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On 2015-04-16, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Apr 15, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote: |
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>> > On April 15, 2015 4:32:52 PM EEST, "Herminio Hernandez Jr. " <herminio.hernandezjr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> I am not seeing my wireless interface when I execute ifconfig |
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>> > Are you running it with the '-a' parameter? |
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>> No I will try when I get home from work. |
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> I ran with the -a parameter and saw the interface. I ran ifconfig wlan0 up |
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> and now I see it when I just run ifconfig. However I am unable to join a |
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> wireless network. |
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This is normal. So far the driver seems to be able to initialize the |
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card, and it shows up. But to connect to actual networks, especially |
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protected networks or different networks, you need something else on top |
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of that. |
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> I have networkmanager installed and running. I also saw |
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> in this thread |
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><https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-964764-view-previous.html> someone |
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> suggested to enable wext in the kernel wich I did and still no luck. Below |
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> is what I have. |
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I don't know how to use NetworkManager, so I can't help here, I use |
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wpa_supplicant. |
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> rican-linux@ibookG4-gentoo ~ $ sudo zcat /proc/config.gz | grep WEXT |
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> Password: |
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> CONFIG_WEXT_CORE=y |
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> CONFIG_WEXT_PROC=y |
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> CONFIG_WEXT_SPY=y |
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> CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV=y |
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> CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT=y |
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This will let you use iwconfig and friends, and I think this is the |
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problem that the forum post tried to solve. It shouldn't change how |
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wpa_supplicant (and others?) support the card, as wpa_supplicant at |
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least defaults to the wireless driver interface that b43 uses. |
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> ibookG4-gentoo ~ # ifconfig |
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> enP2p32s15f0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 |
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> inet 192.168.1.133 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 |
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> ether 00:14:51:38:fa:f8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) |
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> RX packets 1370 bytes 100431 (98.0 KiB) |
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> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
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> TX packets 232 bytes 42740 (41.7 KiB) |
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> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
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> lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 |
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> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 |
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> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) |
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> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
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> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
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> TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
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> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
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> wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 |
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> ether 00:14:51:e4:55:af txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) |
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> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
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> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 |
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> TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) |
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> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
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I can't provide a minimal wpa_supplicant example right now (perhaps |
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later), and I do not know anything about NetworkManager. |
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Try: |
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"iwlist wlan0 scan" |
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And see if it shows up the wireless networks around you. |
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It is a good idea to use a pager if you have more than one, two wireless |
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APs available: |
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"iwlist wlan0 scan | less" |
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Nuno Silva |
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Helsinki, Finland |
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