Linux Tablet?

AAxios · Sep 19, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Nothing like repeat offenders is their. (aka wifi)
My t420 didnt have wifi rummaged around in my stash found one but it was wifi
only but geez it screams in the t420 my point the only broadcom that ever worked above expectations for me.

I dont know why its always the common things that hiccup.

Dunno if this be of help
https://github.com/brazenwinter/linx12x64archlinux
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2450187
This may be of use the wifi section

Just killin time and relaxing..lol

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 19, 2024

Axios Thanks, I have already been there! Installed all the files and watched the WiFi turn on! And then nothing, wireless password would not accept. I could see all the networks but could not connect to any of them. After a reboot still no connection and performance seemed a bit (more) laggy. Wiped and tried using the restore media to return it to Windows. Two and a half hours of blank screen and I had wiped it again and gone back to Manjaro.
Hoping I might get as lucky as the guy on the video, I have shouted out on the Manjaro forum to see if anyone there has the answer.
It has got to be said that Solus and it's forum makes me feel more like someone is holding my hand. Maybe it's just familiarity, I don't know.

AAxios · Sep 20, 2024

BuzzPCSOS If you do sudo lshw -C network what do you get

inkbug · Sep 20, 2024

BuzzPCSOS
While probably no help at this point, you might find this interesting:
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article976/lenovo-yoga-370-on-gnu-linux-technical-companion-article

David Revoy is an illustrator and Linux enthusiast. An insipirng rarity in the world of digital art.

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 20, 2024

Axios Thanks for your suggestion.
After I installed it, I ran the suggested command. Some details flashed up on the screen too fast to read and then it just jumped down a line waiting for the next command without displaying any information.
Maybe I should try installing the GitHub drivers again, do a reboot and scan again.

AAxios · Sep 20, 2024

(sudo lshw -C network) Nothing fancy about that command its saying it doesnt like something
if you got enuf screen should just display.
Guess it doesnt like something we knew that thought it would help us out abit.

You got secure boot turned off right I dont think it will load that wifi with it turned on?

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 20, 2024

Axios I installed the GitHub driver and rebooted. Can see networks but security password will not accept. When I shut down the tablet it hung. I will take a more detailed look at that later.
Also took another try with sudo lshw -C network and now have an output. I will post that up later as I don't have access to my computer right now.

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 20, 2024

Axios Somewhat later...
Tried tablet again, startup and shutdown are both fine. Results of sudo lshw -C network with GitHub drivers installed.
*-interface:0 description: Wireless interface product: 43455 vendor: Broadcom physical id: 1 bus info: mmc@2:0001:1 logical name: mmc2:0001:1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 36:00:1f:1a:11:99 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmfmac driverversion=7.45.234 firmware=01-996384e2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
Still can't connect because it will not take my password, all very frustrating.

AAxios · Sep 20, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Lets see if its enabled (nmcli radio)

And (rfkill list)

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 20, 2024

Axios nmcli returned everything enabled except WWAN-LAN missing.
rfkill list returned nothing blocked.

AAxios · Sep 21, 2024

BuzzPCSOS It would appear to me that driver is loaded and working but it is not
the right one. (Everything you replied to is proper)

I have seen two others but havent researched them enough yet found one post the guy could not login
but changed the driver and then it worked (not sure if that was to the wifi not working at all or if was just login i Got the impression it was login) that was a manjaro forum I think.
I think it has something to do with the wrong 802.11 mode. (Not 100% sure)

To pooped tonight to research seen yer post on manjaro

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 21, 2024

Axios Many thanks for what you have achieved so far. Never needed to do this sort of fault finding with Linux before, just lucky I guess.
Your suggestions are really appreciated.

AAxios · Sep 21, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Run this and see what it spits out so maybe we can nail down driver.
(lspci -nn -d 14e4

Note; going ramble for a minute
I was checking out my budgie in the BRCM firmware directory Solus does have those files that you installed
on manjaro so the question is why did solus not work then?

But there are many for different devices like this and then what appears to be a generic blob.

