Should you add in a new version those missing wifi driver in a next version of slitaz ?

Thanks in advance

Hey,

Cant you tell us what are your wifi and eth card ? So we can include your drivers in the next ISOs

Hi,

Here's my 3 devices

Asus Eeebox B2
Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe [1814:0781]

Gmktek M6 plus
MediaTek, Inc  RZ616 wifi 6E 160mhx

Dell Inspiron 15
Realtek 8821CE Wireless lan 80211ac PCI-E NIC

Thanks in advance

I have also a Chromebook with an Intel wireless 7265 driver

Thanks for the list, it is very useful. Good news: all four cards will be supported out of the box on the next cooking ISOs.

The kernel drivers are already there: linux-lts 6.12 builds rt2800pci,rtw88_8821ce, mt7921e (which also drives the MT7922) and iwlwifi, all in the linux-lts-wireless package. What was missing on the ISOs was the firmware. We updated it to linux-firmware 20261019, split into small
packages by hardware family:

- Asus Eeebox B2, Ralink RT2790 [1814:0781]: rt2800pci + firmware-rt2x00
  (rt2860.bin). Pascal already confirmed this chip works on his MSI Wind.
- Dell Inspiron 15, Realtek 8821CE: rtw88_8821ce + firmware-rtw88
- GMKtec M6 Plus, MediaTek RZ616 (MT7922, Wi-Fi 6E): mt7921e +
  firmware-mediatek-mt7922, which also has the Bluetooth firmware
- Chromebook, Intel Wireless 7265: iwlmvm + firmware-iwlwifi-7265

The x86_64 ISOs will also carry the firmware of the Intel 7260, 8260/8265 and 9260/9560 and of the MediaTek MT7921, which are common on laptops and mini PCs. That adds about 4 MB to the ISO.

The commits:
- firmware 20261019, one package per hardware family:
  https://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/b4120295a428
- kernel: MediaTek mt76, Realtek rtw88/rtw89, Qualcomm ath11k/ath12k...:
  https://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/b41272d60199
- ISOs: Realtek Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Ethernet and Ralink firmware:
  https://hg.slitaz.org/flavors/rev/a2cadb37046c
- ISOs: MediaTek MT7921/MT7922 and Intel 7260/7265/8000/9000 firmware:
  https://hg.slitaz.org/flavors/rev/26b1c38ac1d5

If you run an older cooking ISO and have a wired connection, you can
already install the firmware and reboot, for example:

  # spk-add firmware-rtw88

(or firmware-rt2x00, firmware-mediatek-mt7922, firmware-iwlwifi-7265).

Once the next ISOs are out, please tell us if Wi-Fi works on your machines. TazHelper is the easiest way to send us a report.

@pankso

Regarding Intel Wi-Fi support for the upcoming 64-bit cooking ISOs:

I tested SliTaz 5.1 on an Asus VivoBook 15 X571LI. My Wi-Fi card is an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (Harrison Peak / 400 Series CNVi, and I couldn't make it work.

Here is the exact lspci -nnk output:

00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation 400 Series Chipset Family CNVi Wi-Fi [8086:06f0]
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) AX201 160MHz 2x2 [Harrison Peak] [8086:0074]
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Could you please make sure the firmware files for the Intel AX201 / AX series (e.g. iwlwifi-Qu* / iwlwifi-cc*) are also included in firmware-iwlwifi for the next cooking?

I have more laptops laying around, I will test them asap, and report back if needed.

@ricardo-simoes

Thanks for the report! The AX201 firmware (iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0, iwlwifi-Qu-b0/c0-hr-b0, iwlwifi-cc-a0) is already in firmware-iwlwifi-ax, which is on the core and firefox x86_64 cooking ISOs since 20 October (not on the base ISO). Which ISO did you use (flavor, arch and date)? Could you post the output of dmesg | grep -i iwlwifi and iw dev? If the firmware loads fine, please try setting WIFI_WPA_DRIVER="nl80211" in /etc/network.conf and reconnecting: the default is still the old wext driver and modern Intel cards need nl80211.

Reports from your other laptops are very welcome!

