<![CDATA[Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least).]]>Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/acbc8a6f-4000-48aa-b624-89d1427bb0d0/getting-wi-fi-to-work-on-alpine-is-a-fucking-mess-for-me-at-least-.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 14:08:57 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 14:07:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:18:35 GMT]]>@ariadne @thomholwerda I switched away from SDDM because of this bug and haven't switched back yet, but since https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/100373 SDDM should just use tty7. I don't think it's in a stable release yet though.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berkeley.edu.pl/objects/89225696-581d-40a5-9559-32ea02932af7https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berkeley.edu.pl/objects/89225696-581d-40a5-9559-32ea02932af7Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:18:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:02 GMT]]>@ariadne Alright, thanks! I'll figure out how to do that and, well, do it!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116419461283285557https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116419461283285557Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:09:49 GMT]]>@thomholwerda yes, this is a design problem with elogind: it will return /dev/tty1 as available when it is being used by a getty. you can work around it by turning off getty on /dev/tty1.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116418556067076707https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116418556067076707Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:09:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:10:51 GMT]]>@camelia I got it figured out! Not entirely sure what I did wrong, but after some fiddling and more doc reading, everything is perfectly working Wi-Fi-wise now. 😄

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116403932457264528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116403932457264528Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:10:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:05:45 GMT]]>@thomholwerda hmm what are you using for Wi-Fi? wpa_supplicant?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.camelia.dev/users/camelia/statuses/01KP6BVNXD2HGF0PEA41HCR1XThttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.camelia.dev/users/camelia/statuses/01KP6BVNXD2HGF0PEA41HCR1XTTue, 14 Apr 2026 16:05:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:49:12 GMT]]>@thomholwerda@exquisite.social check the logs? this sounds a little bit like sddm started by a service can't bind to the tty (because of something bad going on with udev, for instance)

... also, is udev even running? and does sddm depend on it? (check /etc/init.d/sddm)

i'm on alpine but I start my session by typing startx so I can only guess 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/10b84f39-e0d6-4d41-9c31-100813601d3chttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://donotsta.re/objects/10b84f39-e0d6-4d41-9c31-100813601d3cTue, 14 Apr 2026 15:49:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:45:03 GMT]]>@thomholwerda I have to confess I'm now at that time in my life where basic stuff like wifi just needs to work out of the box, without too much fiddling around 😅 hope you find a solution, I have little experience with Alpine myself, unfortunately.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/116210641569204059/statuses/116403595110876830https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/116210641569204059/statuses/116403595110876830Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:45:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Getting Wi-Fi to work on Alpine is a fucking mess (for me at least). on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:28:50 GMT]]>Wi-Fi works finally, but since switching to edge, the boot process ends at Starting Display Manager [OK] and then just sits there indefinitely. If I switch to a different console with ctrl + alt + F1 and then start sddm manually, it works fine.

Any people have any idea?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116403531285000907https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116403531285000907Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:28:50 GMT