So whats different between those files I have no idea at this point.

My point was if manjaro with the generic blob is at least seeing your wifi why didnt solus.
(Is Solus smarter?) inquiring minds want to know..

If what I see is correct
Busy today will tinker later..

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 21, 2024

Axios I think part of the lspci -nn -d 14e4 command got confused as an emoji. Unfortunately I don't know what I am supposed to be doing so couldn't just make a good guess.
Some of the problems with these drivers is that they are motherboard specific also there are both sdio chips and pcie chips which can make detection and usage of a universal driver a bit hit and miss.
I have the driver that worked on Windows so I might be able to determine from that what Linux driver I should be looking for. On one Ubuntu forum there was even the suggestion that the Windows driver instruction file could be renamed and used to enable the built in Linux drivers.
Food for thought.
Right at the moment I don't have a physical keyboard for my linx12 so things like renaming files and other simple tasks are a pita and have restricted what I can do to test out new drivers. If I can get the WiFi working in the end I will most likely record what was needed to make it work and then wipe and clean install, I have chopped everything around so much already that it is a wonder that it still boots.

AAxios · Sep 21, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Its just lspci -nn -d 14e4 wanted see what it said

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 21, 2024

Axios Oh right, well it just complained when I tried that.
lspci: -d: At least two fields must be given

I have done a bit of reverse engineering and have the build revision of the driver that worked on the tablet with Windows on it.

802.11ac WDI SDIO Adapter
Version: 1.596.13.0
Date: 25 July 2016
Size: 3.5 MB
INF file: bcmwdidhdsdio.inf

I wonder if it could be used to determine what Linux driver is required.

AAxios · Sep 21, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Just use lspci am looking for the
line on your wireless as to what it says.
Mine looks like this
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 42)

Yours might look something like this or along those lines
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4320] (rev 03)

Did you do anything with the nvram.txt file when you installed the drivers (not sure of the exact nvram name)

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 22, 2024

lspci  00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 36) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 36) 00:03.0 Multimedia controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series Imaging Unit (rev 36) 00:0b.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series Power Management Controller (rev 36) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series USB xHCI Controller (rev 36) 00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 36) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series PCU (rev 36)
Tried the text file without any luck. On windows it required a specific driver and a specific .txt file to be manually loaded. It wouldn't work with a later or an earlier driver as far as my efforts showed.
Might need to admit defeat here and just use an external wireless adapter, that way I don't need to worry about loosing my WiFi every time there is an update.

AAxios · Sep 22, 2024

BuzzPCSOS Its not showing your wifi
Thats the way i saw it in my mind the way you explained (I have the windows stuff been analyzing and looking
through those files to)
I dont know how the heck on linux one would know the two proper files to have the reason I say that
is was reading them from solus and they each vary to some degree not all the same.
But thats prob where the issue is its gotta have both proper files/version.(Just not having much luck putting the two together)

I ran across this and tried it gives ton of info (it ask for root to gather info but no worries there)
might be handy.
https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info?tab=readme-ov-file

Sorry I dont have a solution will keep an eye out.

BuzzPCSOS · Sep 22, 2024

Edit. Original removed as too much redundant information.
Wireless grab after boot with internal wireless device only.

``

########## wireless info START ##########

Report from: 24 Sep 2024 17:25 BST +0100

Booted last: 24 Sep 2024 00:00 BST +0100

Script from: 27 Aug 2024 10:55 UTC +0000

release

Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description: Manjaro Linux
Release: 24.0.8
Codename: Wynsdey

kernel

Linux 6.9.12-3-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Aug 7 16:19:28 UTC 2024 x86_64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Parameters: rw, quiet, splash, resume=UUID=4665dbe5-06e1-43bc-9480-5b5df5141766, udev.log_priority=3, zswap.enabled=0

desktop

plasmawayland

lspci

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

PCMCIA card info

'pccardctl' is not installed (package "pcmciautils").

rfkill

0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

secure boot

'mokutil' is not installed (package "mokutil").

