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michaelbischof

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Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Nice rescue from fiasco...

One should not forget to be grateful! This morning my long cable that connects a router to my laptop was, ähm, destroyed. No internet! Just an old USB-Wlan-Stick, that I got as a gift 2 years before in our local linux-group but did not use it. On this laptop are among others XP - and slitaz-cooking. With XP no hope. How could I download the necessary driver for this odd old thing?

Though the kernel 2.6.37 is bad against old nvidia-cards it was great in this respect.

Just plugged in the stick, got recognized in a moment, and one minute later I got WLAN-connected. The only unusual thing:

root@slitaz-cooking-hda8:~# ifconfig

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:C5:56:C4:99

          inet addr:192.168.2.21  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:6935 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:7387 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:5563479 (5.3 MiB)  TX bytes:978655 (955.7 KiB)

root@slitaz-cooking-hda8:~# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

dummy0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"WLANMB"  Nickname:"zd1201"

          Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:1A:4F:99:DD:79

          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s

          Retry   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:0/128  Signal level=34/128  Noise level:0/128

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I am no technician. For me it seems that the slitaz-cookinng-installation takes the USB-WLAN-thing for an ethernet-card, right? ,,Link encap:Ethernet" doesn't this mean such a thing?

This happened 2 hours after somebody complained about Linux as ,,frickelware", being forced to navigate in the drivers hell, and gave compliments to Apple in this respect: ready to work, no complaints, one mustn't do annything. Well, in case my Apple would have had such a problem - I would not have got my Internet connection. How good something is one can learn with ease: how good or how bad one feels when running into trouble. Sunshine is always nice, with each tool. How one can get out of the fog counts.