SliTaz Forum

Barocco

Member

Registered: 2013-03-04

Posts: 3

Wireless manager has no tabs

I can't get the on-board wireless card on my old Acer Aspire to work (I'm using Slitaz 4). As in the situation described in

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wifi-stumped-wpc11-pcmcia-card-on-old-laptop-have-ethernet

my wireless manager has no tabs (so no drivers tab). I followed the instructions given in the post but the wireless manager shows no wifi access point and still has no tabs.

Here is some output:

root@slitaz:/home/tux# lspci -nn | grep -i Network

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

root@slitaz:/home/tux#

Linux slitaz 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 10:36:39 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

root@slitaz:/home/tux# lsmod grep | b43

sh: b43: not found

[I don't get this because b43 comes up in lsmod]

root@slitaz:/home/tux# ls sys/class/net

ls: sys/class/net: No such file or directory

root@slitaz:/home/tux# cat /etc/network.conf

# /etc/network.conf: SliTaz system wide networking configuration.

# Config file used by: /etc/init.d/network.sh

#

# Set default interface.

INTERFACE="eth0"

# Dynamic IP address.

# Enable/disable DHCP client at boot time.

DHCP="yes"

# Static IP address.

# Enable/disable static IP at boot time.

STATIC="no"

# Set IP address and netmask for a static IP.

IP="192.168.0.6"

NETMASK="255.255.255.0"

# Set route gateway for a static IP.

GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"

# Set DNS server for a static IP.

DNS_SERVER="192.168.0.1"

# Wifi connection.

# Enable/disable wireless connection at boot time.

WIFI="yes"

# Wifi interface (iwconfig) and ESSID.

WIFI_INTERFACE="wlan0"

WIFI_ESSID="any"

WIFI_MODE="managed"

WIFI_KEY=""

WIFI_KEY_TYPE="none"

WPA_DRIVER=""

WIFI_CHANNEL=""

WIFI_IWCONFIG_ARGS=""

root@slitaz:/home/tux# cat /etc/network.conf

Any help much appreciated

emgi

Member

Registered: 2012-12-17

Posts: 127

Re: Wireless manager has no tabs

Looks like you have the same issue I had las week.

Please check: http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/wlan-config-not-persistant

The problem likely is that you haven't downloaded the firmware at all or used the wrong version (like me..)

/emgi

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,173

Re: Wireless manager has no tabs

Open terminal,su,password: root

Don't type # in the commands it indicates root user must do the commands.

Install b43 firmware:

[c]# tazpkg install[/c] b43-firmware-4.150.10.5.tazpkg

Unload/load b43:

[c]# modprobe -r b43[/c]

[c]# modprobe b43[/c]

Configure /etc/network.conf :

[c]leafpad /etc/network.conf[/c]

Change

INTERFACE="eth0"

to

INTERFACE="wlan0"

file/save/file/quit

Restart networking:

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

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

Applications /System Tools / Wifi configuration

Some answers and comments:

my wireless manager has no tabs (so no drivers tab)

There is no tabbed wifibox in Slitaz-4.0 it was removed after Slitaz-3.0

root@slitaz:/home/tux# lsmod grep | b43

sh: b43: not found

[I don't get this because b43 comes up in lsmod]

The pipe=> | goes between lsmod and grep to filter the output of lsmod for b43:

[c]lsmod | grep b43[/c]

root@slitaz:/home/tux# ls sys/class/net

ls: sys/class/net: No such file or directory

The file path begins with / : [c]ls /sys/class/net[/c]

Barocco

Member

Registered: 2013-03-04

Posts: 3

Re: Wireless manager has no tabs

I followed the instructions and now it's working!

Many thanks.