Postmarket OS

[stefan_hdb]

Dear all,

I have installed postmarket OS on the pinetab2 with the lxqt desktop, using pmbootstrap. The result is quite nice for my use case. However, I can connect to Wifi, using a USB dongle (RALINK in my case). But I cannot establish a Wifi-connection using the build-in modem / WLAN0. For this, it is possible to select a network and enter a password, but the connection will not be established. Does anybody know a solution for this problem?

Thanks and kind regards,
Stefan

[lllll]

Hi, see the wiki page https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE6...inetab2%29

You can scan and try to connect to networks, but they seemingly all fail with an authentication error in dmesg regardless of whether they're secured or not.

One workaround is to either disable networkmanager or build with a user interface that does not install it (e.g. console or sway). You can either add `iw` in extra packages at build time or install it later using USB tethering. Then you can use the built-in `setup-interfaces` script to configure wlan0. DHCP does not run automatically in this configuration so you will need to either set a static IP during the setup or run `udhcpc -i wlan0` as root.

[stefan_hdb]

Hi, see the wiki page https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE6...inetab2%29

You can scan and try to connect to networks, but they seemingly all fail with an authentication error in dmesg regardless of whether they're secured or not.

One workaround is to either disable networkmanager or build with a user interface that does not install it (e.g. console or sway). You can either add `iw` in extra packages at build time or install it later using USB tethering. Then you can use the built-in `setup-interfaces` script to configure wlan0. DHCP does not run automatically in this configuration so you will need to either set a static IP during the setup or run `udhcpc -i wlan0` as root.

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Thank you for the hint. I added iw, but it did not help. The strange effect his: you must disable the wifi connection of the onboard modem, after that the dongle' wifi connects succesfully. So it can't relate to a disabled network manager.

[lllll]

I had different results. I tried several images with different desktop environments. I think with sxmo I was able to follow the steps from the wiki page and make a connection (but the graphical system didn't start). IIRC the steps didn't work when trying phosh.

But it's been a few weeks ago, things might already have changed.