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blakdeath

Member

Registered: 2012-09-17

Posts: 1

cannot connect to wireless networks

I have an "intel corporation pro/wireless 5100 agn [shiloh] network connection"

I can see the SSIDs just fine (the wireless card is working) however, when i try connecting to one, slitaz stops detecting SSIDs and ethernet stops working as well

thanks in advance,

Adel

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

Which version of SliTaz ? 4.0 ?

Which way did you use to configure your wireless network ?

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

@blakdeath

Install all (7) firmware-iwlwifi tazpkgs

Open second terminal:

tail -f /var/log/messages

In the first terminal :

modprobe -r iwlagn

modprobe iwlagn

Look for messages with firmware loading errors in second terminal.

If you need more help post errors and output from:

lspci -nn

Slitaz network script only supports one (1) network adapter.

If your attempting to use wireless(wlanX) then ethernet won't work.

You have to change /etc/network.conf INTERFACE="wlanX" to INTERFACE="ethX" to use ethernet.

Use ifconfig command to determine your interface names.

Adel

Member

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 28

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

blakdeath here,

@ceel it's slitaz 3.0

@mojo

I tried installing the iwlwifi packages with the package manager and i get "unknown wifi driver. please run one of the following drivers"

also neither work after my connection attempt(ethernet and wifi) and i have to restart to get the network up and running again

Adel

Member

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 28

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

solved

apparently slitaz cannot handle wpa2-psk encryption so i set the encryption to wpa

the wireless is working now

thanks everyone

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

@Adel

With SliTaz 3.0 the package for wireless interface is get-wifi-firmware but you probably already download it if it works

Adel

Member

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 28

Re: cannot connect to wireless networks

yes it was working the problem was with the encryption method, i found that even though i used wpa2, it was still listed as WEP in the wireless menu, so i simply changed to wpa.

Is there some way to work using WPA2?