On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>> On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote:
>>> I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then
>>> rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface:
>>>
>>> wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>
>>> ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
>>> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>>> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
>>> TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
>>> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>>>
>>> My yes-or-no question: does the appearance of "wlan0" imply that
>>> my new kernel drivers are the right ones for this particular D-Link
>>> WiFi adapter?
>>
>> It's certainly a great sign, but it may or may not be enough. I'm by no
>> means an expert, but I believe I have to install some extra firmware
>> (b43-firmware) to use on my laptop as it's not in the kernel (unless I'm
>> clueless with kernel config). Without b43-firmware, the interface shows
>> up and is recognized, but can't be used iirc.
>
> In my experience, when it shows in "ifconfig", it is loaded.
> You might want to check the "dmesg" output to see if it is missing firmware
> somewhere.
> Did you try "dhcpcd wlan0" to see if it gets an IP-address?
That doesn't work (yet). An error message said that /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
was missing, so I copied this example from a man page:
#cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
network={
ssid="myhomewireless"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mypsk"
}
#dhcpcd wlan0
dhcpcd[1415]: version 6.4.7 starting
dhcpcd[1415]: wlan0: adding address fe80::f45c:642e:a392:f47c
dhcpcd[1415]: if_addaddress6: Permission denied
dhcpcd[1423]: wlan0: starting wpa_supplicant
dhcpcd[1415]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[1415]: timed out
dhcpcd[1415]: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
dhcpcd[1415]: timed out
dhcpcd[1415]: exited
NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the
network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager
panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh.
So, the hardware works but I need to configure the network properly.
Anyone have an idea how I can get the connection working automatically
during boot?
Thanks.
BTW, this is ifconfig after NetworkManager brings wlan0 up:
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.75 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::baa3:86ff:fe99:a8d8 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
inet6 2602:306:c4d4:cf40:baa3:86ff:fe99:a8d8 prefixlen 128 scopeid
0x0<global>
ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 317 bytes 18320 (17.8 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 82 bytes 38743 (37.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
