Issue with Atheros wireless on Acer Aspire One?

[Onyarian]

I have made a madwifi-hal.tcem and works perfectly

load madwifi-hal.tcem
load wireless.tcem
load wireless_tools.tcel
(I have made a .dep file too)

in bootlocal.sh:
modprobe ath_pci
/opt/ath0.sh &

and then:
sudo ifconfig ath0 up
sudo iwconfig ath0 essid "your essid"

Thats all.

I will send it now to tc

[florian]

I have tired yesterday to set up wifi on my Eee PC 701. I used ndiswrapper as was explained in this thread and got it working after a short while

It works well however I have one process (in top, I see it's name as [ntos_wq]) that sometimes takes a big amount of my cpu. (@roberts, you didn't noticed that on your Eee900?)

Thus I am looking forward to try the ath5k driver with the madwifi-hal.tcem extension prepared by Onyarian.

[roberts]

Maybe it is a Celeron thing. With my  900A atom ndiswrapper is solid and stable. No runaways.
But thanks to the community we now have a native module extension to try.
Looking forward to your feedback using the native module extension.

[florian]

Yes, the madwifi-hal.tcem extension works well for the wifi card on the EeePC 701
Thank you! I'll use it now instead of ndiswrapper.

[rayburn]

I also have an EeePC 701, and would be interested in trying this distro, any feedback on how fast the boot time is on this model?

Thanks.

[florian]

I also have an EeePC 701, and would be interested in trying this distro, any feedback on how fast the boot time is on this model?

Well it actually depends from where you load TC (sd card, main flash drive) and of your bootcodes (restoring backups and extension or not ...), but in any case, yes TC boots quite fast on the Eee PC.

But not as fast as the default Xandros however! One of the reasons why default OS boots faster is that traditional init is replaced by a simplified and faster proprietary closed-source program called fastinit.

But, do try tc on the Eee, it's fun! It required me to do a bit of config, but it's a lot of fun.

[svensko]

EeePCs can recognize SD cards? My 16 GB SDHC is no where to be found on my acer.  :'(

Either way, thanks a ton for the madwifi extension!!

[svensko]

I also have an EeePC 701, and would be interested in trying this distro, any feedback on how fast the boot time is on this model?

Thanks.

The more extensions you add the longer the boot. My issue isn't the boot (which is under 30 seconds) but the shut up as my current back-up time is in the range of 3-4 minutes.

Still worth a try though, I'm loving it a ton. The idea of a pristine install every time I load up my computer makes me go  in the pants!

[curaga]

Init is only a small part; it usually only runs some scripts. Asus' fastinit has most of the bootscript embedded in it, and executing C is known to be faster than executing bash.

This could be done here as well, but doing so would lose the flexibility and editability of the script. Race to the bottom

[roberts]

EeePCs can recognize SD cards? My 16 GB SDHC is no where to be found on my acer.  :'(

Either way, thanks a ton for the madwifi extension!!

Yes, eeePC 900A easily recognized my SD card.

[roberts]

I also have an EeePC 701, and would be interested in trying this distro, any feedback on how fast the boot time is on this model?

Thanks.

The more extensions you add the longer the boot. My issue isn't the boot (which is under 30 seconds) but the shut up as my current back-up time is in the range of 3-4 minutes.

Still worth a try though, I'm loving it a ton. The idea of a pristine install every time I load up my computer makes me go  in the pants!

There are many options to control both boot up times and shutdown.
Unless you need every extension every boot in your tce directory,  you should consider moving many extensions to the optional/ directory. This directory is under your tce directory. That results in a speedier boot up. Yet when needed, you use appbrowser  File->Install Optional

To speed up shutdown, do not place system files in your .filetool.lst, instead make small personal tarball with an ext name of tce, e.g., myconfig.tce   Place them in the tce directory. Remember factor out static content from dynamic. Also check that you are not backing up browser cache files, etc, those should be added to your .xfiletool.lst

[rayburn]

Many thanks for the replies, I shall be trying it out! I currently have EeeOS on an SD card, and that boots up in around 45secs, that is fine, but as that OS is no longer being developed, I am looking for something else that is 'mean and lean'.

