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| @@ -1627,6 +1627,29 @@ | |||
| 1627 | 1627 | # duplicated into the server branch. | |
| 1628 | 1628 | NetworkManager-wifi \ | |
| 1629 | 1629 | wpa_supplicant \ | |
| 1630 | + | # And the Intel wireless firmware, which is a separate defect with the | |
| 1631 | + | # same symptom and a different layer. `--setopt=install_weak_deps=False` | |
| 1632 | + | # above is what drops it: Fedora's linux-firmware *requires* the | |
| 1633 | + | # atheros, brcmfmac, mt7xxx and nxpwireless splits and only | |
| 1634 | + | # *recommends* the iwlwifi ones, so the flag silently produced an image | |
| 1635 | + | # that can drive every wireless chip except Intel's. Measured on fw12 | |
| 1636 | + | # 2026-09-03, where the kernel said it in as many words: | |
| 1637 | + | # | |
| 1638 | + | # Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz | |
| 1639 | + | # Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-gf-a0-89.ucode failed | |
| 1640 | + | # no suitable firmware found! | |
| 1641 | + | # | |
| 1642 | + | # The driver loads either way, so `lsmod` shows iwlwifi present with a | |
| 1643 | + | # refcount of zero and no interface is ever created. Same silent shape | |
| 1644 | + | # as the missing plugin above: nothing fails, and the hardware is | |
| 1645 | + | # simply not there. | |
| 1646 | + | # | |
| 1647 | + | # -mvm covers the modern parts (7260 onward, which is every Intel card | |
| 1648 | + | # in a machine Alloy claims to support, fw12's AX211 included). -mld is | |
| 1649 | + | # the newest series and -dvm is pre-2013; neither is in the tested | |
| 1650 | + | # matrix, and this line grows when the matrix does rather than in | |
| 1651 | + | # anticipation. | |
| 1652 | + | iwlwifi-mvm-firmware \ | |
| 1630 | 1653 | # Lock + idle. swaylock is the adopted lock surface per | |
| 1631 | 1654 | # docs/STACK.md#lock. A session-lock surface is graphical and | |
| 1632 | 1655 | # cannot be a TUI, so Alloy adopts rather than authors it. The | |
| @@ -1924,7 +1947,11 @@ | |||
| 1924 | 1947 | # until 2026-09-03 because every Alloy install so far was reached over a | |
| 1925 | 1948 | # wire. | |
| 1926 | 1949 | && ls /usr/lib64/NetworkManager/*/libnm-device-plugin-wifi.so >/dev/null 2>&1 \ | |
| 1927 | - | && rpm -q wpa_supplicant >/dev/null; \ | |
| 1950 | + | && rpm -q wpa_supplicant >/dev/null \ | |
| 1951 | + | # The firmware half, asserted by file rather than by package, because | |
| 1952 | + | # what the driver needs is a blob at a path and the package is only how | |
| 1953 | + | # it gets there. | |
| 1954 | + | && ls /usr/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-*.ucode* >/dev/null 2>&1; \ | |
| 1928 | 1955 | else \ | |
| 1929 | 1956 | # The asserting else. Five sentinels, one per reason a package could | |
| 1930 | 1957 | # have landed here anyway: sway is a direct name in the `then` branch, |