• TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days 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·
      4 days ago

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

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        invalid password error. antix linux. propably a driver issue due to laptop being too old and linux kernel being too new

        • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Maybe. I’d try a different distro and see if it works like Tuxedo OS or EndeavourOS, should work right away unless you need specific drivers, might need to find out the WiFi chip and see if theres any posts on how to fix it. Might need to switch the WiFi backend like I did or something

          • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            things like that would not even boot up on this old junk. im lucky that i found an old ethernet cable

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzOPEnglish
        5·
        4 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·
          3 days 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·
            3 days 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·
              3 days 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·
                2 days 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
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  How, funny, my sister just wrote me about wifi problems on her linux MBP (authentication not working) and I sent her the link to the GitHub, and it worked for her as well 🥳

                • Petter1@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  2 days 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?