On 4/25/23 12:22, Pogprogrammer wrote:
Hello, I contacted this forum earlier and I installed devuan. Initially it worked on kernel 5.10 when I installed b43-installer and just set it up. However after reinstalling due to unrelated inconveiniences, it is unable to scan for wifi networks. Dmesg contains no relevant information except DMA RX timeout and another timeout waiting for bitmask 01800000 on register 0F90 to clear. The logs then show that the driver was loaded with a feature called PNLS, qnd it loaded version 784.2. Under uname it is debian 5.10.162-1 on 5.10.0-21-amd64 kernel.
The list b43-dev used to be a good place to ask questions like this, but linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is better now. I have sent this reply to that list.
I understand that devuan is Debian without systemd. As modern wireless is highly dependent on systemd, are you sure that everything is setup correctly?
The output about 783.2 implies that the firmware was loaded, but those error messages are of concern.
Please run the command 'lspci -nn' and post the output. That will tell us what device you actually have,
You say that dmesg has no relevant information, but I would like to see for myself. Please run the command 'dmesg > dmesg.txt', post dmesg.txt to some site like https://pastebin.com/, and post the link to the file in the next E-mail here.
Larry
