I just installed the RK3588 module and the included Wifi adapter in my Pocket but now no Wifi adapter is detected after rebooting (several times just in case).
The networking menu in Waybar only shows the Ethernet connection and ethernet does work as expected with the cable adapter.
I installed the Wifi adapter according to the instructions, secured it with the included screw and used the new antenna (attached to the new backplate). I removed the old antenna.
A hunch: maybe you do not have the firmware package installed to get this wifi card to work?
You could check your sudo dmesg output to see if linux fails to load some wifi related firmware during boot? Or maybe dmesg has some other clue as to what is going on?
Looks like your wifi is the mt76x2u which needs the package firmware-mediatek. Do you have that installed? What is your output of sudo reform-check? That should show you which firmware packages are expected to be installed but are not installed on your system.
Probably you’ve already seen this, but just to make sure, in your dmesg snippet the panthor driver couldn’t load because of missing Mali CSF firmware, so that would prevent GPU acceleration from working. But IIRC that’s part of firmware-misc-nonfree as well, does the GPU work now?
Threads like these make me want to add functionality to reform-check which is able to find out that a piece of hardware is present (probably by looking it up in /sys) while the responsible piece of firmware is not. I think at least for the hardware shipped by MNT store such a check would be useful to avoid issues like in this thread early.
@minute I don’t have the hardware here, so if you or anybody else with access to all the wifi chips and panthor graphics could send me some /sys nodes I should check for and which firmware files they each need, I can add this.
No, the list of packages that reform-tools recommends to install is still the same across all CPU modules. Though that should probably change (see my last message). What did change is that the logic how the needed packages are computed is very different now. Instead of carrying a hard-coded list of packages, there are now some meta-packages called reform-desktop-full and reform-desktop-minimal and reform-check just tests whether their Depends and Recommends are installed or not. This should become smarter in case of the firmware packages but I do not (yet) have an rk3588.