wifi issue

[rmoessMember]

Hello, GeeXboX is really cool. Thanks for a tasteful good looking, and so far good distribution.
I have a problem with my wifi device, which is not detected. I am booting from a USB stick the x64 version on a HP Pavillion dv 6000 series (dv6780 SE). the wifi is the Intel 4965AGN, which uses the iwlwifi on other distros, in which the wifi is automatically detected and loaded usually. GeeXboX does not seem to detect and/or load the firmware or module for the iwlwifi, which is evident by the wireless LED that turns blue when wifi is working properly, whether used or not. I went through the network setup by following the instruction in the docs, using nano as root on term 2 (ctr+alt+f2) though I do not think the problem is caused by incorrect settings in the network file, since the iwlwifi is not even loaded. Do I need to modify some other settings or enable the loading of the module/firmware, or even add a file by downloading and installing something? I have not tested the eth0 yet since I do not have access to a LAN ethernet connection. Your help would be appreciated. Thank you. Roland.

[tomlohaveMember]

you need extra-firmwares-nonfree, this is a quick fix
do the following :
add extra-firmwares-nonfree at the root of your usb stick located here :
http://download.geexbox.org/releases/extra-firmwares-nonfree_2.0-1_x86_64.opk
boot on geexbox
switch to vt2
cd /.root
opkg install extra-firmwares-nonfree_2.0-1_x86_64.opk
if no error, reboot
Tell us if it works

[rmoessMember]

Thank you, that took care of the problem. I will play with this distro some more this coming week end. So far I really like it.

[tomlohaveMember]

Nice to hear

[elmusilocoMember]

I am having the same issue on a HP 311. This is a 32 bits cpu. I tried the package you posted but I only got errors. I guess it is only for 64 bits ones.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

[tomlohaveMember]

i have uploaded more files for wifi
Please, habe a look at http://download.geexbox.org/releases/extra/i386/
and install what you need.
Remember that you need a persistent data file

[elmusilocoMember]

Thanks for your quick response but it did not work for me.
I installed all packages in that folder (except the nvidia one) with no errors (installing, configuring).
Also the casper file gets updated (the date / time changes).
But when I restart and I go to Weather, for instance, I get a message “Internet connection required”.

If you can think of something else please let me know.
Thanks again.

[tomlohaveMember]

did you configure your wifi device ?
See Documentation for this

[psokolMember]

The same issue here. I have Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller. I installed all extra packages but wifi interface is not visible using ifconfig.
This works perfectly and out of box with Ubuntu, so I think it can’t be such problem to make it work.

Please help!

[tomlohaveMember]

hi, you need b43-firmware
I will try to build it and upload it tomorrow

[tomlohaveMember]

Uploaded …
Please test and report

[psokolMember]

Really big thanks for your help! Unfortunately installing package didn’t help.

Installation log – no errors:

opkg install b43-firmware_5.10.56.27.3-1_i686.opk
Installing b43-firmware (5.10.56.27.3-1) to root...
Configuring b43-firmware.

Using ifconfig gives:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E8:11:32:06:FA:77
UP BROADCAST 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19

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:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6008 (5.8 KiB) TX bytes:6008 (5.8 KiB)

The same under Ubuntu with 2.6.38 kernel:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e8:11:32:06:fa:77
UP BROADCAST 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:19

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:b1:8f:32:48
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:b1ff:fe8f:3248/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1832 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:22
TX packets:1923 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:384419 (384.4 KB) TX bytes:240763 (240.7 KB)
Interrupt:16

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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB) TX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB)

eth1 is wifi interface.

Entering

modprobe -l | grep "b43"

gives

kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko

And info about my WLAN controller:

lspci -nn | grep "Network"
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by psokol.

[tomlohaveMember]

modprobe b43 ?

[psokolMember]

Didn’t help.

[tomlohaveMember]

what dmesg says with :
modprobe -r b43
modprobe b43

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