No wlan0 on older installation

[pottzie]

I've had Sabayon on my PC for over a year, but I've always used Ethernet. I'm trying to get a usb wireless working on it, but so far I haven't gotten wlan0 (or whatever wireless shows up as now.) How can I query bash to bring wlan0 or it's replacement up?

[Fitzcarraldo]

You need to supply more information. Post the output of the following commands issued as root user:

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lspci
lsusb
lsmod
ifconfig

[pottzie]

Weird that lsusb wasn't recognized by bash. I'm using a Belkin usb F5D7050 that's been in the kernel forever, a quick search shows it being rt73 in 2006.

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larry-pc larry # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.6 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Security Device
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 5337 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xx/62xx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102/VT6103 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M890 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller (rev 10)
larry-pc larry # lsusb
bash: lsusb: command not found
larry-pc larry # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rt73usb                23304  0
ppdev                   7048  0
rt2500usb              19080  0
rt2x00usb               8772  2 rt73usb,rt2500usb
rt2x00lib              34986  3 rt73usb,rt2x00usb,rt2500usb
p54usb                 11648  0
p54common              27570  1 p54usb
mac80211              367343  4 p54common,rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,p54usb
cfg80211              223908  3 mac80211,p54common,rt2x00lib
crc_ccitt               1595  1 p54common
snd_hda_codec_realtek    55848  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    51604  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
input_leds              2816  0
coretemp                5704  0
serio_raw               4608  0
pcspkr                  1920  0
snd_hda_intel          22080  4
via_rhine              21712  0
i2c_viapro              6360  0
mii                     4192  1 via_rhine
shpchp                 22207  0
via_agp                 5760  1
floppy                 56209  0
fjes                   20213  0
parport_pc             27945  0
tpm_tis                10648  0
tpm                    29171  1 tpm_tis
sch_fq_codel            7616  2
ipv6                  335307  22
virtio_pci             14071  0
virtio_scsi            10641  0
virtio_blk              8864  0
virtio_net             22002  0
virtio_console         18660  0
virtio_balloon          5714  0
virtio_ring            11059  6 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon,virtio_console,virtio_scsi
virtio                  5511  6 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon,virtio_console,virtio_scsi
xts                     3143  0
gf128mul                5915  1 xts
aes_x86_64              7631  0
sha512_generic          5913  0
sha256_generic         10457  0
iscsi_tcp               9070  0
libiscsi_tcp           12474  1 iscsi_tcp
tg3                   150285  0
ptp                    10716  1 tg3
pps_core                8769  1 ptp
e1000                 114501  0
fuse                   79317  3
overlay                33885  0
xfs                   556617  0
nfs                   121455  0
lockd                  57969  1 nfs
grace                   1922  1 lockd
sunrpc                178698  2 nfs,lockd
jfs                   163961  0
reiserfs              222884  0
ext4                  371722  1
jbd2                   56816  1 ext4
ext2                   62239  0
mbcache                 4178  3 ext2,ext4
firewire_core          49126  0
sl811_hcd              16208  0
xhci_plat_hcd           3844  0
xhci_pci                5214  0
xhci_hcd              140188  2 xhci_plat_hcd,xhci_pci
ohci_pci                4296  0
ohci_hcd               35324  1 ohci_pci
sx8                    13092  0
imm                    10776  0
hid_generic             1449  0
pata_pcmcia            10268  0
pcmcia                 43708  1 pata_pcmcia
uhci_hcd               33299  0
snd_hda_codec          86895  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core           45577  4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               6058  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                80870  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_core
snd_timer              20199  1 snd_pcm
snd                    58251  15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
ehci_pci                4591  0
ehci_hcd               62673  1 ehci_pci
parport                32638  3 imm,ppdev,parport_pc
agpgart                25942  1 via_agp
larry-pc larry # lsusb
bash: lsusb: command not found
larry-pc larry # ifconfig
enp0s18: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:e0:4d:5c:1a:01  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

larry-pc larry # 

[sabayonino]

"lsusb" command provided by usbutils package can help you

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# lsusb

or more details

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# lsusb -v

[Fitzcarraldo]

Also, make sure the firmware is installed for the Belkin USB Wi-Fi adapter:

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equo install linux-firmware

[pottzie]

usbutils got lsusb working

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[email protected] ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 050d:7050 Belkin Components F5D7050 Wireless G Adapter v1000/v2000 [Intersil ISL3887]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:d711 Hewlett-Packard 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

And installed linux-firmware. Still don't have any wlan0. I see ethernet is listed as enp0s18

[Fitzcarraldo]

From the output you posted it appears your installation has loaded three different drivers for the same Wi-Fi device, and I suspect the different drivers could be interfering with each other.

The kernel image in one of the SL installations I use is:

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sabayon fitzcarraldo # equo search --installed linux-sabayon
╠  @@ Searching...
╠      @@ Package: sys-kernel/linux-sabayon-4.8.17 branch: 5, [__system__] 
╠          Installed:     version: 4.8.17 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0
╠          Slot:          4.8
╠          Homepage:      https://github.com/Sabayon/kernel 
╠          Description:   Official Sabayon Linux Standard 
╠                         kernel image 
╠          License:       GPL-2 freedist
╠   Keywords:  linux-sabayon
╠   Found:     1 entry
sabayon fitzcarraldo # uname -a
Linux sabayon.local 4.8.0-sabayon #1 SMP Mon Jan 23 17:20:20 UTC 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2030 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

And the kernel source code has three different drivers for USB device 050d:7050, as shown below:

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sabayon fitzcarraldo # grep -r "USB_DEVICE(0x050d, 0x7050)" /usr/src/linux-4.8.0-sabayon/drivers/net/wireless/*
/usr/src/linux-4.8.0-sabayon/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54usb.c:        {USB_DEVICE(0x050d, 0x7050)},   /* Belkin F5D7050 ver 1000 */
/usr/src/linux-4.8.0-sabayon/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt73usb.c:      { USB_DEVICE(0x050d, 0x7050) }, /* FCC ID: K7SF5D7050B ver. 3.x */
/usr/src/linux-4.8.0-sabayon/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c:    { USB_DEVICE(0x050d, 0x7050) }, /* FCC ID: K7SF5D7050A ver. 2.x */

I don't have your hardware, but my guess from what you have posted plus the above output is that you need to use the p54usb driver. Therefore I suggest you blacklist the other two drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to see if that has any effect:

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blacklist rt2500usb
blacklist rt73usb

I don't know if the firmware for the Intersil ISL3887 chipset is included in the package linux-firmware, but you will find out by rebooting once you have blacklisted the other two modules. Use the command lsmod again to make sure the two other modules are no longer loaded.


EDIT: Regarding the firmware for the p54usb driver, according to the Linux Wireless page for the driver (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/p54), you need to download the firmware from the following link and copy it to the firmware directory:

http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw ... 0.lm87.arm

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# wget http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.25.0.lm87.arm --no-check-certificate
# cp 2.13.25.0.lm87.arm /lib/firmware/isl3887usb

[pottzie]

Downloaded firmware. Bash couldn't recognize blacklist command for some reason.

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bash: blacklist: command not found

[sabayonino]

Fitz wrote :

Therefore I suggest you blacklist the other two drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to see if that has any effect:

"blacklist" isn't a bash command

edit that file ad put

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blacklist rt2500usb
blacklist rt73usb

[pottzie]

Alright, added the 2 drivers/modules to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf . So much for my reading skills.