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Started 11 years ago by JohnRayMitch
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JohnRayMitch

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I have an old IBM T30, I've been looking around for a good distro for this laptop and I came across Slitaz. I love it and it works great. I just can't seem to get the wifi to work. It give me an error status for wlan0. I'm assuming it could be a firmware issue but I just wanted some opinions and some help to configure and fix this.

Maybe this will help just in case I overlooked something.

john@JohnNetbook:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host JohnNetbook Kernel 2.6.32-5-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro CrunchBang Linux statler
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - M (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 4784.31 clocked at 2400.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1400x1050@50.3hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2 GLX Version 1.3 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0 BusID: 00:1f.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 8000 BusID: 02:08.0
           Card-2 Intersil Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset driver orinoco_pci BusID: 02:02.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (5.4% used) 1: /dev/sda FUJITSU_MHV2060A 60.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 9.2G used: 2.4G (28%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 44G used: 680M (2%) fs: ext4
           ID:swap-1 size: 2.06GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0C mobo: 58.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3977
Info:      Processes 119 Uptime 8 min Memory 273.2/1009.7MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.21

Posted 11 years ago #

jjk

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i had a wifi problem too when i first installed slitaz, i fixed it by downloading the right firmware.
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/network-wireless-and-wired (ignore the wired problem that was just stupid)

have you already followed the documentation page about this?
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:wifi-easy

Posted 11 years ago #
JohnRayMitch

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Ok well I finally got Ethernet running but I still can't get my wifi card to work. I can't seem to find much info on my card. I'm not sure it slitaz supports it. :(
```
root@slitaz:/home/john# lspci | grep -i network
02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3874 [Prism 2.5]/ISL3872 [Prism 3] (rev 01)
```
Posted 11 years ago #
jjk

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Have you tried following the link i posted, and if so where exactly did you get stuck?

And otherwise what have you already done?

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/drvfohg1fecycgm/linux-orinoco_pci-2.6.37.tazpkg
Open terminal,su,password: root
Install driver:
tazpkg install linux-orinoco_pci-2.6.37.tazpkg
Load the driver:
modprobe orinoco_pci
Configure the connection:
Applications/System Tools/Wifi configuration

Intersil Prism chipset does not require firmware or support WPA security.

Reference:
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/PCI_HERMES.html
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco

Posted 11 years ago #
JohnRayMitch

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Alright, I got a step further. The module loaded and now I have eth1 along with my lo and eth0. I've tried to configure my wirless and I thought it worked for a moment but now I cant get eth1 to connect.

I tried connecting through the command line to see if that worked and it throws this error at me.
```
Error for wireless request "Set Tx Power" (8B26) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
```
I don't want to give up on Slitaz but it's definitely been some work.
Posted 11 years ago #
jjk

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If you can see it in iwconfig
try setting up slitaz to use eth1 through tazpanel?
Maube you got a syntax error?
Mojo might know how to fix this.

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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@JohnRayMitch
Wireless Access Point= WAP
WAP must broadcast an ESSID name,DHCP server enabled.
Turn off all security(WPA,WPA2,WEP) on the WAP.
I disconnect the cable from the WAPs WAN to cable modem when turning off WAP security so neighbors can't steal bandwidth.
Open 2 terminal windows
Term#1 will be used to monitor kernel messages/errors after entering the following command:
tail -f /var/log/messages
Term#2 su Password: root
Shutdown network:
/etc/init.d/network.sh stop
Unload driver:
modprobe -r orinoco_pci
Reload driver:
modprobe orinoco_pci

Configure connection:
leafpad /etc/network.conf
INTERFACE="eth1"
DHCP="yes"
STATIC="no"
WIFI="yes"
WIFI_INTERFACE="eth1"
WIFI_ESSID="WAP ESSID"
WIFI_KEY=""
Save,Exit
Restart networking:
/etc/init.d/network.sh start
Verify connection:
ping WAP LAN side i.p. address (web browser address to configure WAP)
If ping fails, shutdown network.sh script.
/etc/init.d/network.sh stop
Try connecting manually:
[1]ifconfig eth1 down
[2]ifconfig eth1 up
[3]ifconfig eth1 <= Do you see HWaddr address of wireless adapter?
Verify the wireless adapter is receiving the WAP broadcast:
[4]iwlist eth1 scan <= Is wifi adapter receiving WAP broadcast with ESSID: and Address:?
Set the wireless adapter to associate to WAP's ESSID:
[5]iwconfig eth1 essid WAP's ESSID: without italics
Verify wireless adapter is associated to WAP:
[6]iwconfig eth1 <= Do you see MAC address of wireless access point after Access Point:
Request i.p. address from WAP dhcp server:
[7]udhcpc -i eth1
Verify i.p. address was assigned to wifi adapter:
[8]ifconfig eth1 <= Do you see inet addr: Bcast: Mask:
Verify connection:
[9]ping WAP LAN side i.p. address (web browser address to configure WAP)

If you still can't connect:
Post any errors and connection info from Term#1.
Post which step failed above and the result.

Posted 11 years ago #

JohnRayMitch

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Alright well I got it to connect when I don't set a password. But when I do it won't connect. Here what the terminals say.

Terminal 1

Dec 20 17:45:00 (none) auth.notice su: + /dev/pts/2 john:root
Dec 20 17:46:46 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Dec 20 17:48:04 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Dec 20 17:52:27 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Dec 20 17:52:45 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Dec 20 17:53:48 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Dec 20 17:53:49 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
Dec 20 17:54:25 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Dec 20 17:54:26 (none) user.debug kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

Terminal 2

Configuring eth1...                                                  [ OK ]
Starting wpa_supplicant for NONE/WEP...
Line 762: Invalid WEP key 0 'sunny'.
Line 762: failed to parse wep_key0 'sunny'.
Line 765: failed to parse network block.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/tmp/wpa.conf'.
Starting udhcpc client on: eth1...
udhcpc (v1.18.4) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, forking to background

Posted 11 years ago #

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Starting wpa_supplicant for NONE/WEP...
Line 762: Invalid WEP key 0 'sunny'.
Line 762: failed to parse wep_key0 'sunny'.
Line 765: failed to parse network block.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/tmp/wpa.conf'.

Remove quotation marks from WEP key.
This can't be done from Wifi configuration gui.
You must use a text editor to edit /etc/network.conf
Open terminal,su, password: root
leafpad /etc/network.conf
Change
WIFI_KEY="sunny"
to
WIFI_KEY=sunny
Close leafpad:
File/Save/File/Quit
/etc/init.d/network.sh restart

Reference:
/etc/init.d/network.sh
NOTE (20120303) struggled to connect with WEP key in
cooking but work with 3.0. Busybox/iwconfig seems buggy
but connection work with wpa_supplicant and unquoted
wep_key0
IWCONFIG_ARGS="$IWCONFIG_ARGS key $WIFI_KEY"
iwconfig $WIFI_INTERFACE essid "$WIFI_ESSID" $IWCONFIG_ARGS
wpa_supplicant can also deal with wep encryption
Tip: Use unquoted strings for hexadecimal key in wep_key0

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