<Synthetica>
You could nix-copy-closure the iwlwifi to an usb stick or something and install it from there (I think)
<Frosku>
Second question: can I make install media with nonfree packages on? (my wifi requires iwlwifi)
2021-03-14
<ar>
peterstorm[m]: can you do a "dmesg | grep -i iwlwifi" and paste it to some pastebin (eg. https://dpaste.com/ )?
2021-01-18
<Rusty1>
what happens if you try modprobing iwlwifi?
<exarkun>
thinkpad t520 w/ nixos 20.09 ... no wifi devices available (with iwlwifi loaded and networking.enable = true). anyone have any idea?
2021-01-12
<wifiprobzmannn>
"Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-9260<version>.ucode failed with error -2
<dutchie>
i did `journalctl -b` and saw that it failed loading some iwlwifi ucode
2021-01-09
<thorn_>
i added iwlwifi to my initrd
<thorn_>
modprobe iwlwifi or something?
<thorn_>
lspci is showing that ive got a wireless card and its said its loaded iwlwifi
2020-12-31
<new2nix>
If I have wifi working in the installer, how do I go about getting it working in the installed OS? Importing "${modulesPath}/installer/scan/not-detected.nix" works, but if I leave it out and pull in kernel modules "iwldvm" "iwlwifi", I get errors about ucode firmware.
2020-12-12
<plfn>
which uses the iwlwifi class of drivers
2020-12-08
<rpgwaiter>
How should I go about troubleshooting network issues on nixos? nmcli isn't seeing my network card (Intel 9650) and I added iwlwifi to the available kernel modules.
2020-10-20
<la-jesystani>
i tried modprode iwlwifi but no change, still nothing other than lo and my wired connection in `ip link`
<la-jesystani>
i am getting a "direct firmware load for iwlwifi failed with error -2" which may be something? just checking dmesg
2020-10-13
<srid>
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi lists iwlwifi-9000 to be latest, which is available per modinfo - though kernel is using an different version (QuZ-a0-jf-b0-55.u); so my question is - how do change the firmware?
<avn>
srid: I use iwlwifi as AP, and it work in range from perfect to awful, mainly depending fo client side
<srid>
`modinfo iwlwifi` lists many ucodes, not sure what is actually used.
<GolDDranks>
This was pretty hard to set up too, because my Intel Wifi card insisted on not yielding to the linux kernel settings, but by restarting the wifi driver module with modprobe iwlwifi lar_disable=1, it yielded...
2020-09-03
<iqubic>
the only red lines I'm getting in dmesg are from iwlwifi telling me that telling me that the BIOS contains WGDS and not WRDS
2020-07-20
<elux>
ive unblocked on rfkill the wlan, but "nmcli" is still saying its "sw disabled". i tried to rmmod iwlwifi and modeprobe it again,
<elux>
im trying to setup wifi on my desktop, but 'nmcli' says my wlp7s0 card (iwlwifi) is "sw disabled". im checking all my nix configs and not sure why its disabled
2020-07-18
<lovesegfault>
Where does the iwlwifi firmware come from in NixOS?
<lovesegfault>
iwlwifi 0000:72:00.0: loaded firmware version 53.c31ac674.0 cc-a0-53.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
2020-05-10
<morgrimm>
Meant to ask, dmesg output in entiret, or filtered to iwlwifi?
<morgrimm>
Should've been iwlwifi before as well, according to the past gen firmware
<morgrimm>
Should've been iwlwifi before as well, according to the past gen firmware
<morgrimm>
So specifically I need an iwlwifi ucode blob, I know which one - and I added the iwlwifi kernel module hoping it would automatically pull it down
<morgrimm>
So I added the iwlwifi module just to be sure it was included, and it spit out a boot error about there being no suitable firmware for my wifi card... hmm
2020-04-03
<jared-w>
I'm conflicted. I want linux 5.6.2 so that iwlwifi will finally work with 5ghz wifi again. We upgraded to gigabit at my house and I'm stuck on a slow 2.4ghz connection :(
2020-04-02
<avn>
Folks, anyone have experience upgrading firmware for iwlwifi (as well as module options tuning, etc?).
<hexa->
think ath9k, ath10k, iwlwifi … all to some degree
2019-12-16
<pie_>
clever: i figures /lib/firmware is hardcoded into iwlwifi or something. its configurable?
