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wahfun

Member

Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 2

no wireless on slitaz 4.0

Installed 4.0 on a Aspire One Netbook and all is well except I cannot get wireless up. The netbook uses the Centrino 100-N wireless adapter. In taz panel, I can see wlan0 and it seems to be configured correctly. However, it will not connect. Even though I will not use the netbook with an ethernet connection, I tried that and alas no luck there either. I have checked to make sure I have the correct wireless driver. I have done a clean install and still no luck.  I have searched for a solution but no luck there either. I love the small ram footprint of Slitaz on the netbook which only has 1 GB ram but without the wireless I can't use the system. So, here's hoping someone can help.

thx in advance

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: no wireless on slitaz 4.0

There is no wireless firmware for Centrino-N 100 on the live cd or as a package in the repo.

Download the applicable firmware from here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi

Copy to a flash drive, boot into slitaz,extract the firmware to /lib/firmware

Open 2 terminals.

Terminal 1 is used to monitor kernel msgs:

[c]tail -f /var/log/messages[/c]

Terminal 2 used to reload wireless kernel module after firmware is installed:

modprobe -r wifi kernel module name

modprobe wifi kernel module name

If you need more help post the output from:

[c]lspci -vnn[/c]

[c]lsmod[/c]

[c]ls /sys/class/net[/c]

[c]cat /etc/network.conf[/c]

[c]iwconfig[/c]

Any errors from kernel messages related to firmware, wifi adapter,etc..