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dieselashi

Member

Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 1

Old Laptop -- Lenovo z60m -- Wired Ethernet OK, Wireless Need Help!

Hello Everyone,

Last night I made the switch from #! to SliTaz after coming to the conclusion that my now 6-year old laptop was running slowly and in need of a lighter-weight system.  Very excited to try out this distribution and so far most of my hardware works fine.

I cannot properly configure the wireless adapter.   I have tried to follow the instructions here (http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:wifi-easy) with no success.  On wifibox I have no "drivers" tab, and so proceeded to attempt manual configuration.

Output of command "lspci | grep -i network"

Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

Output of command "tazhw detect-pci"

> Module in use:   intel_agp

> Module in use:   i915

> Module in use:   snd_hda_intel

> Module in use:   tg3

> Module in use:   yenta_socket

> Module in use:   ipw2200

I have run through the length of this guide without success.  Also, any time I either execute commands as in the guide, or try to edit and the /etc/network.conf file, my (wired) ethernet stops working as well and says "disconnected" in the connection properties window.

I am new to SliTaz though not new to Linux... I think maybe I have to edit another configuration file somewhere?  Reload a module after editing?  Not sure, please help!

Thank you!

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Old Laptop -- Lenovo z60m -- Wired Ethernet OK, Wireless Need Help!

Download: http://people.slitaz.org/~mojo/stuff/ipw2200-firmware-3.1.tazpkg

Open terminal,su , password: root

[c]tazpkg install ipw2200-firmware-3.1.tazpkg
modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
/etc/init.d/network.sh restart[/c]
Applications/System Tools/Wifi configuration

The ethernet stops working when using wireless because Slitaz network script only supports (1) one adapter.

To quickly bring up different adapters or connections follow this:

http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:network-script

Usage

But, most interestingly, is that /etc/init.d/network.sh may also use another config file.

It's useful if you're using a laptop, as you can configure multiple connections for multiple access points.

This also works to pre-configure a different network adapter.

Use the default /etc/network.conf for the connection you want to activated on boot.

In this scenario I'm choosing to boot to wireless and make a new configuration for ethernet.

[c]cp /etc/network.conf /etc/eth0[/c]

Configure /etc/eth0 for ethernet

[c]leafpad /etc/eth0[/c]

Switch to ethernet

[c]/etc/init.d/network.sh restart /etc/eth0[/c]

Switch to wireless

[c]/etc/init.d/network.sh restart[/c]