[SOLVED] Wireless card unsupported on new ISO

09 March 2022, 00:36:24

Hi Artix Linux Forums,

I have an old Surface Pro 3 on which a base install with OpenRC from 2021-07-26 worked perfectly fine. Sometime in early February (maybe late January) I upgraded the system, and the interface for my wireless card (mlan0) no longer shows when running "ip a".

Later I tried doing a fresh install with OpenRC from the 2022-03-06. The live environment does not show mlan0 (and so I cannot use wpa_supplicant), nor does an install and reboot to the non-live environment show mlan0.

Trying to reinstall from the old ISO, I connected with wpa_supplicant and used basestrap. Of course, the resulting system was up-to-date, and so it did not show mlan0.

Maybe there is a Marvell driver package I am missing that is no longer included in the live ISO by default.

I made a list of suspect packages that have been updated.
* inet-utils
* intel-ucode 20210600-1 --> 20210608-1
* inxi 3.3.00-1 --> 3.3.04-1
* ipw2100-fw
* ipw2200-fw
* linux 5.13.4.artix 1-1 --> 5.16.1.artix 1-1
* linux-firmware 20210716.b7c134f-1 --> 20220119.0cba2b3-2
* linux-headers 5.13.4.artix 1-1 --> 5.16.1.artix 1-1
* modemmanager 1.16.8-1 --> 1.18.4
* nbd 3.21-2 --> 3.23-1

Please let me know if there is any command output that might help from my system. I'm continuing to look at this when I get away from work.

Re: Wireless card unsupported on new ISO

Reply #1 – 09 March 2022, 04:08:20

system/linux-firmware-marvell Try that package ; linux-firmware was split up a bit some time ago

Re: Wireless card unsupported on new ISO

Reply #2 – 09 March 2022, 06:19:04

Thank you ndowens! I booted into the old live disk, temporarily set up wpa_supplicant, and basestrapped that bad boy down. mlan0 is back!