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ladies_and_gentleman
offlineMember
I have dell c600 laptop with ~300 MB of ram and Slitaz 4.0 installed.
How do I configure wifi on it?
I have Linksys AE1000 wifi dongle: http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-us/support/adapters/AE1000
I also have IOGEAR GWU625 dongle: http://www.iogear.com/product/GWU625/
Which one I should configure and how? Please explain every step since I am new to Linux environment.
Let me know if more info needed.
Thank you.
mojo
offlineKey Master
To identify wifi chipsets USBIDS:
Plug in both wifi usb adapters.
Open terminal
lsusb
Post output in your reply.
ladies_and_gentleman
offlineMember
(I only have one USB port)
For the IOGEAR:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8172
USB: 0BDA:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter
For the Linksys:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 13b1:002f
USB: 13B1:002F Linksys AE1000 v1 802.11n [Ralink RT3572]
Without any thing connected:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
mojo
offlineKey Master
# tazpkg install firmware-rtlwifi-20120625.tazpkg
# tazpkg install linux-r8712u-2.6.37.tazpkg
# modprobe r8712u
# lsmod | grep r8712u
# ls /sys/class/net
#/etc/init.d/networking.sh restart
Applications/System Tools/Wifi configuration
Problems:
[1]Open 2nd terminal to monitor kernel messages while firmware/module loads:
tail -f /var/log/messages
Go to first terminal:
# modprobe -r r8712u ; modprobe r8712u
Post any errors related to module,firmware,or rfkill switch in the 2nd terminal.
[2]Post output from the commands:
ls /sys/class/net
ifconfig
cat /etc/network.conf
iwconfig
linux-r8712u-2.6.37.tazpkg (110.2 KB, 1,363 downloads) 11 years old 
davis77
offlineMember
Hi Mojo,
I have the same problem except the modprobe shows that the driver is loaded but step 5 fails for me:
# ls /sys/class/net
This fails and doesn't show a wlan0 module. I guess the driver isn't registering or something?
I have used this wireless card on other linux flavors and they always use the rtl8191su driver. But Slitaz seems to use the r8712u. That's what shows up in modprobe.
Any suggestions on what to do next?
Thanks for any ideas.
mojo
offlineKey Master
@davis77
To identify wifi chipset USBIDS:
Plug in wifi usb adapter.
Open terminal
lsusb
Identify slitaz kernel:
uname -a
Post output in your reply.
davis77
offlineMember
Thanks Mojo. I am also adding the info from a dmesg command. It's telling me something but I'm not sure what. It seems to see the card though:
LSUSB:
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13b1:002f
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1c4f:0003
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1a2c:0021
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:8172
mark@mdst:~$
UNAME:
Linux mdst 3.2.53-slitaz #4 SMP Sun Jun 15 09:52:56 Europe 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
From DMESG:
usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831
r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:08:a1:c7:c9:e6
r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
davis77
offlineMember
Mojo,
I apologise but it seems to be working now. I have two wireless cards on my system and the Realtek wouldn't work when I booted. But I followed your instructions and plugged it in and suddenly the system saw it. I took the other wireless card out and this realtek actually worked and obtained an IP address. It's really strange. It's like it wouldn't work at boot if the other card was inserted also. I even tried adding a wlan1 to go with the wlan0 that was there already but that didn't work either.
Something about plugging it in after the system was running seemed to work this time.
mojo
offlineKey Master
@davis77
It's always best to figure it out on your own.
This is an old thread targeted at slitaz-4.0
linux-r8712u-2.6.37.tazpkg is compiled for slitaz-4.0 which is 2.6.37 kernel
Remove if installed: tazpkg remove linux-r8712u
uname -a reports your running kernel 3.2.53 :
Linux mdst 3.2.53-slitaz #4 SMP Sun Jun 15 09:52:56 Europe 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
vendor: 0bda ("Realtek Semiconductor Corp."), product: 8172 ("RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter")
5.0-rc2 kernel 3.2.53 includes the r8712u driver but you still have to install firmware-rtlwifi-20120625.tazpkg.
vendor: 13b1 ("Linksys"), product: 002f ("AE1000 v1 802.11n [Ralink RT3572]")
Your other wifi usb adapter is a ralink that uses rt2800usb driver, ralink firmware is on the live cd.
The ralink adapter should work out of the box.
The slitaz network script only supports one network adapter.
davis77
offlineMember
Yup, my other adapter is a Ralink. It worked fine.
My Realtek works fine also. The issue seemed to be trying to have them both inserted at the same time. I've been trying so many different Linux flavors lately trying to find the right system that I found some supported only one of them and it was easiest to just leave them both in.
Slitaz is pretty amazing. It's exactly what I was looking for. No more hopping around.
mojo
offlineKey Master
r8712u (RTL8191S WLAN Adapter) works very slow and sometimes is just - stalled -
Why?
The Realtek r8712u driver has been in staging forever,no one is working on it.
I own a belkin adapter that uses r8712u:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:945a Belkin Components F7D1101 v1 Basic Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188SU]
Ndiswrapper-1.61 with winxp driver fails as well.
Works great with winxp and win7 but worthless with linux.
Ralink USB wifi adapters that use rt2800usb driver are the best on linux.
Realtek USB wifi is very bad on linux.
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