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Need help installing linksys wireless laptop card
  • cmoneycmoney September 2010
    lspci shows:
    Ethernet controller: linksys, a division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)

    I realized I needed to find windows drivers, so I downloaded them, then I spent forever trying to get tazndis installed. I assume its installed correctly because there is now an option under system tools that says "Manage Windows Drivers"

    I opened that up found the driver and clicked install. It now says "neti2220 driver installed: device(17FE:2220) present" at the bottom it says "Ndiswrapper kernel module (unloaded)" I am not sure if this is important

    Now being all excited that my driver seems to be installed I went into the wireless settings but it still isnt picking up any networks.

    I was reading around and I noticed the results of the command ifconfig -a are often requested.
    I put this in and the only connections I have are dummy0 and lo. there is no wlan0

    what is going on here?
  • mojomojo September 2010
    Verify you have all depends for tazndis installed:
    perl-core.tazpkg
    ndiswrapper-driver.tazpkg
    wireless_tools.tazpkg

    There is a Load button for ndiswrapper kernel module. Click lsmod button,see if ndiswrapper is listed.

    I can't get ndiswrapper to work on slitaz 3.0 , radio associates but no tcp/ip
    slitaz 2.0 which has tazndis pre-installed on the standard full iso works great.
  • cmoneycmoney September 2010
    I have all of these packages installed im not sure where the load button your talking about is, when i type lsmod in terminal it doesnt show ndiswrapper though. Im gonna see how slitaz 2.0 works in the mean time
  • mojomojo September 2010
    One issue to immediately address when using slitaz-2.0 is the tazpkg download mirror address has changed.
    root@slitaz: nano /var/lib/tazpkg/mirror

    Change: http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/slitaz-2.0/
    To: http://mirror.slitaz.org/packages/2.0/
    Remove all entrys below this,save and recharge twice

    lsmod indicates ndiswrapper isn't loaded
    Location of Ndiswrapper Load button.
    Open xterm
    tux@slitaz: subox tazndisbox

    Ndiswrapper Kernel module (unloaded) ->Load button
  • cmoneycmoney September 2010
    ok so i switched to 2.0 and sure enough tazndis installed the driver and loaded the module. when i typed lsmod in xterm it showed ndiswrapper in the list. however it still isnt showing any wireless networks, i even sat the laptop right next to the router to see if it just wasnt picking up the signal. the network is completely unsecured also. I noticed in the connections manager that the only connection was the loop back, there is no wlan0 listed. idk if this is normal or not
  • mojomojo September 2010
    Without wlan0 the wireless adapter is unrecognized and dead to the kernel. I would try another windows driver, google for other linux users experience with your adapter.

    Here are some xterm commands to try,with output from my working system:
    tux@slitaz:~$ ifconfig
    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:6820 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:6820 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:762646 (744.7 KiB) TX bytes:762646 (744.7 KiB)

    wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:49:54:2A:B5
    inet addr:192.168.123.3 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:335134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:239268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:477550528 (455.4 MiB) TX bytes:19486370 (18.5 MiB)
    Interrupt:10 Memory:f4008000-f400a000

    View and configure wireless adapter,see associated AP mac address
    tux@slitaz:~$ iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    dummy0 no wireless extensions.

    wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"mojo"
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:13:49:2A:A6:5E
    Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
    RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:45/100 Signal level:-67 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


    View wireless access points
    tux@slitaz:~$ iwlist wlan0 scan
    wlan0 Scan completed :
    Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:49:2A:A6:5E
    ESSID:"mojo"
    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
    Mode:Managed
    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
    Quality:46/100 Signal level:-66 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
    Encryption key:on
    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
    9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
    48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
    Extra:bcn_int=100
    Extra:atim=0
    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
    Group Cipher : CCMP
    Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
    Authentication Suites (1) : PSK


  • cmoneycmoney September 2010
    I tried a different set of drivers and still no dice, how can I tell that I'm getting the right ones?
  • cmoneycmoney September 2010
    well nvm I restarted the computer to try putting a 3rd set on there and now its magically working :) Thanks a bunch

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