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impossible/error driver update Fedora 6.8.4-200

Open dakkar96 opened this issue 2 years ago • 16 comments

Hi everyone,

Sorry, big noob here. After upgrading to Fedora version "6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64", my USB-WiFi dongle is not recognized anymore (TP-Link T9UH) .

I tried to re-install and it seemed to work fine in the Terminal since I have this message after writing "dkms status" command :

rtl8814au/5.8.5.1, 6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64, x86_64: installed

But I still don't have wifi because my usb dongle is not recognized, even after multiple reboots ... And when I jump back to an old Fedora version such as 6.7.11 everything is ok, my usb is recognized

Any idea how to solve this ?

Many thanks in advance

dakkar96 avatar Apr 07 '24 17:04 dakkar96

Run sudo sh install-driver.sh again and post the onscreen log here.

morrownr avatar Apr 07 '24 22:04 morrownr

Capture d’écran du 2024-04-08 09-44-46 Capture d’écran du 2024-04-08 09-45-11

I didn't make a reboot at this point for the screenshot and when I did it didn't work either.

dakkar96 avatar Apr 08 '24 07:04 dakkar96

Reboot and then paste the output of:

$ dkms status

morrownr avatar Apr 08 '24 14:04 morrownr

Capture d’écran du 2024-04-08 17-53-03

this is the message after the reboot requested (still no wifi)

dakkar96 avatar Apr 08 '24 15:04 dakkar96

Well, everything I see indicates it should be working. You run the remove-driver.sh script and then do a Manual Installation.

morrownr avatar Apr 08 '24 20:04 morrownr

Ok I ran the remove-driver.sh script and then I processed a manual installation like this : (in my driver folder) $ make clean $ make $ sudo make install $ sudo reboot

no errors during the process, but still no wifi after rebooting.

and weird thing, this is my dkms status right now : Capture d’écran du 2024-04-09 09-26-57

is this normal ? what should I do ?

edit : and now I don't have wifi on all my Fedora versions, even the previous one where it worked fine (6.7.11). So still on the latest release, I ran the install-driver script. I still don't have wifi on this, but it came back for previous versions. I guess I have to stick with it.

dakkar96 avatar Apr 09 '24 07:04 dakkar96

is this normal ?

Yes, dkms status should show nothing since we ran remove-driver.sh.

I ran the install-driver script. I still don't have wifi on this, but it came back for previous versions.

This is beginning to sound like a bug in fedora. Both methods of installation should have installed the driver to the currently active kernel. Since it is installing it to an older, inactive kernel, the question is why? You might want to present this info to a fedora forum to see what you get.

morrownr avatar Apr 09 '24 16:04 morrownr

Everything came back to normal with update to 6.8.5-201

dakkar96 avatar Apr 14 '24 14:04 dakkar96

That is good.

morrownr avatar Apr 14 '24 15:04 morrownr

@dakkar96

Are you still stuck? If so, I have something I will merge so you can try it.

@morrownr

morrownr avatar Apr 26 '24 03:04 morrownr

Hi, everything is working fine here with the driver. I am currently running Fedora 40 without issue. Thank you!

dakkar96 avatar Apr 29 '24 11:04 dakkar96

Thanks for letting me know. If you running into problems as kernel upgrades flow into your system, let me know.

morrownr avatar Apr 29 '24 21:04 morrownr