error: wifi support requested but no wifi backend could not be found

[mcdull]

The captioned error happened on ./autogen.sh. after the "checking for avahi... no" messge. My linux box is a vm with no wifi module, is it still possible to run usbmuxd2?
My ultimate goal is to be able to sync and backup my ios devices in this linux vm. Thanks.

[truonggiang0710]

Yes, I get the issue too. But my linux box has wifi module. So please help to resolve it @tihmstar .

[eriklangemeijer]

The line above probably says checking for avahi... no which matches the requirement avahi-client (WIFI) I solved this by installing this lib using: sudo apt install libavahi-client-dev

[jkcoxson]

Were you guys ever able to get WiFi working on Linux? I’m only able to get it to go over USB on my box.

[bentumbler]

Turns out that it is specifically looking for avahi-client >= 0.7.

If the following output fails then you need to get the right version (for me on my older rPi meant I needed to build avahi from source). It was a pain too because the removal of the existing avahi didn't remove avahi-client and you will need to run export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib to point to the correct client.

pkg-config --print-errors --exists 'avahi-client >= 0.7'

[bentumbler]

Were you guys ever able to get WiFi working on Linux? I’m only able to get it to go over USB on my box.

Yes, eventually