Hi,
I have just installed VL 7 on an old IBM T21. I have tried two USB wifi dongles without any success connecting to my home WEP network.
Through vasm, I have had some luck. At different times I have been able to see networks in range. Vasm didn't actually seem to save my config - the encryption or ESSID. It did create a file in /etc/wireless fo rthe network that I would try to connect to - however it was zero bytes. If I copied the blankessid to it and set the encryption key in there it still did not work.
I tried the how-to post at the top of the list - interesting that refers to /etc/modprode.conf - but that doens't exist. Instead there is an /etc/modprobe.d directory with a network.conf but that only contained eth0 (which I'm using now).
I've pasted some of the output from the terminal - hopefully that will shed some light. I appreciate any help. VL runs pretty well otherwise on this old machine and xfce4 looks pretty impressive as well.
Thanks.
root:# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
Interestingly when I ran vasm to start the eth0 network it referred to /etc/modprobe.conf ...
root:# vasm
$DCMD --backtitle "$BACKTITLE" --title "$TITLE" --menu "$TEXT" $DIMENSION \
inet1 "DEVICE=eth0, DHCP" \
inetd "DEVICE=, DHCP" \
2> $freply
Starting network eth0 using a DHCP server...
dhcpcd[3715]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: using hwaddr 00:01:03:85:34:03
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason CARRIER
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x3bb758af), next in 3.92 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: offered 10.192.168.145 from 10.192.168.1
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: sending REQUEST (xid 0x3bb758af), next in 4.12 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: acknowledged 10.192.168.145 from 10.192.168.1
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: checking for 10.192.168.145
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: sending ARP probe (1 of 3), next in 1.51 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: sending ARP probe (2 of 3), next in 1.09 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: sending ARP probe (3 of 3), next in 2.00 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: leased 10.192.168.145 for 604800 seconds
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: adding IP address 10.192.168.145/24
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: adding route to 10.192.168.0/24
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: adding default route via 10.192.168.1
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: writing lease `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease'
dhcpcd[3715]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason BOUND
dhcpcd[3715]: forking to background
dhcpcd[3715]: forked to background, child pid 3737
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:85:34:03
inet addr:10.192.168.145 Bcast:10.192.168.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25909 (25.3 Kb) TX bytes:1560 (1.5 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4400
grep: /etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
ra0 Ralink STA
Reading another post, I also tried vwifi (which looked very similar)
root:# vwifi
cat: /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf': No such file or directory
ra0
/sbin/vwifi: line 80: /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf.tmp: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf.tmp': No such file or directory
ra0
cat: /etc/interface: No such file or directory
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
dhcpcd[4026]: dhcpcd not running
dhcpcd[4027]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[4027]: ra0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[4027]: timed out
dhcpcd[4051]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[4051]: ra0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[4051]: timed out
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:03:85:34:03
inet addr:10.192.168.145 Bcast:10.192.168.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3039 errors:0 dropped:8 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1716 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3480010 (3.3 Mb) TX bytes:212884 (207.8 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4400
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:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13020 (12.7 Kb) TX bytes:13020 (12.7 Kb)
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:00:FC:E7
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:110394 (107.8 Kb) TX bytes:20900 (20.4 Kb)
root:# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"11n-AP" Nickname:"RT2870STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
