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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:12:54 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: nufspmii@disroot.org
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Support for Wildcat Lake
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Hi,

On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:10 +0200
nufspmii@disroot.org wrote:

> I try to install Alpine on a "Wildcat Lake" system, the Acer Swift Air 
> 14 (SFA14-I31). Grub recognizes the keyboard, but the kernel fails to do 
> so. The wireless card and maybe the trackpad are also affected (booted 
> with a USB keyboard). I installed the -stable kernel and that fails, 
> too.
> 
> Weirdly, the Kali live image recognizes everything all right, while 
> running a months-old kernel.

Could you please paste the output of `uname -a` and `lsmod` from a Kali
live image?

> In my understanding, the Linux kernel (both 6.18 and 7.x) is perfectly 
> capable of using this hardware, only if the required parts would be 
> compiled in it. Could you please be so kind and fix this? Helping is for 
> the moment beyond me: I lack a Linux machine to compile the kernel 
> myself from a modified APORT (the said notebook sadly runs Windows and 
> my other one a BSD).

Would be good to know exactly what kernel configs you need. The best we
can do is try to enable the kernel modules listed with lsmod in Kali or
compare with a working kernel config. See if you find /boot/config-* or
/proc/configs.gz and could share the content.

> Thank you.