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WiFI trouble - possibly through update

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• Started 8 years ago by K3nn3th
• Latest reply from Aleksej
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   K3nn3th
   

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   hey folks,

   a couple weeks ago i installed slitaz rolling on a friends laptop. all worked well, apart from connecting to his wifi network. i dont use wifi at home that much, but when i tried it recently i got the same error as my friend did (message below).

   i usually connect via

   /etc/init.d/network.sh restart /path/to/configFile

   upon trying it now (i usually update packages when there are updates) i get the following:

   root@slitaz:/home/tux # /etc/init.d/network.sh restart /home/tux/.network/WiFiKenny
   Loading network settings from /home/tux/.network/WiFiKenny
   Stopping all interfaces
   Killing all daemons
   Shutting down Wi-Fi card
   Stopping all interfaces
   Killing all daemons
   killall: udhcpc: no process killed
   Shutting down Wi-Fi card
   Configuring Wi-Fi interface wlan0... [ Done ]
   Change network settings in /etc/wpa/wpa.conf
   Starting wpa_supplicant for any key type...
   Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
   Line 58: unknown network field 'network'.
   Line 67: failed to parse network block.
   Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa/wpa.conf'.
   Starting udhcpc client on: wlan0...
   udhcpc (v1.23.2) started
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   Sending discover...
   No lease, forking to background
   Connecting to H16H6R4D3...
   .....Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: (null) error: No such file or directory
   [ Failed ]

   can anyone help me on this one? i dont know where the problem came from..

   thanks!

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   There have been many changes to /etc/init.d/network.sh and /etc/network.conf
   http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/rev/6c2d6362887d
   http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/rev/f3e7c1cc6aef
   http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/rev/28a9c8b64212
   http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/a8aa6b77a7ed/usr/share/slitaz/network.conf_migration
   The last one adds a script that renames your existing /etc/network.conf and creates a new version of network.conf in a different format.
   There is a bug report about wifi problems: http://bugs.slitaz.org/?id=147
   I run custom boot scripts and have slitaz-boot-scripts blocked for over 3 months to prevent overwrite on updates.
   You can try rolling back the update of slitaz-boot-scripts that owns /etc/init.d/network.sh and /etc/network.conf
   Rename /etc/network.conf to /etc/network.conf.old before the rollback.
   Reconfigure /etc/network.conf installed after the rollback.
   On your system check /var/log/tazpkg.log to see if you updated slitaz-boot-scripts prior to the last update to find the version that worked.
   If you never updated then boot your install iso:
   tazpkg search slitaz-boot-scripts
   Outputs slitaz-boot-scripts version you started with.
   Attached is every version of slitaz-boot-scripts going back to 5.6.1 that was in slitaz-5.0-rc2
   tazpkg install slitaz-boot-scripts-<version>.tazpkg --forced
   After you find the version that works.
   tazpkg block slitaz-boot-scripts

   Attachments

   1. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.7.tazpkg (17 KB, 633 downloads) 8 years old
   2. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.7.1.tazpkg (17 KB, 605 downloads) 8 years old
   3. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.7.tazpkg (15.4 KB, 534 downloads) 8 years old
   4. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.6.tazpkg (15.4 KB, 494 downloads) 8 years old
   5. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.5.tazpkg (15.3 KB, 496 downloads) 8 years old
   6. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.4.tazpkg (15.1 KB, 609 downloads) 8 years old
   7. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.3.tazpkg (15.1 KB, 473 downloads) 8 years old
   8. slitaz-boot-scripts-5.6.1.tazpkg (15.1 KB, 604 downloads) 8 years old

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   K3nn3th
   

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   @mojo: thanks a lot for the workaround! now im mobile again :)

   5.7 didnt work, but 5.6.7 did..

   Posted 8 years ago #
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   K3nn3th
   

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   as said, it works for me.
   my friend gets the follwing output:

   stopping all interfaces
   Killing all daemons
   Shutting down wifi card
   Configuring wlan0... [ Done ]
   Creating: /etc/wpa/wpa.conf
   Starting wpa_supplicant for WPA-PSK...
   Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
   rfkill: WLAN hard blocked
   Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): Operation not possible due to RF-kill
   Starting udhcpc client on: wlan0...
   Selected interface 'wlan0'

   any hints? thanks!

   Posted 8 years ago #
5. 

   Aleksej
   

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   Hi K3nn3th,

   rfkill: WLAN hard blocked

   Quick answer: very possible, this error means WLAN card was switched off manually by your friend.
   It may be slider without fixation (as for my netbook) of Fn + F3 keys combination (as for my son's notebook), or something similar. Switch WLAN card on, wait few seconds and try to start Wi-Fi connection again.

   Long answer: hardware switch may not help. Some WLAN cards supporting software Rfkill. You can install package (I can't recall the name) and manage Rfkill in the command line. Please, search forum for "rfkill" — mojo answered few times.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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