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Enviado por dujingshan o Mér, 09/04/2013 - 11:46

Strange thing about WLAN card and etc

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Mér, 09/04/2013 - 11:46
dujingshan
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Hi there,

I'm new in Trisquel and today I tried to install Trisquel 4.0 LTS in a legacy Thinkpad laptop.

I used netinstall and things went pretty well that the installer can detect and use my IBM WLAN card out of box. Netinstall finished successfully whereas I found the WLAN card not being detected after rebooting to the newly-installed system.

In other systems including Linux distros, MS Windows, and even the net installer of Trisquel, this wireless card can be detected and used. However I cannot make it work in Trisquel as an installed one.

lspci gives no information about this card, but iwconfig and ifconfig give eth0 as a wireless connection. Now I cannot detect any hotspot or establish a connection manually. So it is a little confusing for me. No idea where the problem lies.

Anyone has idea over this? Thank you a lot!

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Mér, 09/04/2013 - 11:55
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I highly recommend installing the latest version of trisquel, 6.0. It's also LTS and there is no need for 4.0.
I expect your problems will disappear using an up-to-date version.

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Mér, 09/04/2013 - 12:02
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thank you for reply.

the reason I chose 4.0 LTS is that it uses kernel 2.6.32 series. I tried Kernel 3.x before but it always failed to work. I believe the new kernels have dropped support for such old hardware. The machine is soooooo old...... :P

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Mér, 09/04/2013 - 22:41
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In order to help you, the best thing to do is telling us what card you have in order to know if it can work with free software only. You can see h-node.org for this purpose.

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Mér, 09/04/2013 - 23:31
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old? what's the year and model?

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Xov, 09/05/2013 - 02:52
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It is a thinkpad i1300 produced in around 2000.

In windows it is detected as " IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card". I found one on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Lenovo-08K3309-Laptop-Wireless-Network-Card-for-ThinkPad-i1200-i1300-/271250406076

On h-node there is no info about any ibm card. So I suppose it is not supported? But why can the net installer recognize and utilize it? Don't Trisquel system and net installer share the same thing?

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Xov, 09/05/2013 - 04:36
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If there's no information about the card on h-node, it doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't work; it's because no one has added information about it to h-node. H-node has information on both hardware that is and is not free software-compatible.

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Xov, 09/05/2013 - 11:06
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Can you please post the results of the following commands?
lspci
lspci -nn | grep -i net
lspci -k
sudo lshw -C network
lsmod
iwconfig
ifconfig
sudo iwlist scan
uname -r -m
cat /etc/network/interfaces
nm-tool
sudo rfkill list

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Sáb, 09/07/2013 - 11:16
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du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 CardBus Controller (rev 05)
00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ lspci -nn |grep -i net
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1621 (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-ali
Kernel modules: ali-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ALI 5451
Kernel modules: snd-ali5451
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
Kernel modules: alim7101_wdt, alim1535_wdt
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
Kernel driver in use: pata_ali
Kernel modules: pata_ali
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
Kernel driver in use: ali1535_smbus
Kernel modules: alim7101_wdt, i2c-ali15x3, i2c-ali1535
00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6812 CardBus Controller (rev 05)
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)
Kernel modules: tridentfb
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for du:
*-network
description: IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card
product: Version 01.01
vendor: IBM Corporation
physical id: 0
slot: Socket 0
resources: irq:6
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: eth0
serial: 00:02:2d:34:08:7e
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15 firmware=Lucent/Agere 6.14 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
sha256_generic 11191 2
aes_i586 7268 39
aes_generic 26863 1 aes_i586
dm_crypt 11363 1
ppdev 5259 0
snd_ali5451 15799 2
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_ali5451
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70694 3 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26754 0
orinoco_cs 8782 1
orinoco 63098 1 orinoco_cs
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
cfg80211 126752 1 orinoco
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47327 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19130 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia 30784 1 orinoco_cs
snd 54244 14 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
psmouse 63677 0
soundcore 6620 1 snd
i2c_ali15x3 5050 0
yenta_socket 20408 4
serio_raw 3978 0
lp 7060 0
rsrc_nonstatic 10015 1 yenta_socket
i2c_ali1535 4725 0
snd_page_alloc 7076 1 snd_pcm
shpchp 28835 0
pcmcia_core 32964 4 orinoco_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
parport 32635 2 ppdev,lp
dm_raid45 81679 0
xor 15028 1 dm_raid45
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 1999 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
vga16fb 11385 1
ali_agp 3717 1
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
pata_ali 7932 2
agpgart 31724 1 ali_agp
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"g\xC6isQ\xFFJ\xEC)\xCD\xBA\xAB\xF2\xFB\xE3F|\xC2T\xF8\x1B\xE8\xE7\x8DvZ.c3\x9F\xC9\x9A"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: None
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=42/70 Signal level=-47 dBm Noise level=-89 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:1078 Rx invalid frag:14
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2d:34:08:7e
inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe34:87e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:144 (144.0 B)
Interrupt:6 Base address:0x100

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2d:34:08:7e
inet addr:169.254.4.143 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:6 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Device or resource busy

du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ uname -r -m
2.6.32-48-generic i686
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
wireless-mode managed
wireless-essid any
du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: orinoco_cs
State: disconnected
Default: no
HW Address: 00:02:2D:34:08:7E

Capabilities:

Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes

Wireless Access Points

du@dujingshan-IBM:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

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Sáb, 09/07/2013 - 23:34
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The orinoco driver should work for your card... and "is part of any recent Linux kernel". Maybe it is damaged.

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