Fresh install wifi not working (continued from support channel)

[red raft]

One sec pic incoming

Here you go @merry river apologies for ping

But yeah as far as I know, and I see no errors in dmesg. That means it shouldn't be a kernel or firmware issue right?

[merry river]

That looks pretty ok. iwlwifi is the right driver

[merry river]

What about dmesg | grep -E wlo1\|wlp0

Should filter for lines with those strings in it, so the wifi messages

[red raft]

Only this

[merry river]

Hmm

It's annoying because I'm pretty certain that it being DOWN is the problem. Why no ip link set <dev> up work?

[red raft]

Idk if it is only down because it failed to set up an initial connection for whatever reason

And so it gets kicked into a down/dorman state

[merry river]

The "DORMANT" part is normal, even for a connected device

What you could do, is get back into the iso, connect up there, and see what is different

[red raft]

I have the live gui iso, I assume that is fine

I mean first difference is it has networkmanager but I assume this is partially due to it being a KDE gui

[merry river]

Checking if the device responds to UP and DOWN there would be my first step

[merry river]

So you are running just wpa_supplicant alone on this machine?

[red raft]

Dhcpcd and netifrc

As well*

[merry river]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netifrc#Bring_up_.2F_down_.2F_restart_interfaces tried this?

[red raft]

Ip link set wlo1 up did not work in livedisk

Used nmtui to connect to network and it then shows up

Can set it down but not back up

And despite being down is can still ping gentoo.org?

Fucking hell im even more confused

[red raft]

Ill read through this one sec

[merry river]

If you're using netifrc then openrc could be setting the device back down immediately after you set it up manually

[red raft]

Hmm so delete the net.wlo1 default service and then try?

[merry river]

Or use netifrc to manage your devices directly

[red raft]

This implies the symlink in between the net.lo and net.wlo1 step no?

And then setting net.wlo1 as service at default?

In which case I did this as part of the installation

Wpa was installed and is initialized by my netifrc config I believe

Said config /etc/conf.d/net

[merry river]

Does it appear OK in rc-status default?

[red raft]

Yup net.wlo1 and netmount

[merry river]

Hmm, maybe try stopping that service and see if the ip link thing works with it stopped

[red raft]

Nope

Would using sysklogd maybe help find some errors or something?

Only other thing I've tried is running wpa for debugging as I've mentioned idk if that might help?

[merry river]

Never a bad idea, but if there were errors then I expect dmesg would have found them

[red raft]

Ill try out a few wpa configs from the wiki page see if any work out XD

[merry river]

I think the wpa stuff is a red-herring. Your device is not UP, until it's UP wpa is not involved as no connection is possible

[red raft]

Ill probably be away from my computer for a bit but I'll continue researching later

[red raft]

Fixed it