Dell mini 9 wireless help

[straykat]

Sure enough I ran out of space with Slitaz 300mb.  I thought I would give TC another try with a fresh install.  Sure enough I still can not get wireless working using any method under TC.  I don't want to give up on this as TC is exactly what I want except for wireless not working! 

[straykat]

 Duh, moment!  I got it working after installing wicd, starting it and running it.  I never did get it to connect issuing those commands, but it works fine using wicd.  I was trying to run wicd from the command line and never knew to click the wicd manager app!   

[Juanito]

Out of interest, which driver (b43, wl, ndiswrapper) is wicd using?

[straykat]

wl works, I blacklisted ssb and b43.  I have to do a sudo wicd-start after boot, then run wicd from applications menu.

[straykat]

I would like to be able to auto-connect to open waps at start-up.  or at least my open wap.  I have tried adding stuff to the bootlocal.sh like the wicd-start but I have not had any luck getting anything to work from bootlocal.sh.  sooo I've got some more reading to do about bootlocal.  Anyway thanks again.

[roberts]

If you answer the question from Juanito

Out of interest, which driver (b43, wl, ndiswrapper) is wicd using?

then it would be easier to know the commands needed for bootlocal.sh

[straykat]

wl works, I blacklisted ssb and b43.  I have to do a sudo wicd-start after boot, then run wicd from applications menu.

WL

[straykat]

I added wicd-start to the bootlocal.sh and that works just fine now.  I wonder why the 'automatically connect to this network' checkbox in wicd does not work.  I would like it to auto connect.

[marttt]

Digging up an old thread, just in case somebody else happens to get this machine (fanless + shipped with SSD) for free like just I did.

I had to mess with b43 wifi for several days, facing all the "rfkill turned hardware button off" etc errors.
But, apparently this is a BIOS issue: a simple "Load Setup Defaults" in the BIOS got wifi working for me.
Inspiration: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177742

dmesg says

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Direct firmware load ffor b43(/lp0bsinitvals15.fw failed with error -2;
Falling back to user helper;
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'So there still seem to be issues loading the driver.

Still, now with BIOS ver A05 + kernel 4.14 + firmware-b43.tcz + wireless-KERNEL.tcz + wifi.sh + nothing blacklisted in extlinux.conf wifi finally works.

EDIT: The wireless switch (Fn + 2) doesn't seem to work in MicroCore, though.

    [EDIT]: Added code tags.  Rich