<pie_>
clever: turns out its not a version problem. i think the firmware isnt being found for some reason. after some reverse engineering of nixpkgs; i created /lib/firmware and put the iwlwifi firmwares in there and a manual reload of the kernel module worke
2019-12-05
<payas>
It does say firnware error and firmware not running : iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: FW error in SYNC CMD SCAN_CFG_CMD
<payas>
How can I check that? During boot, I get lots of stuff related iwlwifi failing. My laptop has an intel wireless card, is this related?
2019-11-25
<rydnr>
Finally I booted with the 20.03 livecd. I got the same kernel panics until I blacklisted both iwlwifi and iwlmvm modules. But I get "error: writing to file: Operation not permitted" when I try to do "nixos-rebuild switch" after "nixos-enter"
2019-11-09
<clever>
lane-s: you need the 5.3 kernel for iwlwifi to support it
<lane-s>
But on debian it didn't work until I manually installed some `backport-iwlwifi` driver
<lane-s>
clever: Ah yeah mine is using iwlwifi as well.
<clever>
lane-s: my laptop is using iwlwifi, and has had fairly flaky wifi since nixcon (when i did an upgrade)
2019-11-07
<clever>
but 2723 isnt in iwlwifi, so it wont work with that driver
<clever>
rotaerk: and i can see that vid and pid in the aliases of iwlwifi
<clever>
rotaerk: try `modprobe iwlwifi` and see what happens
2019-11-05
<johnny101m>
inkbottle: on 19.09 with 4.19 kernel, the Intel iwlwifi driver gives my p71 kernel panic on boot. no issue on 5.3 kernel though.
2019-10-30
<graf_blutwurst>
Good morning. So i finally figured out what is causing my kernel panics with the newer versions. it's iwlwifi. if i blacklist it everything boots fine. Does anyone have an idea how to address this?
2019-10-09
<evax>
hi, I'm getting a iwlwifi related kernel panic on boot (with blinking caps led) when trying to upgrade to 19.09, what's the kernel version there?
2019-09-01
<clever>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
2019-06-30
<simukis__>
iwlwifi is pretty standard and known working driver. there is something funky going on.
<cxx_newb>
alexarice[m] hey. I tried most of the nixos releases and the 17.03 version is booting fine. My wifi device does not show up in ip a however. I checked on ubuntu which driver the card is using. It is iwlwifi. I tried loading it in nixos live with modprobe iwlwifi but the device does not show up. I do not have a network cable port so I need the wifi
2019-06-29
<jaen>
iwlwifi
2019-06-28
<mthst>
i have a problem with iwlwifi, it's missing iwlwifi-6000g2a-ucode. i'm aware of hardware.firmware, but how do i find the appropriate package?
2019-02-01
<fengels>
It's WiFi but yes both were using iwlwifi
<Vskilet>
I try to add iwlwifi in module Kernel on boot but that's not working
2018-05-03
<cmcdragonkai>
How do I get the iwlwifi firmware required?
<cmcdragonkai>
there's an error asking about iwlwifi-8265-22 to iwlwifi-8265-34
2018-04-05
<testuser>
Dezgeg, one other thing that I've observed in dmesg when reloading iwlwifi is the following: http://dpaste.com/0BE91GR
<testuser>
iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
<testuser>
iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode failed with error -2
<sphalerite>
testuser: no, as it says there the wireless interface uses iwlwifi
2018-04-02
<Guest57550>
I have iwlwifi loaded
2018-02-18
<samueldr>
jordanmackie: could you try `cat /nix/store/g58*iwlwifi*/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-3160-13.ucode > /dev/null` (or the proper full path instead of wildcards)
2018-02-17
<jordanmackie>
samueldr: any idea why nixos-install would crash when processing iwlwifi?
<jordanmackie>
nixos-install keeps crashing with rsync errors when processing the iwlwifi stuff (poorly worded because I don't really know what's going on) - can anyone help?
<NixOS_GitHub>
nixpkgs/master d43b41f Jan Malakhovski: firmware-linux-nonfree: 2017-10-09-iwlwifi-fw-2017-11-03 -> 2017-10-13-iwlwifi-fw-2017-11-15...
2017-11-24
<cromachina>
hello all, i am using an old laptop that uses iwlwifi firmware, but whatever the latest is for my device is buggy as hell (from the linux nonfree firmware package). i've seen other complains about this particular firmware version searching around. i would like to test out older versions of the firmware (a .ucode file from intel one usually drops in /lib/firmware), so how can i specify this in my configuration?
<pseudo-sue>
it's an intel chip, and I think it uses the iwlwifi firmware
2017-06-02
<pseudo-sue>
wpa_supplicant seems to be failing on boot, and I think this is due to missing firmware. what needs to be in my configuration.nix to get, say, iwlwifi?