No WiFi on 32bit Snapshot

[AVLinux]

Yep,

All boxes are checked including 'Enable WiFi"

Edit Connections shows only the existing Wired Connection

[Huckleberry Finn]

That's weird. We came back to post #1 :)

[AVLinux]

Haha, indeed we did! Not for your lack of trying though, thanks so much!

This ISO is giving me the heebie jeebies because WiFi is not working on either of my old laptops (laptop number 2 is Broadcom WiFi so expected)... It also doesn't boot on my threadripper Desktop most likely becuase of 32bit vs. UEFI so it may be wonderful elsewhere or a complete dud....

Guess I'll have to RC it into the wild and see if the cat licks it up..

[Huckleberry Finn]

You're welcome. Just.. Maybe you just need to press Fn Keys to activate wi-fi device ..? Or if there's a tiny button, simply switch off & on .

[AVLinux]

Hmmm, yeah I did try that before and it didn't work, it seems to not be a hardware switching problem..

[Huckleberry Finn]

Ok. As I mentioned before, sometimes the reverse happens, it's fine on live session but not when installed. The difference is squashfs , ext4 etc ... If only we all understand one day :)

[AVLinux]

Yeah, gotta love computers! I'm prolly not doing myself any favours with a fresh kernel on a fossil computer.. Anyway thanks again for the time and effort! I better go make some dinner and put this thing away for a while..

[Huckleberry Finn]

I just wonder:

Have you tried the snapshot -wifi- when it's not connected wired? (Without the cable particularly )

Also, what happens if you boot that on any other machine? (no matter different wifi device & driver on that one): No Access Points listed again?

And ... This one is up to you and just out of curiosity:

In case you have time and you don't feel lazy :) can you do / remaster the same snapshot with antiX 4.9.240 kernel and then boot on that machine again? (Yes, you wouldn't like this, as an older kernel may effect other audio related things, but this is just to try that wireless issue) ...

(Just by the way, that machine will like that kernel so much for other things.. - I know, you particularly use the 5.9 for the distro - )

Then we can have an idea if it's related to the wifi device itself, or Network Manager, or kernel (though it sounds odd as it works with the same kernel on installed system)

[agnivo007]

Any weird dmesg log?