RE: Mssing WiFi capabilities Qubes OS R3.2

[hela...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I just installed Qubes R3.2 on a Lenovo Ideapad Yoga i7 with a Realtek RTL8732 NIC. I can't see the NIC under sys-netvm and hence can't change it to a managed device. dmesg shows that it finds it, but the kernel module for the NIC does not seem loaded. In the menu I can only see 'Device not managed' for networking as would be expected.

I have read a few posts about Realtek cards being troublesome to use under Qubes.

Unfortunately I'm not by my Qubes laptop writing this so I cant' post any outputs from the machine.

Anyone have any ideas how to proceed ?

Thanks

[raah...@gmail.com]

Might want to check what driver module needed for fedora. or Maybe you need to use a diff kernel

[hela...@gmail.com]

Thanks. It worked fine on a previous Fedora 24 install on the same computer though, but I can check. I just assumed since it worked there there would be no problems with Qubes.

[hela...@gmail.com]

It loads the module R8723AU for the WiFi and that seems ok. On Lenovo the WiFi card is listed under lsusb as an usb device. Do I then have to add the whole USB controller to sys-net to be able to manage it ?

[raah...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 11:35:12 AM UTC-5, hela...@gmail.com wrote:
> It loads the module R8723AU for the WiFi and that seems ok. On Lenovo the WiFi card is listed under lsusb as an usb device. Do I then have to add the whole USB controller to sys-net to be able to manage it ?

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