New installation bug
When I do a new installation I find that
I have to install an older version of ipfire.
I can't do that with the latest vison.
The challenge is that WiFi is not working properly.
The vision I start with is IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 167
for it to work correctly.
Should it be like that or is it a bug.
Hello @unnersjyn,
I would advise against installing old versions of IPfire. For
The challenge is that WiFi is not working properly.
I think the most important information is the network card, and how it’s connected to your device; please, share this information.
Forgive me for being unclear with what I wrote earlier.
I left out that I ran all the updates to the latest vision
of IPFire from IPFire 2.29 Core update 167
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 196.
I had to do so. So now everything works 100%.
What I’m thinking is that something is missing in PFire 2.29 Core Update 196. Anyway, everything works perfectly now.
The WiFi card I use is.Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac.
My guess is that older wifi configs are passed on with each update.
And the new Wifi setup is possibly more problematic to configure.
I do not use Wifi on my IPfire..
Same here. I find that plugging an Access Point into a LAN port provides more location flexibility and avoids the “too many eggs in one basket” problem. Modern APs have very good guest segregation built in.
I have a test system for my development work which has a wifi card built in. That was working fine with CU197 Testing.
I then did a fresh install of the current version (CU196) and set up the wifi from scratch.
Set up the blue DHCP, set up the Blue Access page and then setup the hostap page.
After doing this I was able to connect my Android phone via wifi to the dev system. I could also access it via my Linux laptop.
Could you give more details about what you mean by
In what way is it not working. Please provide more details.
My installation of IPFire got corrupted
and I can't bear to debug IPFire.
So I took the very last IPFire.
Then I discovered that the WiFi was not
working perfectly as it had done with the
previous installation of IPFire.
So I reverted to an older vision of IPFire.
Namely IPFire 2.29 (x86_64) - Core-Update 167.
Updated from IPFire 2.29 (x86_64) - Core-Update 167
to IPFire 2.29 (x86_64) - Core-Update 196.
It takes a lot of time but I have plenty of that.
This just a tip on how I solved the challenge.
Sorry, I’m not following. What does this mean? Did WiFi work at all, or just sometimes?