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forsik

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 12

Setting up wifi on eeepc701

I have a netbook eeepc701 and I would like to set up wifi connection on slitaz-base-3.0 image with minimal configuration and the minimum number of packages. I do not need a GUI, as on this unit a weak processor and little memory.

lspci: (network card)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5007EG 802.11 b / g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0)

I ran slitaz-3.0 openbox in wifi adapter works and the network is installed without any problems, you need only specify the settings netbox "wlan0", select the network, and a password. Using the command "ifconfig-a" I got a list in which there is wlan0.

But in slitaz-base, I can not get interface wlan0. I tried to solve this problem in the search for www, and found some instructions for setting up wifi. Most of them are written, if ifconfig-a does not exhibit the desired interface, no drivers for it and is not enabled on this interface in the kernel Linux.

If I understand correctly, the Atheros driver in the kernel is 2.6.30.6-slitaz, I need to install the correct driver. I tried to install the packages, which contain wifi * wifi-firmware *, etc. but the results are not received. There were also attempts to download and compile a new kernel 3.3.1, but I have too little experience to do so.

Search the forums I found a topic http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-wireless-some-tips-if-you-have-troubles#post-4980 following the instructions, I downloaded a newer stable version http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3.0-stable/v3.4/compat-wireless-3.4-rc1-2.tar.bz2 unpacked, but during the installation (make install) I get an error "no rule to make target (modules install) ". I'm not sure what is right has launched a tool compat-wireless: ". / Scripts / driver-select ath5k", make, make install. Bash also gave me several warnings for the locale "us".

Can you help me?

forsik

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 12

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

I managed to get to work interface wlan0, using the instructions http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:wifi-hard, I wrote:

# tazpkg get-install get-wifi-firmware

# tazpkg get-install wpa_supplicant

# modprobe -v ath5k

# ifconfig eth0 down

# ifconfig wlan0 up

# iwconfig wlan0 txpower on

# iwconfig wlan0 essid <MY_ESSID>

# iwconfig wlan0 key <my_wep_key>

I have a network with WPA-PSK encryption:

Using vi, I added to the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

ap_scan = 1

network = {

ssid = "<my_essid>"

scan_ssid = 1

proto = WPA

key_mgmt = WPA-PSK

psk = "<my_clear_key>"

priority = 5

}

then

# Wpa_supplicant-B-W -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -iwlan0

# /Sbin/udhcpc -b -i wlan0 -p/var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid

No errors have not received, the list of top processes I can see the process of wpa_supplicant, but the network could not be established, wget writes bad address for any address. What am I doing wrong?

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plumtreed

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 115

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

While I have an eeepc701 mine has a Realtek wireless connection and I also now use Slitaz4.0 but I do recall  that I changed the connection from wlan0 to wlan1 when I used 3.0.

I can't tell u now why but it connected OK........

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

@forsik

Slitaz base flavor does not include the wireless kernel module drivers:

#tazpkg get-install linux-wireless

Use slitaz network script to manage the connection:

#nano /etc/network.conf

#/etc/init.d/network.sh restart

If you can't get a connection verify you have the DEPENDS installed.

#tazpkg check

@plumtreed

Network interface alias:  ls /sys/class/net

forsik

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 12

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

mojo thank you very much, it works. It was so easy. (I copied /etc/network.conf of running the network slitaz-3.0).

1)The question is how to automatically mount a kernel module on behalf of the root (modprobe -v ath5k) before booting the system?

(solved by editing /etc/init.d/bootopts.sh)

2) Is it possible to install the ath5k driver only without loading a heap of unnecessary drivers?

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

1)#nano /etc/rcS.conf

Add to:

LOAD_MODULES="ath5k"

2)linux-wireless contains 76 files and is 2MB uncompressed

If you remove a module that another module depends on it will break your wireless.

You have to do a complete inventory of which modules are loaded and make sure you don't remove those.

I feel it's more trouble than it's worth.

forsik

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 12

Re: Setting up wifi on eeepc701

I think so too, do not spend a few weeks to compile a minimal kernel, cut a few packages and libraries, and eventually get 8MB instead of 14 mb.