lsmod

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
brcmfmac 602112 0
brcmutil 20480 1 brcmfmac
cfg80211 1372160 1 brcmfmac
rfkill 40960 5 bluetooth,cfg80211
wmi 36864 1 video
mmc_core 270336 5 sdhci,mmc_block,btsdio,brcmfmac,sdhci_acpi

dkms

/home/linx12/wireless-info: line 206: dkms: command not found

interfaces

ifconfig

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback <MAC address> brd <MAC address>
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

iwconfig

/home/linx12/wireless-info: line 233: iwconfig: command not found

route

resolv.conf

[644 root '/etc/resolv.conf']

network managers

Installed:

NetworkManager

Running:

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
root 495 1 0 17:11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon

NetworkManager info

NetworkManager.state

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true

NetworkManager config

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
[[/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf]]
[connectivity]
uri=http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt

NetworkManager profiles

find: ‘/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections’: Permission denied

Acquisition of admin privileges failed.

Netplan config

iw reg get

Region: Europe/London (based on set time zone)

global
country 00: DFS-UNSET
(755 - 928 @ 2), (N/A, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
(2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A)
(2457 - 2482 @ 20), (N/A, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(2474 - 2494 @ 20), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5490 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN
(5735 - 5835 @ 80), (N/A, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN
(57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A)

iwlist channels

'iwlist' is not installed (package "wireless-tools").

iwlist scan

'iwlist' is not installed (package "wireless-tools").

module infos

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
[brcmfmac]
filename: /lib/modules/6.9.12-3-MANJARO/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko.zst
license: Dual BSD/GPL
description: Broadcom 802.11 wireless LAN fullmac driver.
depends: mmc_core,brcmutil,cfg80211
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: brcmfmac
vermagic: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload
parm: txglomsz:Maximum tx packet chain size [SDIO] (int)
parm: debug:Level of debug output (int)
parm: p2pon:Enable legacy p2p management functionality (int)
parm: feature_disableisable features (int)
parm: alternative_fw_path:Alternative firmware path (string)
parm: fcmode:Mode of firmware signalled flow control (int)
parm: roamoffo not use internal roaming engine (int)
parm: iapp:Enable partial support for the obsoleted Inter-Access Point Protocol (int)
parm: ignore_probe_fail:always succeed probe for debugging (int)

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
[brcmutil]
filename: /lib/modules/6.9.12-3-MANJARO/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko.zst
license: Dual BSD/GPL
description: Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver utilities.
depends:
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: brcmutil
vermagic: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
[cfg80211]
filename: /lib/modules/6.9.12-3-MANJARO/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko.zst
description: wireless configuration support
license: GPL
depends: rfkill
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: cfg80211
vermagic: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO SMP preempt mod_unload
parm: bss_entries_limit:limit to number of scan BSS entries (per wiphy, default 1000) (int)
parm: ieee80211_regdom:IEEE 802.11 regulatory domain code (charp)
parm: cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghzisable 40MHz support in the 2.4GHz band (bool)

module parameters

grep: /sys/module/brcmfmac/parameters/alternative_fw_path: Permission denied
grep: /sys/module/brcmfmac/parameters/debug: Permission denied
grep: /sys/module/brcmfmac/parameters/roamoff: Permission denied
[brcmfmac]

[cfg80211]
bss_entries_limit: 1000
cfg80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz: N
ieee80211_regdom: 00

/etc/modules

grep: /etc/modules: No such file or directory

modprobe options

rc.local

grep: /etc/rc.local: No such file or directory

pm-utils

find: ‘/etc/pm/*.d’: No such file or directory

udev rules

dmesg

egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
[ 14.611221] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x15264345
[ 14.625876] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio for chip BCM4345/6
[ 14.633357] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.LINX-LINX12X64.bin failed with error -2
[ 14.671136] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt failed with error -2
[ 14.712831] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
[ 14.712839] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM4345C0.hcd'
[ 14.712842] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM.hcd'
[ 15.682745] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50

########## wireless info END ############

``