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Good evening,
I tried to enable wlan on my old acer travelmate 292lmi with this tutorial:
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/no-wifi-newbie-on-live-cd#post-9578.
Drivers are installed, but no network is shown in the manager.
I think the problem is the hardware killswitch like it was with open suse, where i fixed it with acerhk. I would be very happy if there is a workaround for slitaz as it runs so smooth with 1.5GHz and 512MB ram.
Please let me know if you need more details.
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Hello jimknopf,
Before to follow Mojo's tutorial, did you identify you hardware?
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/no-wifi-newbie-on-live-cd#post-9560
What's your wireless interface?
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Hello Ceel,
lspci -nn says it's an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexi co2].
The wired controller is Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C (which is working fine).
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OK, ipw2200-firmware-3.1.tazpkg seems to be the corect firmware.
Unfortunately I don't have Mojo's knowlege on wifi.
What's the result of [c]iwconfig[/c]?
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iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
dummy0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=off Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
and rfkill:
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
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Hard blocked: yes
Try rfkill unblock:
[c]# rfkill unblock all[/c]
[c]# rfkill list all[/c]
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rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
root@slitaz:/home/tux# rfkill block all
root@slitaz:/home/tux# rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
root@slitaz:/home/tux# rfkill unblock all
root@slitaz:/home/tux# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
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linux-acpi has acer-wmi kernel module which may enable the wireless hardware switch.
Open 2 terminals.
Terminal 1 monitors kernel messages:
[c]tail -f /var/log/messages[/c]
Terminal 2 run these commands:
[c]# tazpkg -gi linux-acpi[/c]
[c]# modprobe acer-wmi[/c]
If the laptop hardware isn't supported you'll see this in terminal 1:
May 20 19:23:57 (none) user.info kernel: acer_wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
May 20 19:23:57 (none) user.err kernel: acer_wmi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load
Reference:
http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
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Hello mojo, terminal 1:
May 20 20:08:30 (none) user.info kernel: acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
May 20 20:08:30 (none) user.info kernel: acer-wmi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load
modprobe gives:
modprobe: can't load module acer-wmi (/lib/modules/2.6.37-slitaz/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.ko.gz): No such device
Also the Travelmate 290 is listed as unsupported. Not good... but thank you both for your help!
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Today I installed slitaz via web instead of using the livedisk and followed the tutorial again.
Now the switch and the wlan works just fine and I really don't know why.. maybe there was an update since yesterday.
Well, after shutting down and cutting power for a while I'm stuck on boot with "Configuring eth1...Error for wireless request "set TX Power" (8B26)
Set failed on device eth1 ; Input/output error.
Starting wpa_supplicant for WPA-PSK...
Could not set interface eth1 flags: Operation not possible due to RF-Kill
Failed to initialize driver interface
[...]
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Try this while monitoring kernel messages in 2nd terminal:
[c]# tazpkg install acerhk-0.5.35_2.6.37.tazpkg[/c]
[c]# modprobe acerhk force_series=290 usedritek=1 verbose=1[/c]
[c]# echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled[/c]
The commands came from: http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/?page=laptop_matrix
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That worked! But after cutting power and reboot i get stuck on boot with the same message as above. I reinstalled slitaz several times now. Wlan works for one session, then stuck.
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Try this:
# leafpad /etc/init.d/local.sh
Add:
[c]modprobe acerhk force_series=290 usedritek=1 verbose=1[/c]
[c]echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled[/c]
# leafpad /etc/rcS.conf
Position local.sh to the left of network.sh so local.sh activates wireless before the network script attempts to bring it up.
[c]RUN_SCRIPTS="bootopts.sh system.sh local.sh network.sh"[/c]
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That did the trick!
Thank you very much for your support!
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