Vik Wolfe

@lea router WOWWW thanks for the bomb everything tip, I found two dungeons that way. seriously made my day 😭🙏 printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

Check whether you got a valid IP address: [code] if the IPv4 address starts with 169.254, the desktop with a Wi Fi card didn't get an address from the router; that's a driver or DHCP issue, not DNS.

sorry forgot to say yes, everything is on one root disk on the Jenkins agent... not my design. idk what else to say tbh

honestly just reset the BIOS and save yourself the pain good luck man!

oh also mods can we pin this thread

oof check BIOS/UEFI: wireless can be disabled there, and BIOS updates sometimes reset it. also check for a physical Wi Fi switch or a function key combo.

@kenji.gill holy cow used 7 Zip to open the SW 252S Firmware EXE, found teh folder with teh INF, and Load driver worked. done with a clean install at last.

yeah so the download is an EXE, Im not sure how to extract it.

hmmmm not sure about that ive run many systems without chipset packages and never noticed a difference. Windows has gotten good at this. but hey ymmv

hmmm on many platforms, the chipset package is mostly INF files that give devices proper names and correct power settings... windows often provides equivalent inbox drivers... but some platforms include real drivers (power management,…