Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Saturday 06 November 2010 01:33:16 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: (still working on installing a new kernel from testing) Was there a problem with Backports? That is the simplest way of getting something newer for Lenny. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012171900.27717.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Friday 05 November 2010 01:27:45 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). ¡ Any ideas? Have you tried installing a more recent kernel form backports? If not, that would be worth a try. Lisi If is is relevant, I am using a laptop HP Pavillion dv69211a Notebook, with TL-60 AMD Turion 64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012051113.59441.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Friday 05 November 2010 01:27:45 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). ¡ Any ideas? I missed the beginning of this thread, so this may already have been mentioned, but did you set the wireless interface in wicd's preferences? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101205162256.ga11...@aurora.owens.net
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com writes: ssid=ESSID!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC -//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd; busconfig policy user=root allow own=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ allow send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ allow send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ /policy policy group=netdev allow send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ allow send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ /policy policy context=default deny own=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ deny send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ deny send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/ /policy /busconfig ?kjetil psk=PASSPHRASE } Are you sure this is the right format for wpa_supplicant.conf? My ubuntu live sytem has in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.confThis: Ubuntu is probably using a different version. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqufapol@alamut.ozu.edu.tr
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com writes: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:137b] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 Memory at f600 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: access denied Kernel driver in use: ath5k Kernel modules: ath5k It appears like you'll need to install a more recent ath5k driver. See here[1]. Regards. [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762w9bjf6@alamut.ozu.edu.tr
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
see below.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:08, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com wrote:
Hi,
wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant
commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot
the problem. Here it goes:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
Now, you should be able to see the available list accessible APs:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
If everything is ok so far, proceed to next.
# iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID
Than create an entry in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
file. Take mine as an example:
# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
...
network={
ssid=ESSID!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd;
busconfig
policy user=root
allow own=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
allow send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
allow send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
/policy
policy group=netdev
allow send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
allow send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
/policy
policy context=default
deny own=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
deny send_destination=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
deny send_interface=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant/
/policy
/busconfig
?kjetil
psk=PASSPHRASE
}
Are you sure this is the right format for wpa_supplicant.conf? My
ubuntu live sytem has in
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.confThis:
Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest:
# wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress,
maybe we can help you further.
Regards.
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Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com writes: : ifconfig wlan0 up succeeds, do not print anything. : iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results. There is a problem at this point. It should have been listing available APs in your range. I can think of two reasons: - Some notebook models (e.g. Lenovo 3000 series) have a wireless switch on their outer surface. You need to turn this on to be able make wireless network card tx/rx radio packages. - You still couldn't manage to install the card drivers properly. [Continue reading...] On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com writes: 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01) I think there is a problem here. Would you mind checking this by sending us lspci -vnn and dmesg messages produced by Ubuntu GNU/Linux Live? (Please do not wrap lines in the outputs while sending the message.) 168c:001c appears[1] to be supported by ath5k, but I wonder what trick we are missing that Ubuntu successfully does. Regards. [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#supported_chips -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87eiayspii@alamut.ozu.edu.tr
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Jo, 04 nov 10, 22:27:45, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). My cristal ball says you are missing some firmware package specific to your wireless card or you need a newer kernel. Please post the output of 'lspci -nn' and 'dmesg | grep -i firmware' on the Lenny system. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
From: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.co. Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:27:45 -0300 ... wicd does not recognize the wireless network Do you have a twisted pair adapter for the machine? PCMCIA or USB. Might help to get a wired connection working first. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. 7785886232 is gone. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive; installation of NetBSD on new drives pending. Personal pages, http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171056677.31829.30...@cantor.invalid
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
