Problem using Lenovo Wifi with old kernel Slacko 5.7.0
Posted: Fri 09 Aug 2019, 14:01
Good morning to everyone,
I recently received a new PC which I am trying to use with my collection of linux USB systems. I use and like a lot the old frugal install of Slacko 5.7.0 (with 3.10.32 kernel).
Problem is that Lenovo PC has a wifi card which requires one version of the iwlwifi-7265-ucode driver from intel. I successfully managed to add that driver to a slacko64 install I have, but the earliest kernel that driver is produced for is 3.19. I found out about project backports though:
https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
I tried to compile latest version (but it would not compile with an error). To be able to start the compile process I was forced to add kernel_sources-3.10.32-slacko_PAE.sfs to my system by the way, the devx sfs was not enough for reasons I don't understand. Anyway, then I realized the driver should work from the backports version 4.20:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... 7-1.tar.xz
The backports-4.20.17-1 version correctly compiled correctly with:
I then also copied latest drivers (iwlwifi-7265-14.ucode and iwlwifi-7265D-14.ucode) to the /lib/firmware dir. This last step was maybe unnecessary or would not work, but what happened was worse. When I rebooted and tried to add any network module (including atheros modules for my other PC) those where not added with error I attach.
Dmesg says:
I guess something was wrong when I compiled (but no errors in the compile process). Did anyone try what I tried or knows how to solve?
My regards,
Gian
I recently received a new PC which I am trying to use with my collection of linux USB systems. I use and like a lot the old frugal install of Slacko 5.7.0 (with 3.10.32 kernel).
Problem is that Lenovo PC has a wifi card which requires one version of the iwlwifi-7265-ucode driver from intel. I successfully managed to add that driver to a slacko64 install I have, but the earliest kernel that driver is produced for is 3.19. I found out about project backports though:
https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
I tried to compile latest version (but it would not compile with an error). To be able to start the compile process I was forced to add kernel_sources-3.10.32-slacko_PAE.sfs to my system by the way, the devx sfs was not enough for reasons I don't understand. Anyway, then I realized the driver should work from the backports version 4.20:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... 7-1.tar.xz
The backports-4.20.17-1 version correctly compiled correctly with:
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make defconfig-iwlwifi
make
make install
Dmesg says:
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[ 741.296636] compat: Unknown symbol ktime_divns (err 0)
My regards,
Gian