Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I have only used fedora with an ethernet, now I am having to use wifi.
On 2/15/2023 6:09 PM, Reon Beon via users wrote:
I have tried everything here, and so more on the man page. Nothing seems to work. This is an error I get, I have no idea what it means;
Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: Device class NMDeviceGeneric had no complete_connection method
Like I say I have never used this nmcli or a wireless connection before with fedora.
On 2/15/23 22:39, Bill Cunningham wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I have only used fedora with an ethernet, now I am having to use wifi.
What wireless usb are you using? Drivers can be a major problem. Many long stories with Realtec
I am using a chip made by ralink. I believe the drivers are all there. As for what else is needed by kernels nowadays IDK. I might have to reinstall everything with a basic desktop or workstation install. The thing with the minimal install with the network iso is are you going to get all you need. I was able to get it working for download and install. Maybe there's a text file somewhere needing edited.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 11:30 PM Robert McBroom via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 2/15/23 22:39, Bill Cunningham wrote:
Does anyone have any idea how to turn on wireless from the cli? ip add is extremely complicated as well as ifconfig which is I guess deprecated. I had to reinstall everything and it was detected when rebooting no wifi. Can I get online in a simple manner. One can I guess use iw somehow too. I have only used fedora with an ethernet, now I am having to use wifi.
What wireless usb are you using? Drivers can be a major problem. Many long stories with Realtec _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 1:15 AM Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
I am using a chip made by ralink. I believe the drivers are all there. As for what else is needed by kernels nowadays IDK. I might have to reinstall everything with a basic desktop or workstation install. The thing with the minimal install with the network iso is are you going to get all you need. I was able to get it working for download and install. Maybe there's a text file somewhere needing edited.
There have been problems with other chipsets due to vendors either blocking distribution of proprietary drivers or failing to make the changes to proprietary drivers required by recent kernels.
https://linux-hardware.org/ will let you search for your hardware and show you which drivers (if any) work with your wifi chip, but beware that the same chip name may cover a range of models so you need to look closely at version number and bus ID's. It can be helpful if you can find a live distro where wifi works so you get full details of the chips ID and name of a working driver. There are 160 reports that include ralink network/wireless, some working, some not working.
For some chips where the vendor doesn't support current kernels there are multiple projects to provide drivers for current kernels, but you may need to try several different drivers to find one that fits your use case.