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Well I'm back once again to give it another shot.
I have a WN825G broadcom PCICIMA wireless card.
I am running Slitaz 3.0 Stable.
I boot my laptop up with the card plug'd in, open a terminal and login as root.
Ifconfig gives me eth0 and lo.
iwconfig gives me lo, eth0 and dummy0.
i have no idea witch of the drivers im soposto use are so i typed in modprobe b43
i check to see if it loaded by typing lsmod
then i got lo eth0 dummy0 wmaster0 and wlan0 when i typed iwconfig
i tryed to bring wmaster0 up and i got the error
"ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported"
I then tryed to bring the wlan0 interface up
and the laptop froze for a bit (3 min)
when it gets back i get this error
"ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory"
thats as far as i can get.
From what i understand i might have the wrong driver. I herd that theres this new Recoded WL driver but its not on slitaz.
I dont know where to go from here i also don't know how to unload b43
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I think I need to clean up my OP.
I have a WN825G pcmcia wifi card, it has a Brodcom BCM3406 rev 3.
I used the B43 driver and firmware. but I have the problems above.
I tried to use the wifi card on Lubuntu but it had the same problem and when I installed the b43 firmware it couldn't find any networks when I scanned.
This is a really troubling issue because the card works out of the box on the same exact hardware on puppy linux.
I read somewhere about a new driver does that one cover my chipset?
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You could try the broadcom-wl package: "$tazpkg get-install broadcom-wl", then edit rcS.conf, add to LOAD_MODULES, "wl" minus the quotes. Take a look at
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
There's a list of broadcom drivers and supported hardware. Run the lspci command in a terminal to see your device details. Also, the b43-firmware package may not have the necessary firmware modules, there's instructions in the link on how to install the firmware, you'll need b43-fwcutter package for that.
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i also need help with this, i tried this a while back but i couldn't get it to work? I want to give it another shot so can anyone help me? First how do i check which drivers i have intalled? Because i remember installing some of the broadcomm b43 drivers...I think once i know what i have i can provide u with more info to my problem. Which command should i run in the terminal?? thanks in advanced.
oh p.s. I have
02:00.0 Network Controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN controller [14e4:4320] (rev02)
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@idi_idi_idi
The pci.id of your wireless controller indicates the b43legacy driver and firmware is the correct combo.
Verify the package with b43legacy is installed:
tazpkg search linux-wireless
If not:
tazpkg get-install linux-wireless
Follow my directions here:
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-stumped-wpc11-pcmcia-card-on-old-laptop-have-ethernet
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When i run tazpkg search linux-wireless, it says i have
1 installed package, linux-wireless 2.6.30.6.
Mojo, will the instructions you gave on that link also work for slitaz 3?
I will give that a try a bit later and then report back here to see what happened.
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Hi again i'm stuck on this part:
Applications/System Tools/Wifi configuration
root,click OK button
When i type in the first line above here it says not found, i even tried it with root at the end so im not sure what to do.
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Slitaz 3.0 has reached end of life. No more software upgrades or fix's,the 3.0 repo is frozen.
Don't try to upgrade 3.0, it's not worth the trouble.Start with a fresh install of 4.0
The instructions will work for 3.0, the main difference is Wireless manager.
SliTaz-3.0 :
Open terminal
Type
su
Enter
You're asked for the Password:
Type
root
Enter
Type
wifibox
Enter
Wireless manager opens
If the wireless access point has no security dbl-clicking the access point on Networks tab may connect you.
Do this if the wireless access point has WPA or WEP (Encryption on)because dbl-clicking and adding the password won't work:
Click Configuration tab
Type configuration information in boxes:
Interface:
ESSID:
If Secure=> Key:
Choose WPA or WEP or any from dropdown menu
Click Start connection button
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Hello again i installed slitaz 4 and installed the b43-fwcutter and the b43legacy-firmware-3.130.20.0.tazpkg and followed your instructions. When i type wifibox the wifi network opens and i can see my access point there, but if i double click it(while the terminal is opened), in the terminal it says:
Stopping all interfaces
Killing all daemons
Shutting down wifi card
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
Configuring wlan0...
Starting udhcpc client on: wlan0...
udhcpc (v1.18.4) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, forking to background.
Without the terminal opened, when i double click it just closes, if i click start wifi it does the same. I tried clicking configure and entering my wifi key and clicking configure to save it and then clicking start and even double clicking again on my access point but i couldn't connect. If you need more info let me know. At least now my wificard lights up so i know it's on, before it didn't do that.
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Turn off the security on your access point, can you connect?
If yes:
Turn access point security back on.
Open terminal
su, password: root
leafpad /etc/network.conf
If your access point use's WEP:
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WEP"
If your access point use's WPA:
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WPA"
Double check that every other configuration is correct.
File/Save,File/Quit
/etc/init.d/network.sh restart
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I'm not really sure how to turn off the security on my access point. But here's what my configuration file looks like:
WIFI="yes"
WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"
WIFI_ESSID="" i have my network name here
WIFI_MODE="managed"
WIFI_KEY="" i have my password in here
WIFI_KEY_TYPE="WEP"
WIFI_CHANNEL=""
WIFI_IWCONFIG_ARGS=""
my output of iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
And when i run the /etc/init.d/network.sh restart command
I get this:
Setting hostname...
Configuring loopback...route: SIOCADDRT: File exists
Configuring wlan0...
Starting wpa_supplicant for NONE/WEP...
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
Delete '/var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore
Failed to initialize control interface '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
Starting udhcpc client on: wlan0...
Selected interface 'wlan0'
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There is no ESSID name in the output of your iwconfig
You can't connect if you don't set your wireless access point to broadcast it's ESSID.
my output of iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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It's a bit weird, in the tazpanel network under wireless connection if i click on start, my network shows up and then it says off/any in that part, but before i click start it does show the name of my network on that part. So i'm not really sure what's wrong.
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