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Last post by Arielshula - Today at 06:35:46 PM #2
General discussion / Re: Good reviews && Bad review...
Last post by AxL - January 12, 2026, 10:24:09 PM
By the way, I forgot to comment that I have searched the internet (using DDG or StartPage) for the problem described by the individual from DistroWatch. And I have found absolutely NOTHING about it.And there is also no report (of this matter) here, on the SparkyLinux forums.
So, I think that this lad's problem, seems to be the typical PICNIC.
Cheers !!
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General discussion / Good reviews && Bad reviews .....
Last post by AxL - January 12, 2026, 06:55:29 PMGood times && Bad times ....
Curiously, almost on the same dates. I have been able to read an excellent review of SparkyLinux, as well as another totally disastrous review.The first of them was published on January 1 (with reference to his article of last July tenth, 2025). A concise, serious, detailed and exhaustive review.
And, where he finally comments that using SparkyLinux was an almost perfect experience.
And OTOH, this one made by Jesse Smith of DistroWatch (using an outdated version - SparkyLinux 2025.09 running CDE) where he ends by saying that the newly installed distribution cannot boot.
Specifically, it ends with this paragraph:
Quote[....]
After a few minutes of working, Calamares reported it had successfully completed the installation and offered to restart the computer. Unfortunately, the freshly installed distribution failed to boot. In fact, a closer look at the disk indicated a boot loader had not been set up, rendering the machine unbootable.
Anyway.... for tastes, colors.
Cheers !!
#4
Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...
Last post by geop - December 31, 2025, 10:53:53 PMOP here once again. No resolution on the Sparky wifi issue, but Debian-testing is now working. I went back to the login screen and noted that it was set to XFCE under Wayland, which I didn't even know was a thing yet. I switched it to plain vanilla XFCE and all is good.
#5
Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...
Last post by geop - December 30, 2025, 06:16:30 PMOP here. I decided to install the latest weekly Debian-testing to see if the same problem occurred.
The installer, which is a netinst type and so needs a network, did NOT find my wifi device, but did give me a list of devices to install drivers for. I picked the mt7921e, the one mentioned in the Sparky error message, and the installer was then happy, and I was able to connect to wifi and continue the install.
(Once I booted to Debian-testing and logged-in, I just got a black screen, but that's a problem for a different forum. Since this was just supposed to be a fun side-experiment, I may just bail on the whole thing ... :-( )
The installer, which is a netinst type and so needs a network, did NOT find my wifi device, but did give me a list of devices to install drivers for. I picked the mt7921e, the one mentioned in the Sparky error message, and the installer was then happy, and I was able to connect to wifi and continue the install.
(Once I booted to Debian-testing and logged-in, I just got a black screen, but that's a problem for a different forum. Since this was just supposed to be a fun side-experiment, I may just bail on the whole thing ... :-( )
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Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...
Last post by geop - December 29, 2025, 04:57:27 AMMany thanks for the suggestion, but I've now tried that both without and with sudo, and in each case, it returned immediately to the terminal prompt with no output. The network icon popup still says "No network devices available".
I saw nothing in journalctl either.
Sorry I didn't reply more quickly, but I didn't see your reply until now because I failed to notice I had to explicitly request alerts. Fixed now.
I saw nothing in journalctl either.
Sorry I didn't reply more quickly, but I didn't see your reply until now because I failed to notice I had to explicitly request alerts. Fixed now.
#7
Installation / Re: boot from iso can't find w...
Last post by pavroo - December 28, 2025, 08:45:11 PM #8
Installation / boot from iso can't find wifi ...
Last post by geop - December 28, 2025, 05:52:42 PMDownloaded sparky rolling xfce version iso from sourceforge, and did check sha256. On iso boot, no wifi. Icon popup says "No network devices available".
Running dmesg -k, I found this:
[ 10.853172] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 10.853413] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853423] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853434] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853435] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin failed with error -2
The last four lines of that are then repeated ten times, which is then followed by this:
[ 11.725202] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: hardware init failed
My system:
Framework-16
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series)
System Version: A7
The laptop is currently running KDE Linux and KaOS with no wifi issues. Sparky was going to be my fun, experimental, distro.
Any suggestions?
Running dmesg -k, I found this:
[ 10.853172] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 10.853413] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853423] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853434] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin (-2)
[ 10.853435] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin failed with error -2
The last four lines of that are then repeated ten times, which is then followed by this:
[ 11.725202] mt7921e 0000:01:00.0: hardware init failed
My system:
Framework-16
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.7 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen 7040 Series)
System Version: A7
The laptop is currently running KDE Linux and KaOS with no wifi issues. Sparky was going to be my fun, experimental, distro.
Any suggestions?
#9
Installation / Re: Sha256sum and bad signatur...
Last post by AxL - December 26, 2025, 07:39:58 PMQuote from: mmah on December 26, 2025, 06:38:58 PM[....] I'm assuming they were fixed in the last few hours.
They haven't fixed anything, because NOTHING was incorrect, tolai.
The isos are exactly the same as the ones, I checked this morning (at 02:16:24 AM and 02:38:14 AM).
As you can see in the links in these two images:
Where all the checksums were absolutely correct.
FOPM
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Installation / Re: Sha256sum and bad signatur...
Last post by mmah - December 26, 2025, 06:38:58 PMSettle down big fellow. Sorry if I pissed in your cornflakes. I've downloaded the iso image,checksums, and signature again. Yes, sha256sum and signature match.
I'm assuming they were fixed in the last few hours. https://sourceforge.net/p/sparkylinux/activity/?page=0&limit=100#694eafad8cc2817262c63797
Thanks for the warm welcome.
I'm assuming they were fixed in the last few hours. https://sourceforge.net/p/sparkylinux/activity/?page=0&limit=100#694eafad8cc2817262c63797
Thanks for the warm welcome.