Wifi on OMV

Hi,

I've just installed OMV 7 on an old laptop which doesn't have an ethernet connector.

During the installation, i had to enter my wifi settings and everything worked fine. The installer could connect to internet and download everything it needed. I saw the computer in my router dashboard.

At the end of the installation, the system reboots. In the documentation, at the command-line startup screen, the ip of the computer should show up. It doesn't and the computer isn't connected to my router. I tried multiple times to configure the wifi network using omv-firstaid. It says that the configuration is successfully applied. But still no way to have the computer connected to my network.

I also tried to reinstall OMV 7 : same result. I tried with the last version of OMV 6 and exactly the same happens.

I don't get why the wifi connection would work properly during the installation process, but after the first boot, it would stop working.

I didn't find anything helpful on internet so far and i have to admit that I have no clue on how to fix the problem.

If somebody have an idea, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Arnaud.

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

There are 2 files. One starting with 10 and one starting with 30 (not 20) containing my wifi settings.

Here is a "screenshot" : https://ibb.co/5WZ3pNqV

Yes, the content is what i expect.

I tried netplan apply myconfig.yaml but got an error saying

Cannot call OpenvSwitch: ovsdb-server.service is not running.

I didn't find anything helpful on internet to fix this.

I tried a fresh install of debian with gnome to check if the wifi would work. Everything worked fine. But, of course, I couldn't install omv because a windows manager was installed.

So back to a fresh install of OMV 7.4.

I tried configuring wifi using nmcli but it's not installed by default.

I tried

wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp1s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase MYSSID passphrase)

but got the message :

Quote

Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured

rfkill: WLAN soft blocked

Then I tried editing /etc/network/interfaces with the content source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

Created a file /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlp1s0 with the content :

auto wlp1s0
iface wlp1s0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "SFR_2090"
wpa-psk "MY PASSWORD"

Then sudo systemctl restart networking

And finally sudo ifdown wlp1s0 && sudo ifup wlp1s0

but got the message

Quote

ifdown: unknown interface wlp1s0

I'm stuck. No more idea what I could do.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I agree, it's not the best option for a NAS. But I'd like to experiment first before buying more appropriate hardware.

The 2 command results are in attachement.

Thanks

lspci.txt

lsmod.txt

Hi,

Here are the command results.

lsmod2.txt

dpkg.txt

What do you mean by "and before you fix the networking" ? I haven't found a way to make it work yet

Thanks