[9fans] wifi on t430

[9fans] wifi on t430

[will.senn]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 556 bytes --]

I was trying 9front out on my t430 and got everything working fine, but with ethernet attached. I noticed during bootup a message about missing iwm firmware and it got me thinking about how difficult it would be to configure the wifi. Is there a howto out there on simple steps to turn on wifi and connect to the router?

Will
------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-Md282ce726ae2ee4bd6e2ef21
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1080 bytes --]

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[sl]

http://fqa.9front.org/fqa3.html#3.2.3.2.3.1

sl

------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-M754ebbe1fba853ff08836108
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[will.senn]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 515 bytes --]

wow, that sounds easy... ish. Off to go figure out how to get a file (the firmware) from one place (the internet) to another (my whizbang p9 instance).  ip/ping works, so surely, there's a way to get a file to transfer, right? I may have forgotten to mention that I was a plan 9 newb :)
------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-M66e8c6d08f00c1b547741cb0
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1017 bytes --]

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[adventures in9]

There is a link in that FQA to OpenBSD's stash of firmwares.  The one
you want is likely in here;

http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/7.5/iwm-firmware-20230330.tgz

Look in that tarball for the firmware file that matches what your boot
message is asking for and copy it to /lib/firmware/

hget is the command to just fetch a file via http.


On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 10:14 PM <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> wow, that sounds easy... ish. Off to go figure out how to get a file (the firmware) from one place (the internet) to another (my whizbang p9 instance).  ip/ping works, so surely, there's a way to get a file to transfer, right? I may have forgotten to mention that I was a plan 9 newb :)
> 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-Mf32f157e88da75d668977027
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[igor]

Quoth will.senn@gmail.com:
> > wow, that sounds easy...  ish.  Off to go figure out how to get a
> file (the firmware) from one place (the internet) to another (my
> whizbang p9 instance).  ip/ping works, so surely, there's a way to get
> a file to transfer, right?  I may have forgotten to mention that I was
> a plan 9 newb :)

The section titled 'Wifi' in the following writeup may
be of help:

 * https://9lab.org/plan9/thinkpad-t420s/#wifi

It describes the Wifi setup on a T420s…


------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-M1b233961713ddff2e016c568
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[will.senn]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 798 bytes --]

So far, so good. I figured out it was iwn, not iwm :). Grabbed it, unpacked it, made it available to the kernel on boot and rebooted. Sure enough, the driver loaded! It kinda hammers the wifi when it's not configured (the wifi led flickers a bunch) - I just switched it off (thanks Lenovo for the wifi switch). Now, I just gotta type in all the init stuff and it'll hopefully work without the constant polling. Thanks @igor for the link and thanks @adventuresin9 for the tip on hget and link. Once I get it working and configured, I'll report it back to close the loop. 
------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-Ma707dab335238ceebdbff305
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1304 bytes --]

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[will.senn]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 531 bytes --]

Hmm... so, when the faq says:



Example configuration for 
plan9.ini:







ether0=type=wpi essid=YOUR_AP




wpapsk=PASSWORD

what plan9.ini is it talking about? and if my interface is iwn, does it wind up looking like:

ether0=type=iwn essid=MY_AP
wpapsk=MYPASSWD

-w



------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-M87e2e2c5ab09825828c7caf7
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2265 bytes --]

Re: [9fans] wifi on t430

[will.senn]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 347 bytes --]

figured out where plan9.ini lives:

9fs 9fat
cat /n/9fat/plan9.ini

Now just need to know about what to add :). 

------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T43711793618be559-Mae02fc4e7ba54b7a3f135b1e
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 931 bytes --]