• TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    My network guy yesterday: "I took down one of your gateways after fat-fingering a change that assigned it’s IP to another device "

    Me: “Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Nobody complained. I’ll just resolve the alarms.”

    • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      It was a GitHub repository actually, but the files were a big help. Shoutout to “macbookpro-12-1 linux fix files”

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        It was a guy who posted a few files that allowed the WiFi driver to work on my old laptop with EndeavourOS installed. Been trying to figure out what I was doing wrong for a while, turns out downloading iwd wasn’t enough, I needed to stop using wpa_supplicant entirely.

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 day ago

          That files were firmware files, weren’t they? I think those would be in AUR as well. Most of them are. 😇

          • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
            2·
            21 hours ago

            Yeah, but the AUR build failed for me, so I just manually copied the WiFi iwd backend fix, it was only a couple short lines anyway.

            • Petter1@lemm.ee
              2·
              18 hours ago

              Ahh, I see

              May I ask which driver you are using for your wifi chip? I want to research about this

              • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
                2·
                10 hours ago

                This is the fix I needed to get WiFi working. I had browsed several forums saying that removing broadcom-wl(-dkms) would fix the problems I was having, but it turns out you need to stop using wpa_supplicant due to a bug or something. Not sure why the AUR pkgbuild failed but it seems like this way was simpler anyway

                • Petter1@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  7 hours ago

                  😍this is awesome! I have a MBP running endeavourOS as well! I think some things written there, apply to my system (2013) as well

                  For my setup, endeavourOS was the only distro that got wifi working out of box 🤭 maybe it is different now

                  I have KDE and use whatever WiFi authentication system is used there by default Seems WPA_Supplican, at least it is installed Oh, but iwd is installed as well 🤔

                  I have BCMM4360 and it uses the driver wl

                  Do you have the same chip?

                  And, was the issue it working not at all, or that it crashed sometimes while in use and needed a reboot in order to work again?