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« on: December 18, 2010, 09:37:26 pm » |
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I took a HP laptop with bad hard drive, installed new hard drive & loaded Vector Linux 6.0 Standard. The system will located my wireless but I can't get it to hook up to it. Have internet no problem when hard wired. I find the wireless, enter the password but it either searches for ever - no hook up or just flashes & no hook up. I have tried every wep password, 1/2 password, no luck. Can someone give me an idea what it happening?
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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2010, 11:37:14 pm » |
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What is the make model and version number of your
wireless card?
Are you using encryption for your router?
If so have you tried a connection without encryption
to see if the card is working?
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Siggy
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2010, 09:54:31 am » |
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Can you help on how I find the make model of the wireless card, I am new to VL, In windows xp I can find it but can't seem to find the area in VL that shows my hardware. I have not tried taking the incriprion out of the wireless router. The wireless card does find the router's name when I search for wireless in the area. I do appreciate the assistance
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 10:19:28 am » |
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The output from these commands would be useful. Generally these are entered in a terminal/shell, and you may need to be root (administrator) for many of the commands:
ifconfig -a
iwconfig
lspci
lsusb
lsmod
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Siggy
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2010, 03:05:09 pm » |
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so I go to a terminal, it will not recognize any of those commands. So logged into VASMCC as administrator, brought up terminal, still none of the commands were recognized. It is also funny, I type the commands, see nothing being typed until hit enter, then they show up -
Vector:/~
siggy:$ ifconfig-a
bash: ifconfig-a: command not found
Vector:/~
siggy:$ ifconfig -a
bash: ifconfig: command not found
Vector:/~
siggy:$ Ispci
bash: Ispci: command not found
Vector:/~
siggy:$ iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found
Vector:/~
siggy:$ Isusb
bash: Isusb: command not found
Vector:/~
siggy:$ Ismod
bash: Ismod: command not found
Vector:/~
cant get the $ to go away either.
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2010, 03:41:34 pm » |
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ok, so finally got to this with 1smod
siggy:$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfkill_input 5376 0
snd_seq_dummy 3716 0
snd_seq_oss 31872 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6912 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48368 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7436 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37408 0
snd_mixer_oss 15104 1 snd_pcm_oss
p4_clockmod 4900 1
speedstep_lib 4740 1 p4_clockmod
freq_table 4352 1 p4_clockmod
arc4 2688 2
ecb 3584 2
crypto_blkcipher 16516 1 ecb
cryptomgr 3712 0
b43 116764 0
rfkill 8984 3 rfkill_input,b43
mac80211 155548 1 b43
cfg80211 23688 1 mac80211
led_class 4484 1 b43
input_polldev 4232 1 b43
rtc_cmos 10144 0
snd_atiixp 16524 2
rtc_core 15132 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 3328 1 rtc_core
8139too 23936 0
snd_ac97_codec 99492 1 snd_atiixp
ssb 29956 1 b43
mii 5376 1 8139too
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 67972 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19976 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 51492 14 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7008 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8840 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
serio_raw 6020 0
i2c_piix4 8592 0
i2c_core 21268 1 i2c_piix4
parport_pc 35908 0
parport 31724 1 parport_pc
video 17040 0
output 3456 1 video
wmi 6568 0
shpchp 29716 0
pci_hotplug 27040 1 shpchp
ati_agp 7564 1
joydev 10048 0
evdev 1014
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2010, 04:10:14 pm » |
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Looks like you have a broadcom chipset wireless device as indicated by the 'b43' module being loaded, however this does not guarantee anything. We will still the output from the previously mentioned commands. Try this:
-Open a terminal
-type 'su'
-hit ENTER
-enter your root/administrator password when prompted
-then enter the commands I mentioned earlier and post the output here
Let us know if you continue to have troubles.
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2010, 04:21:01 pm » |
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Before you run the commands in a terminal, do
su
Then type in your root password.
The prompt should now indicate you are running as root, like this:
root:#
Now type each command and report the results. When you're finished, type
exit
at the prompt to return to being user.
You have to run ifconfig and iwconfig as root. DON'T log in as root. Simply do su and your root password to become root and exit back to user as soon as you finish your root business.
You can run lsmod as user. You can run the other two as user like this:
/sbin/lspci
/sbin/lsusb
The commands won't be found if you omit /sbin before the commands. I suggested running them all as root because they will all work just by typing the name.
If I understand what you did with VASMCC, I think you may be confused. Running VASMCC as superuser does not give you root privileges for anything else. It's just for running VASMCC. When you open a terminal, you will be opening it as user. Do the su thing above and work as root for the commands you run in the terminal until you exit back to user or close the terminal.
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Siggy
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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2010, 04:31:00 pm » |
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I found your posted How to Recipes. that is where I go to the above. But can't get it to do any of the other commands. Went to VASM to try to get to hardware but when VASM comes up it only gives : PASSWD Change password, XWMSET setup default manager, SKEL reset default settings, SUPER run super VSAM (root password needed) EXIT bye, see you later. Nothing as a menu to Hardware --to get to HWCONF. Also the password though checked to save never does. So may be showing my No knowlege of what is going on, but figure that is the only way I am going to learn.
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Siggy
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2010, 04:39:46 pm » |
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So I can't get my root password to work. IS there a way to change it?
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Siggy
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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2010, 04:46:00 pm » |
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finally it took the root password.will post shortly
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Siggy
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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2010, 04:47:26 pm » |
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Vector://home/siggy
root:# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:b0:40:00:e3
inet addr:192.168.2.103 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1786282 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:1183837 (1.1 MiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 B) TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4b:99:f6:b3
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-90-4B-99-F6-B3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:
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Siggy
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« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2010, 04:48:29 pm » |
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Vector://home/siggy
root:# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"FRONTIER"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:5AAB-7F5D-A2 Security mode:open
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
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Siggy
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« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2010, 04:49:29 pm » |
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Vector://home/siggy
root:# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SMBus (rev 16)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP200 3COM 3C920B Ethernet Controller
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP]
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
02:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
Vector://home/siggy
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« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2010, 04:50:20 pm » |
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Vector://home/siggy
root:# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046e:556e Behavior Tech. Computer Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Vector://home/siggy
root:#
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