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Hamma:
Howdy folks!

After boot I hit the wifi icon and it opens a sudo time limited window.  With no easily found documentation, please, the easiest way to achieve a wireless connection?

I was able to pre-load a few pkgs and modprobe the correct driver, but, what am I missing here?

No text editor, no file manager? Sure I can move around in a console, but, geez, does everyone without a wired connection have to go through this?

Surely it's not THAT complicated...

Juanito:
Typically, wifi drivers require firmware to be loaded first.

Do you know what wifi hardware you have?

After you double-click on the wifi icon and try to connect to an access point, do you get something like this:
--- Code: ---$ dmesg
...
platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
platform regulatory.0: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: regulatory.db
cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 17.459231.0 op_mode iwlmvm
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7260, REV=0x144
iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: base HW address: a0:a8:cd:2c:3e:13
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-mvm-rs'
wlan0: authenticate with a0:55:4f:66:d5:10
wlan0: send auth to a0:55:4f:66:d5:10 (try 1/3)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with a0:55:4f:66:d5:10 (try 1/3)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from a0:55:4f:66:d5:10 (capab=0x111 status=0 aid=3)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: Limiting TX power to 23 (23 - 0) dBm as advertised by a0:55:4f:66:d5:10

--- End code ---

Hamma:
Hello Juanito,

You are 100% right. Coming from more automated systems, the thought of firmware getting loaded totally slipped my mind.

My current ride loads rt2870.bin. At the time it must have been a bit of frustration preventing me from logical thought.

Not in the "optional" folder or ftp.nluug.nl tcz directory, can you tell me whether it's available and from where?

IIRC, firmware isn't kernel specific. I could probably as well hijack a copy from elsewhere..

Hamma:
Now I see firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz which supplies /usr/local/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin.

Whoops! Already included. I'll check dmesg after loading my driver.

Hamma:
Should my firmware auto-load?

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