I have recently been trying to build a minimal Debian install that will also run entirely from RAM as detailed in this thread on the Debian forums:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=29774

So far I have been unable to build it properly, probably because my Linux skills are not very good (yet)!

[Atheist]

After messing with several different *.inf files and having only one that would recognize the card(but not connect to any network), I gave up and tried the madwifi route. I remember installing drivers on ubuntu when I first got the laptop so I thought I'd try that. After compiling everything, I finally have wireless!!! 

Directions:

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wget http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
install compiletc.tce and linux-headers-2.6.26.tce
tar -xzf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6*/
make
sudo make install
modprobe ath_pci
Hope this helps any fellow Acer Aspire One owners. 

I also have an acer aspire one, and when I get to the make step here I get and error saying /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-tinycore/build/.config does not exists. Any idea what I need to do here?

[Onyarian]

I can tell you my settings in my AAO, it works OK and always I make so the conection.

TC2.11

My Acer is an AOA-110 without hard drive, it brings only a 8Gb SSD card. I mention this because I imagine that the wifi hardware is the same.

1st - TC will not turn on the indicator light when connected to wifi, so you should check that you are connected, once you are sure it is best not to touch it more. (You can check before you start with your original operating system, in my case was linpus)

2nd - you have to load the extensions:
wireless-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcz
wireless-tools.tcz
if you want an easy connection tool extension : wifi-radar.tcz or wicd.tcz
and if you use encryption to wpa: wpa_supplicant.tcz

3rd - I make two types of connections, using different methods according where I am. In the case to connect at home, the connection is IP-specific, hidden and wep encryption, so I created a script for connecting straight away.
In the case out of home, with a free wifi, I do it with wifi-radar

4th- At home: open Control Panel and go to Network button, put wlan0 as interface. If you don't use specific IP then in DHCP yes, Save Configuration yes, press Apply and Exit . It will have created a wlan0.sh file in the /opt folder. In order not to lose the settings the next time you start add opt/wlan0.sh line to /opt/.filetool.lst.
If you use specific IP mark no DCHP , filled the other fields, Save Configuration yes, press Apply and Exit. Also add a line opt/wlan0.sh to /opt/.filetool.lst

4thA-Create in /opt a file with the name wconection.sh with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
sudo /opt/wlan0.sh
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "nameofyourconection"
sudo iwconfig wlan0 key yourencriptionkey

mark it as executable and add it to/opt/.filetool.lst. Instead of using wep encryption you use wpa encryption change the last line.

4thB-With the above, every time you turn the computer on, open a terminal window and type:
tc@box:~$/opt/wconection.sh
and you will have established the connection. Open the browser and navigate.
If you will check it:

tc@box:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          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:28 Base address:0xa000

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:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6297 (6.1 KiB)  TX bytes:6297 (6.1 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY
          inet addr:192.168.1.22  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1825 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1043370 (1018.9 KiB)  TX bytes:347831 (339.6 KiB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)

or:

tc@box:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

dummy0    no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"nameofyourconection"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:VV:VV:VV:VV:VV   
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=54/100  Signal level:-81 dBm  Noise level=-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

5 º - Out of home, without encryption, using wifi-radar.tcz
When running wifi-radar it will detect in the window all wifis nearby, with no lock is free, so simply select it and connect. If you choose one with a lock you have to specify the encryption key and then connect.
At home with wifi-radar I have to specify all the parameters of connection with IP's, passwords and other, having to do it every time I want to connect, so it is easier to implement the above method with a script.
Hope you get the connection. If you have problems you should start looking at dmesg to see if it correctly detects the wifi. (And make sure it is connected but the light does not turn on).

[Atheist]

Thanks for your detailed reply.

When I run wconection.sh I get this output:

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Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, forking to background
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "MyPassword".
output from iwconfig is:

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lo        no wireless extensions.

dummy0    no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"Ryans Network"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated  
          Tx-Power=27 dBm  
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B  
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wlan0 looks like it is up and has the right ESSID but I still have no connection. Also with wifi radar nothing seems to comeup.