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Boa Vida

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Registered: 2020-03-12

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Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

Hello there. I placed 5.0 rolling into an old Panasonic tough book made in '06 I believe. Wifi not detected. I honestly have no clue what to do. I've read other threads but I have no idea where to start. I'm a newbie and would highly appreciate step by step.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

Slitaz doesn't include the firmware for most wireless adapters. The user has to identify the wifi adapter,install the package that has the correct firmware,reload the adapters kernel module.

Not newbie friendly.

Boa Vida

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Registered: 2020-03-12

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Re: Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

Hello Mojo. Saw that you have helped many people and that's cool man. The tough Book is CF-29 and the info I have is: Intel Corporation Dual Band wireless -N 7260. I'm up for a challenge with this installation. Thanks

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

All commands as root user.

Install the wireless adapter firmware:

[c]tazpkg install firmware-iwlwifi-7260-20171030.tazpkg[/c]

Open 2 terminals.

Terminal 1: monitor potential kernel error on iwlwifi reload such as missing/incorrect firmware.

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

Terminal 2: Reload wireless adapter kernel module driver.

[c]modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi[/c]

If kernel registers wireless interface this will output the wireless adapters alias:

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

Boa Vida

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Registered: 2020-03-12

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Re: Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

Can I send screen shots while using your instructions? I can follow instructions well but can't make sense of the information given by terminal. Please be patient with me.

terrybull

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Registered: 2011-11-06

Posts: 127

Re: Wifi not working using 5.0 rolling on 06 Panasonic Tough book

I too have a cf-29 toughbook. I usually use antix on it but do use Slitaz on the cf-28 and cf-27 toghbooks I have. I've just dug out my cf-29 and loaded Slitaz 5 rolling running from a cd. The wifi does not work on mine. However I have a usb wireless adapter and plugged that in and wifi works straight away. I realise that this doesent solve your issue but will get you going while you solve it. You need the adaptor of course which you may not have. Details:

TP-Link TL-WN321G.

I find this really useful as it seems to work with a most linux distros where the internal wifi does not work or in the case of tmy cf-27 and 28, they do not have internal wi-fi cards.

I am NOT an expert but shouldnt the command 'tazpkg install firmware-iwlwifi-7260-20171030.tazpkg' have 'get-install' to work?

Good luck