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dais

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 5

wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

I have a usb wifi dongle, D-link DWA-140, sticked in an old box celeron 1000 with 384M RAM, nVidia gforce 440 mx 64Mb. lsusb shows it sticked - Bus 001 device 002: ID 07d1:3c0a, lsmod shows, that modules for this dongle are loaded - rt2870sta, rt2800usb, rt2800lib, rt2x00usb, rt2x00lib, like in other linuxes, where it works. But I can not get it running not from terminal nor from tazpanel.

In tazpanel it shows configuration file with some values for wifi settings, here are those:

WIFI="yes"

WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"

WIFI_ESSID="my home"

WIFI_MODE="managed"

WIFI_KEY="my key"

WIFI_KEY_TYPE="none" here I checked many combinations like WPA, WPA2, WEP...

WIFI_CHANNEL=""

WIFI_IWCONFIG_ARGS=""

So, what can I do to make it working?

tropetre

Member

Registered: 2012-07-06

Posts: 79

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

What are the outpusts of iwconfig and ifconfig? If a wireless network is present in iwconfig but not in ifconfig, simply type:

$ su

#ifconfig [networkname] up.

dais

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

Hi, Tropetre! By [networkname] you mean "my home" or "wlan0"?

Cose I tried ifconfig wlan0 up under root, but it sayed me, that there is no such device or something, I don't remember now. After work I'll be near the slitaz-box and I could provide you better answer.

Thanks.

dais

Member

Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

Hey, Tropetre! I found same issue in this forum and it seems to be resolved. I'll try to do as thay did. Maybe it'll be good for me too, then I'll post here if it works.

Thank you for helping me.

link is: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-issue-rt2780

tropetre

Member

Registered: 2012-07-06

Posts: 79

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

By networkname I mean wlan0 for example, but it may just as well be eth1 or some like that.

Iwconfig would show the name of the wireless network.

dais

Member

Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

Hi!

So, I made all like in wifi-issue-rt2870 with all modprobes -r and yes! it's working!

Now, could it be made automatically at system start in some way?

tropetre

Member

Registered: 2012-07-06

Posts: 79

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

I believe that if you'd put a script file in /etc/init.d/ the it will be executed at boot although I've never used this, worth a shot but I think you'll find it easiest to google for an answer.

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

Just modify /etc/network.conf and set the default interface to wlan0 - that should start wifi at boot time.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

You need to stop rt2800usb from loading.

Blacklisting failed so I removed it:

[c]rm /lib/modules/2.6.37-slitaz/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.gz[/c]

[c]depmod -a[/c]

dais

Member

Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 5

Re: wireless again in Slitaz 4.0

Thanks, mojo! It works! Now I love Slitaz more. So many helpfull people in this community. With no flood and bla-bla-bla.