> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 09:57:33AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 16:52 +0800, Gang Yan wrote: > > > > In fact, I'm using Ubuntu's userspace, but I've simply replaced Ubuntu's > > kernel with the mainline 6.12.rc2 version (x86_64_defconfig). By merely > > changing CONFIG_IWLWIFI from 'm' to 'y', the network functionality normalized, > > which is inevitably confusing. By the way, both of my computers encountered > > this issue, with network devices being Intel Wireless 8265 and Intel AX210, respectively. > > Yeah well, so Ubuntu integrated everything in a certain way, and because > they build everything as modules they didn't integrated anything to make > it possible to build modules in the kernel. > > When you change it, you own the integration. I gave you a few ways to > solve this, simplest is just specifying the firmware to build into the > kernel in the .config file. > > > I still think some clarification will be helpful to make the configuration process > > here clearer. > > I don't think we need to change anything. Whoever makes some changes to > a distro needs to actually do the integration too. This is in no way > specific to iwlwifi, every other devices with firmware has the problem, > and generic ways of fixing it already exist. > > Johannes Thanks a lot, I understand what you mean now. Gang Yan
