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kwankiu / archlinux-installer

a community-built Arch Linux Installer for ARM (Aarch64) based devices.
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wifi only #10

Closed ddams2000 closed 4 months ago

ddams2000 commented 9 months ago

Hello, I wanted to know if it was possible to install your version of arch linux with wifi only as a connection? cordially

kwankiu commented 9 months ago

For now, not really.

You could try quitting the installer and manually set up internet, but I am not sure whether there are drivers and packages necessary to setup WiFi connection. (or you could try if anything like a USB WiFI or Thethering works).

I will see whether this is possible in the future. If yes, I will add WiFi support for sure.

kwankiu commented 9 months ago

Some status to this issue. So basically I have added experimental Wifi support to dev branch, but due to issues with the script setting up Arch Linux, things might works or not works randomly.

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

WiFi support added in b04.

ddams2000 commented 4 months ago

WiFi support added in b04.

Hello, yes I tested and unfortunately my two wifi cards are not recognized (atheros10K and MT7612U chipset) I also tried Tethering but no, no connection.

I am available if there is a need for testing THANKS

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

This is only tested on RTL8852BE, what WiFi card are those? Do they work on Radxa’s official Debian image?

ddams2000 commented 4 months ago

This is only tested on RTL8852BE, what WiFi card are those? Do they work on Radxa’s official Debian image?

it's a netgear a6210 usb wifi key (MT7612U) and the other is a noname pcie card (qca9377) neither works with the official distribution but they work with armbian

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

I have no idea about what driver are required for your card to work, but here's what you can test with:

  1. I just noticed that the linux-firmware-orangepi-git package comes with quite a lot of WiFi firmware, maybe you can try installing that.
  2. If that package does not come with the WiFi firmware of your WiFi card, or (as i havent tested that package yet) if for any reason it doesnt work or breaks the install, you may need to find the required WiFi firmware package by yourself.

To install additional packages / firmware automatically, copy the package to /usr/lib/compiled-packages, you can either uncompress the image and copy the package, or at first boot, when it shows no internet and prompts with options, press Ctrl+C to terminate the installer, login with root/root and copy the package to /usr/lib/compiled-packages and then reboot

ddams2000 commented 4 months ago

Thank you for your help, I believe that my cards are not recognized at the kernel level, I tested a dmesg and there is no reference to my cards in the log :( (same on the official radxa image) :(

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

Image is now built on linux-rockchip-joshua-git with linux-firmware-joshua-git (which is based on armbian firmware) to support more WiFi card.

You may want to try this image : https://github.com/kwankiu/archlinux-installer-rock5/releases/tag/b05-dev

Note that you will need to select linux-rockchip-joshua-git when installing kernel, if you choose other kernel, you will lost wifi support after the installation.

ddams2000 commented 4 months ago

Well done, it works perfectly! On the other hand I only tried kde and it's so unstable that it's unusable... edit: with wayland, it seems to work fine with x11

kwankiu commented 4 months ago

What do you mean by unusable?

For KDE, idk why it sometimes freezes but u can simply bring up a terminal with keyboard shortcut and restart it with : killall plasmashell && kstart plasmashell

As far as I tested, gnome is the most stable.

ddams2000 commented 4 months ago

it really freezes all the time, when I open a terminal, I launch the browser, I click on the start menu maybe a problem with panfork. Anyway I think this issue is resolved. well done