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I'm trying to configure my wireless on a fresh install of Slackware 13.0. I struggled with this forever about a year ago with no luck and decided to give it a break but now I'm back at it. So basically this is where I am at. My system information is below, then the output of iwconfig, then the area of rc.inet1.conf that i changed (I don't think I did it right).
root@darkstar:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
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
root@darkstar:~# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
This would be the portion of the rc.inet1.conf file i changed.
Code:
Contents of Changes in rc.inet1.conf
## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your data. (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)
IFNAME[4]="wlan0"
#IPADDR[4]=""
NETMASK[4]="255.255.255.0"
USE_DHCP[4]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="Netgear"
DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"
DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"
DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"
DHCP_IPADDR[4]="192.168.22.22"
WLAN_ESSID[4]=Netgear
WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed
#WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"
#WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"
#WLAN_KEY[4]="D5A31F54ACF0487C2D0B1C10D2"
#WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=96389dc66eaf7e6efd$
#WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"
WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper"
WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=60
## Some examples of additional network parameters that you can use.
## Config information for wlan0:
IFNAME[4]="wlan0" # Use a different interface name instead of
# the default 'eth4'
okay..i could just comment everything out again in inet1. lol whats wicd and how do i use it?
your reply makes me feel like this fix should be simple so I'm hopeful about that. lol last time i was working with ubuntu and it was insane trying to get linux to work with my broadcom chip.
Do you need a key? or is it open?
if yes
uncomment
Quote:
#WLAN_KEY[4]="D5A31F54ACF0487C2D0B1C10D2"
#WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=96389dc66eaf7e6efd$
#WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"
and put in your key
You can use wpa_gui to do the changes, ans scan for networks
No where in your information did you mention the wireless card type you have in there. My DV6000 had a broadcom wireless card which requires driver setup and a kernel compile to get working. Neither are hard, but you are wasting your time if you haven't gotten the hardware working. Instructions for all of that can be found with a forum search.
okay yeah thats what i need to do probably. i do have a broadcom card so I'm going to see if i can search the forum for what i need to do and post back here if i have problems.
So I put the b43-fwcutter in the /lib/firmware folder after running tar xjf and make. Now I have downloaded the broadcom driver and I'm trying to run tar xjf on it (as you can see below) and its throwing all the errors you see below. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Code:
root@darkstar:/media/disk# tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/nas: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/wl: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/WHERE_FROM: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/libbcmcrypto.so: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
So I put the b43-fwcutter in the /lib/firmware folder after running tar xjf and make. Now I have downloaded the broadcom driver and I'm trying to run tar xjf on it (as you can see below) and its throwing all the errors you see below. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Code:
root@darkstar:/media/disk# tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/nas: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/wl: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/WHERE_FROM: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/libbcmcrypto.so: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0: Cannot change ownership to uid 1002, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
You don't have permission to extract that onto your thumbdrive. Copy the tarball into your homedirectory and extract it there.
so I'm trying to run this sudo command for the driver but i can't figure it out for the life of me (I've been playing with it for the last 3 hours or so). Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Code:
root@darkstar:~# cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0
root@darkstar:~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0# ls
WHERE_FROM kmod/ libbcmcrypto.so* nas* wl*
root@darkstar:~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0# cd kmod
root@darkstar:~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod# ls
wl_apsta.o wl_apsta_mimo.o
root@darkstar:~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod# sudo../../lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
bash: sudo../../lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter: No such file or directory
root@darkstar:~/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod#
It looks like /lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter doesn't exist. And your output doesn't include any commands that would verify that. Have you checked?
Also, just a couple friendly tips.. if you're logged in as root, you don't need to use sudo. And you can avoid typing "../.." by using an absolute path. ie, "/lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter".
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