@pankso update, tested on the real laptop (Asus VivoBook 15 X571LI, AX201)
from the live slitaz-firefox-x86_64-cooking.iso (iso_date 20261110,
sha256 5ef51fa05b04e20f3363b29a57834f0494a2397572072e78cd779f5e78ad4562).

The Wi-Fi works at system level:
- dmesg: "Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz", "loaded firmware version
  77.563a6e92.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode op_mode iwlmvm"
- wlan0 exists, scan lists networks, and using the Trame TUI
  (wifi > scan > connect) I connected to my access point; the tray icon
  shows Wi-Fi.
- /etc/network.conf already has WIFI_WPA_DRIVER="nl80211,wext" and
  wpa_supplicant runs with -Dnl80211,wext. Link is fine (-38 dBm,
  tx 117 MBit/s HE-MCS 3 NSS 2).

But the Wi-Fi GUI keeps showing "No Wi-Fi card ready. No Wi-Fi card found,
or its driver or firmware is missing", and its toggle does nothing, even while
connected. Running it as root or as the normal user gives the same result,
so it is not a permissions issue.

The Hardware window has a similar problem: "32-bit", Processor "?",
Memory "0 bytes", 0 packages, empty Architecture/Kernel (VM and real
hardware), while TazHelper, uname and free report x86_64, 4 cores,
1926 MB, 322 packages. Both GUIs may share the same detection code.

Also: "lspci -nnk | grep -i network" prints nothing, and rfkill is not
installed on the ISO.

@pankso Also regarding WIFI_WPA_DRIVER: on this ISO /etc/network.conf already has
WIFI_WPA_DRIVER="nl80211,wext", and wpa_supplicant runs with -Dnl80211,wext.
The link is fine (signal -38 dBm, tx 117 MBit/s HE-MCS 3 NSS 2), so the
driver choice is not the problem. The issue is only that the Wi-Fi GUI does
not detect the card and its toggle does nothing.

@ricardo-simoes Thanks a lot for the detailed report, it was spot on and let us find the bug quickly.

It is not a Wi-Fi or hardware problem: it is the locale. I guess you booted the ISO in Portuguese? The Trame GUI reads the trame ... --json output with a small JSON parser, and that parser read numbers with the C library function strtod(), which follows the locale. In pt_BR (and fr_FR, de_DE...) the decimal separator is a comma, so 212, was taken as a decimal number, the JSON comma was eaten, and every answer from trame was rejected. That is why the Hardware page fell back to "32-bit", "?" and "0 bytes", and the Wi-Fi page to "No Wi-Fi card ready" while you were connected. Our test machines run English or Swiss French, which use a decimal point, so we never saw it.

I reproduced your exact screens with the 20261110 ISO in pt_BR. The fix makes the parser independent of the locale; numbers are still shown the local way (e.g. "3,1 GB"):
https://hg.slitaz.org/trame/rev/a629215d0299

It will be in the next Trame release and the next cooking ISOs. Until then, booting the ISO in English avoids the bug.

The lspci -nnk output and the missing rfkill are noted, we will look at them separately.

@pankso I confirm I booted the ISO in Portuguese (Portugal) pt-latin1 keyboard layout

@ricardo-simoes Thanks for confirming, that was it. Portuguese (Portugal) uses a decimal comma, which broke how the Trame GUI read numbers. I tested the fix with pt_PT.UTF-8: the Wi-Fi page shows the connection and the Hardware page shows the right values.

The fix is in Trame 1.2.11, released today:
https://hg.slitaz.org/trame/rev/a629215d0299

It will be on the next cooking ISOs. On a system with a working connection, you can already get it with spk-up once the packages are on the mirror (within the hour). Until then, booting in English avoids the bug.

Thanks again for the very precise report!

One more family for the list: Realtek rtw89 (Wi-Fi 6, e.g. RTL8852AE in the ThinkPad E14 Gen 3). The driver is in linux-lts-wireless, but the firefox-x86_64 flavor has no rtw89 firmware. Adding firmware-rtw89-8851b, -8852a, -8852b, -8852c and -8922a to the flavor made Wi-Fi work. Details: https://maille.slitaz.org/post/36