see below. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:07, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 04 nov 10, 22:27:45, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). My cristal ball says you are missing some firmware package specific to your wireless card or you need a newer kernel. Please post the output of 'lspci -nn' and 'dmesg | grep -i firmware' on the Lenny system. output of lspci -nn : 00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller [10de:0547] (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge [10de:0548] (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus [10de:0542] (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller [10de:0541] (rev a2) 00:01.3 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Co-processor [10de:0543] (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:055e] (rev a2) 00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:055f] (rev a2) 00:04.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:055e] (rev a2) 00:04.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:055f] (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller [10de:0560] (rev a1) 00:07.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio [10de:055c] (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge [10de:0561] (rev a2) 00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller [10de:0550] (rev a2) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet [10de:054c] (rev a2) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0563] (rev a2) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge [10de:0563] (rev a2) 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M [10de:0531] (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100] 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101] 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102] 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] 02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05) 02:05.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22) 02:05.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 12) 02:05.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12) 02:05.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev ff) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01) output od dmesg º grep -i `firmware` is nothing --- blank. I give the total (large) output of dmesg at the ver end of this message. Kjetil Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJM0+V+AAoJEHNWs3jeoi3phWIIALgfrrwshnPUPcVUMWIrlhrb tTO2pZzGeTgWByMYQ3TfbMI7mF9mJwAaK0IQv5vrjz0rjQ8lJneQKoPWk+g302aQ SnXV+ZP/46aSEl6ZjjrqRAmUfWUeniPbFYanUxUg31tMh1qfODtqkS1Daei8ZPmm DhOvEogWh4tiH/kgSxnasqaR0T47GH0qHRdCq0pIuxTutV2MrXcvGlcHTAYQta+X asqp9LIc0LbMlg2evCC6tCUZ707WsxzQa0zy1nbiqvUOuA/W80zMeHkpyU6/Km/3 LlhSZFGHU1lT3znySgvbtYcYvfuRvMAV+HPXiEb3xJD+Bbq230xl817DPS2enTA= =1kjw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell (1984) [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-25lenny1) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 15:56:38 UTC 2010 [0.00] Command line: root=UUID=7c58dea8-7e9f-4885-bc54-317fec47f06b ro quiet [0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009e000 (usable) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009e000 - 000a (reserved) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 000d2000 - 0010 (reserved) [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7bf5
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 15:12:28, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: see below. 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01) [8.953484] ath5k_pci :03:00.0: registered as 'phy0' [8.958255] ath5k phy0: Support for RF2425 is under development. [8.996575] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' ... [9.277825] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) Nothing unusual here [ 220.783933] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready But it doesn't associate. I assume you double-checked your configuration, especially the passphrase, or switch your AP temporarily to allow connections without encryption. You could also try a newer kernel from backports. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
Hi,
wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant
commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot
the problem. Here it goes:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
Now, you should be able to see the available list accessible APs:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
If everything is ok so far, proceed to next.
# iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID
Than create an entry in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
file. Take mine as an example:
# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
...
network={
ssid=ESSID
psk=PASSPHRASE
}
Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest:
# wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress,
maybe we can help you further.
Regards.
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Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com writes: Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest: # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress, maybe we can help you further. And of course after you see completed in the wpa_supplicant output, then just issue a # dhclient wlan0 to get an IP address from the AP. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxpnrb8v@alamut.ozu.edu.tr
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:27:45PM -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). ¡ Any ideas? If you haven't already, you need to set the wireless interface device in wicd's preferences. To find out what device name to use, run /sbin/iwconfig and look for eth1 or wlan0 or something similar. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101105203238.ge10...@aurora.owens.net
Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
see below.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:08, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com wrote:
Hi,
wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant
commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot
the problem. Here it goes:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
Now, you should be able to see the available list accessible APs:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
If everything is ok so far, proceed to next.
# iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID
Than create an entry in your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
file. Take mine as an example:
# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
...
network={
ssid=ESSID
psk=PASSPHRASE
}
Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest:
# wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress,
maybe we can help you further.
I tried this, here is how long I got:
: ifconfig wlan0 up
succeeds, do not print anything.
: iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results.
: iwconfig wlan0 essis
do not print anything
:
: Now I wrote the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, as follows:
(I have problems with the keyboard on this live CD, I cannot
write braces, so instead i write the words leftbrace rightbrace)
network= leftbrace
ssid =
psk =
rightbrace
(my wireless network do not use encryption)
: wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
which prints:
kjetil:/home/kjetil# wpa_supplicant -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default'
ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' -
'/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Line 1: Invalid configuration line 'network = {'.
Line 2: Invalid configuration line 'ssid = '.
Line 3: Invalid configuration line 'psk = '.
Line 4: Invalid configuration line '}'.
Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
Failed to add interface wlan0
Cancelling scan request
Cancelling authentication timeout
---
Thats as far as I got.
Kjetil (still working on installing a new kernel from testing)
Regards.
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Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny
I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse but wicd does not recognize the wireless network (which is there, I am sending this via it, from a live cd of ubuntu). ¡ Any ideas? If is is relevant, I am using a laptop HP Pavillion dv69211a Notebook, with TL-60 AMD Turion 64. Kjetil -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik+8sgq8bm5ndx3nmt4-uc+y2dycf0he5ncx...@mail.gmail.com
