Driver install not working on TrueNAS Cobia 22.22 about 88x2bu-20210702 HOT 5 OPEN

Hi @Weasy666

Is there anything that can be done, to make the installationg work again?

I'm sure it can be done but we need to figure out the problem so as to see if it is feasible.

I'm not familiar with TrueNAS so help me understand. What distro is it based on? Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu or ?

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As far as i know, it's based on Debian, but they left out a lot of drivers:

If you click log content (click to reveal) and expand that, you can see, that some member named ieee80211_ptr seems to be missing in the kernel headers of TrueNAS.

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you can see, that some member named ieee80211_ptr seems to be missing in the kernel headers of TrueNAS.

Yes, I saw that. That very well could be a problem in the kernel headers. I think this is something that should be reported to TrueNAS. I just checked and this repo was cloned 254 times yesterday. My point being that this is very heavily used repo and I am not seeing this from anyone else.

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The new TrueNAS version was just released last week and maybe i am a bit of an odd ball to Wi-Fi with my server. Reporting to TrueNAS is probably useless, they don't want to support Wi-Fi on their professional/enterprise server software 🫤

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What could be easier than discovering how to work around the TrueNAS broken header files is to look inside to see if they compiled any usb wifi drivers in their distro.

$ cd /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76
$ ls -l

Paste what you get and we will know what is available.

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