iwlwifi not working on TrueNAS SCALE Cobia

[MZIOkay]

I'm using TrueNAS SCALE Cobia RC.1.
The motherboard of the machine has a pcie wifi card (intel ax200)，and i want use it to create a network.
I tried to install firmware-iwlwifi, the problem occurred to me.

Code:

~ » sudo modprobe iwlwifi

modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.50-production+truenas

The demsg log shows nothing.

It seems that iwlwifi firmware hasn't been installed into the kernel，but i have already install firmware-iwlwifi by apt and reboot the machine.

Can anybody help me?

 

[Arwen]

Wireless networking is likely not supported by TrueNAS. Further, adding anything via APT will likely not survive an upgrade.

I understand that some people want their NAS to be a home hub like other SOHO commercial NASes. But, TrueNAS is written for and paid by the Enterprise market. As such, it is expected to use wired network.

To clarify one thing. TrueNAS SCALE is appliance software, not a general purpose Linux distro with a NAS GUI.

 

[The_Saver]

I have the same issue using TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0.1:

Code:

root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# lspci -nnk -d ::0280
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723] (rev 1a)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200NGW [8086:0084]
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# dmesg | grep iwl
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# uname -a
Linux truenas 6.1.55-production+truenas #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 31 16:07:08 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# sudo modprobe iwlwifi
modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas

It has worked fine before on Bluefin and also Core.

 

[Arwen]

I have the same issue using TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0.1:

Code:

root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# lspci -nnk -d ::0280
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 [8086:2723] (rev 1a)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200NGW [8086:0084]
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# dmesg | grep iwl
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# uname -a
Linux truenas 6.1.55-production+truenas #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 31 16:07:08 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@truenas[/lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas]# sudo modprobe iwlwifi
modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.55-production+truenas

It has worked fine before on Bluefin and also Core.

Whether it worked before with SCALE Bluefin or Core, does not mater. Wireless is likely not supported.

Occasionally the "worked before" has come up, yet for unsupported hardware this does not imply it will continue work. Unfortunately TrueNAS is Enterprise software, which implies some things like wireless would not be used. (Enterprises may use wireless, but not inside their NASes...)

Lots of misc. items are purposefully removed, either because they are irrelevant to NAS functions. Or maybe they are for un-supported hardware. This is likely done on purpose to reduce the support calls and chances of odd software interactions. (And maybe to reduce the software footprint.)


As I have said occasionally, their is no one NAS to rule them all.

 

[kulbir]

I am having having the network issue after upgrading Truenas Scale Cobia from Nightly to TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0.1 connected via wire