Description of problem: PeaqC1011 (UEFI) with intel Atom had its wifi working OK in M7 and all previous test ISO's of M8, including the "final" of 17/2. Installing (not upgrading!!) the 22/2 M8 final over the 17/2 version breaks this device. I will add the output of lspcidrake of this notebook from the M7 installation and the latest failing M8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 12379 [details] lspcidrake output from working M7
Created attachment 12380 [details] lspcidrake output from failing M8
please provide dmesg and journal from boot until it has tried to connect to a wireless net also is iwlwifi-firmware installed ?
(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #1) > Created attachment 12379 [details] > lspcidrake output from working M7 Was it actually working here ? It does not show up at all
To comment 4: yes it works perfectly.
ah, it does not need to even be an intel wifi on that rig... and by the looks of it, not connected directly to either pci or usb ... so I really need dmesg from both mga7 and mga8 and if you install 5.10.16-1.mga7 from mga7 updates_testing... does that stop the wifi from working too ?
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@comment 3 and 6 Yes, iwlwifi-firmware is installed. I am unsure what you mean by "dmesg" as this file does not exist. Found https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Dmesgs_compared and executed command journalctl -k --boot=0 > m8wififmsg.txt Attaching here. Doing same on M7 in a minute.
Created attachment 12387 [details] messages from start till failed wifi connection attempt
Created attachment 12388 [details] M7 messages with successful wifi connection
M7 journal attached. Test M7 with new kernel coming up.
I don't see that 5.10.16-1.mga7 kernel in mga7 updates_testing
weird... I see it here: http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/mageia.org/distrib/7/x86_64/media/core/updates_testing/kernel-desktop-5.10.16-1.mga7-1-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm
I check in http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates and just now still not visible there.
yeah, I haven't assigned it to QA, so it wont show up there... but it's in testing to be able to point users on it for tests to see if it's already fixed in newer kernels... the next one actually ending up in QA will probably be something like 5.10.19 or so... I'm still looking at some patches for other issues
OK, downloaded from that link, installed on M7, rebooted, wifi is OK.
Just my 2c: I think concentrating on M7 might be a waste of time. The issue was not there in the M8 of 17/2, it appeared on the M8 of 22/2.
the reason I wanted the mga7 test was to see if it was the kernel that broke... as the 5.10.16-1.mga7 matches exactly the mga8 release kernel (just recompiled on mga7) Interestingly I see the same WARNING: splats in both mga7 and mga8 outputs, but only mga8 fails to work and seems to be a RTL8723BS wireless in that system
can you grab the same log when booting 5.10.16-1.mga7 on mga7 so I can compare exact same kernel on both mga7 and mga8
Created attachment 12390 [details] Succesful boot with M7 kernel 5.10.16, wifi OK
thanks. Can you on Mageia 8 try 5.10.18-3.mga8 from: https://tmb.nu/Mageia/8/bugs/28429/ I have added fixes that should hopefully fix the uvcvideo splat and updates the rtl8723bs driver to 5.12-rc1 level
(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #19) > Created attachment 12390 [details] > Succesful boot with M7 kernel 5.10.16, wifi OK From that log ... Feb 25 16:14:41 mach7.hviaene.thuis kernel: rtl8723bs: acquire FW from file:rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin $ rpm -q -f /usr/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin rtlwifi-firmware-20201118-1.mga7.nonfree The installer does not use nonfree firmware as per the release notes.
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(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #0) > Description of problem: > PeaqC1011 (UEFI) with intel Atom had its wifi working OK in M7 and all > previous test ISO's of M8, including the "final" of 17/2. > Installing (not upgrading!!) the 22/2 M8 final over the 17/2 version breaks > this device. Reading this part again... you state "final" of 17/2 works... and "final" of 22/2 dont work... but between those, there were only 4 fixes. - fixed release notes - fixed installer left background, logo and selection text - fixed non-english/french translations of sddm "username" - fix pulseaudio xinit script to match newer startplasma-x11 in SESSSION so the questions are: - what did you install with (both times), what DE, what iso ? - did you do anything diffently while configuring ?
I strongly suspect the wifi on previous installs was configured after booting to the installed system, instead of trying to get updates at the media selection screen near the beginning of the install.
@Thomas Comment 20 Downloaded that kernel rpm, used urpmi to install it, rebooted and BINGO, I could connect wlan0. Just I will do another boot to check it now automatically connects, at boot, I'll let you know soon.
Did a warm restart, and had to use MCC to get the wifi started, that gave a strange situation as the net applet in MATE and the MCC - netwerk center showed the wifi OK, but a ping to www.google.be or any connection in Firefox failed. Used MCC to change the wifi connection anyway as I want it to be (fixed IP, connecting to router as gateway, to own DNS server and provider"s DNS server and defining full FQDN), that went OK. Made another warm restart, again net applet in MATE and the MCC - netwerk center give OK, but not really working. Finally made a cold restart and automatically getting the wifi connection working OK and configured as I want it. I've had this kind of situation in the past where I really needed a cold restart to get things working. This seems to be one of the quirks of this thing since I got this some months ago. So, if you have no further questions or info you want, you may close this issue. Tx a lot.
@Herman, can you grab the log from running with 5.10.18-3.mga8 too ? I'd like to see if I got all the WARNING splats matched or if there is still some to fix up
Created attachment 12399 [details] Succesful boot with M8 kernel 5.10.18, wifi OK
(In reply to Herman Viaene from comment #27) > Created attachment 12399 [details] > Succesful boot with M8 kernel 5.10.18, wifi OK This seems to be near completion. Final update in Bug 28471.
Assignee: bugsquad => kernelDepends on: (none) => 28471
Source RPM: (none) => kernel-5.10.16-1.mga8.src.rpm
Depends on: (none) => 28470
Depends on: 28471 => (none)
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0101.html
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
The problem appears again on kernel 5.10.20
Resolution: FIXED => (none)Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
well, we have not changed anything regarding that hw. does it help with a cold boot ? meaning if you shutdown your computer completely, then wait a bit and start it again.
I do that all the time.
I cann't explain, but leaving the system alone for some minutes after starting, has the wifi coming up OK. But when trying to force it sooner, no joy. Let it be......
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED