[SOLVED]BL install breaks down wireless on fedora

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 21:08:39

Hello everybody.

As some of you may remember, I've been running Viperr6, ever since Crunchbang died on my computer, not long before Phillip announced the end.

So today, taking advantage that work is very slow (which is the reason I'm allowed to bring my lappy), I decided to install BunsenLabs into an unused partition, and give it a run.
Everything went without a hitch, but, once I finished running the post install script, I decided to go back to Viperr for a while. Then, when I opened Viperr, I found that my wireless is gone!!! What's up with that?
I have installed many other distros before, and never had a problem. Why did installing BunsenLabs break my Viperr6?

And most importantly, can anybody tell me how to fix it?
I don't know what kind of data you need, but tell me and I will post it. So far, all I can tell you is that NM doesn't even show a wireless, like the driver was never there...

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Inodoro Pereyra (2015-12-23 23:16:58)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 21:12:30

Hello IP, long time no see

Could I ask you to replace the profanity in the thread title with something a bit more family friendly please?

Can we see the output of:

ip a
lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net
dmesg|egrep 'wl|firmw|dhc'

Does the wireless card work if you load up a live ISO?

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 21:20:43

Hello HoaS. Thank you for replying.

Done! Sorry for the outburst.

I don't have a live DVD, but everything was working perfectly until I closed it to install BL.
Anyway, I'll get the info and report back.

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 21:32:52

Ok, here it is:

[bernardo@bernardo ~]$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether a0:1d:48:db:ea:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[bernardo@bernardo ~]$ lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
	DeviceName: Ralink WLAN Ralink RT3290LE Roma 802.11bgn Wi-Fi
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec]
--
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
	DeviceName: Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1984]
[bernardo@bernardo ~]$ dmesg|egrep 'wl|firmw|dhc'
[    0.000000] DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC/1984, BIOS F.22 09/26/2013
[bernardo@bernardo ~]$

What should I do?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 21:49:57

Is that output from your Fedora/ViperR system?

If it is from your Debian system then you need to install the firmware-ralink package and reboot.

For Fedora, I think you need rt61pci-firmware

I don't know Fedora at all so I would be tempted to just copy the relevant files from /lib/firmware in your Debian system over to ViperR but I'm sure there's a "correct" way to do it.

EDIT: It may be soft- or hard-blocked in Fedora -- from ViperR, look at the output of:

rfkill list all

If any of the interfaces are blocked, run (as root):

rfkill unblock all

You may have to install it first:

dnf install rfkill

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-12-23 21:54:32)

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 22:18:15

That's the output from the Viperr6 system.

So I tried the instructions you put above. rfkill was not found, so I tried "dnf install rfkill", but, not having an Internet connection... 8.(

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 22:23:14

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:

I tried "dnf install rfkill", but, not having an Internet connection... 8.(

Grab the .rpm using BunsenLabs and install that instead
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/rfkill

However, it looks like the firmware isn't loaded.

I don't know anything about firmware in Fedora

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 22:34:25

But it was loaded. So what happened?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 22:35:55

Any blacklists?

grep -R blacklist /etc/modprobe.d

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 22:54:25

Fixed it! (well, sort of).
I went to the "advanced options" for Viperr, and started it on an old kernel. Now my internet is back.

So now the question would be: how do I keep it that way? If I update now, will I get the new kernel, without losing the wireless?

Thank you HoaS, for the patience...

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 23:00:49

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:

So now the question would be: how do I keep it that way? If I update now, will I get the new kernel, without losing the wireless?

Edit the file at /etc/default/grub and change the GRUB_DEFAULT line (the entries are counted from zero) then run this command (as root):

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

EDIT: Just out of interest, which kernel version doesn't work for you?

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 23:05:55

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

EDIT: Just out of interest, which kernel version doesn't work for you?

They all worked perfectly. Once I installed BL, the last one didn't work anymore. I can't tell you the version, because BL's grub doesn't show them.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 23:08:50

Ah well, never mind.

Please add "[SOLVED]" to the thread title for the benefit of others

And perhaps change the title to "Wireless card not functioning after installation" or something else that would actually show up in search engines...

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 23:15:41

Will do. Thank you again.

Last update. Reinstalled grub2 from Viperr6, and reconfigured it, and then, when I tried the last kernel... IT WORKED!!!

So now everything is working as it was.

Finally, now I can answer your question: the kernel that had died was 4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64.

Now I'm installing rfkill... :8

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-23 23:18:05

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:

the kernel that had died was 4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64

Is ViperR still supported?

The current release is Fedora 23

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-23 23:45:35

Viperr is on version 7. I've been trying to find a way to upgrade it, but no luck yet.

PackRat · 2015-12-24 00:39:44

Viperr 8 (F23) is out -what is their usual upgrade path? Can you edit the yum repositories?

Inodoro Pereyra · 2015-12-24 23:26:00

I don't have a clue.
I've been looking at yum's man page, and there's nothing like the "get dist-upgrade" in apt, so I'm lost.

Maybe I'll make an appearance in the Fedora forum...

But not now. Now I have a chicken to eat. Merry Christmas everybody.

Last edited by Inodoro Pereyra (2015-12-24 23:26:58)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-24 23:29:53

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:

I've been looking at yum's man page

I think Fedora has switched to dnf(8) now.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade

Of course I have no idea if this actually applies to ViperR so you should probably ask on their forums.

EDIT: Happy Christmas!

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-12-24 23:31:28)

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