@combo3 your list of extensions is quite different from that listed in the repository (if that is indeed what the websight is known as). i will download the .tcz files that are on your list too and see if that works better.
Those were all the extensions that downloaded after I did a clean boot (base system, no restore). It appears that the old tree is missing the ncurses related extensions.
wireless_tools.tcx lists wireless-KERNEL.tcz as a dependancy, i was unable to find it in the repository websight nor via google searches.
My bad. When you download wireless-tools via appbrowser, wireless-KERNEL.tcz is automatically replaced with the proper dep file (wireless-2.6.33.33-tinycore.tcz or wireless-2.6.33.33-tinycore64.tcz) depending on which kernel you are running (32 or 64 bit); so you'll need to change it manually.
Open a terminal, go into your tce/optional directory, and enter the following at the prompt:
echo wireless-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz > wireless_tools.tcz.dep
tc@box:~$ lspci
sh: lspci: not found
You need the following extensions & dependency files:
libpci.tcz
pci-utils.tcz
pci-utils.tcz.dep
Then install pci-utils with appbrowser (which will automatically load libpci)
Now for the rest:
1. Bring up the interface:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
2. Check your card is on:
ifconfig
You should see something similar to the following:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2A:3B:44:5D
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)
3. Scan for wireless networks:
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
You should see a list similar to this:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:B6:C0:33:69
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=15/100 Signal level=15/100
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"secure-spot"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000006d0fd3183
Extra: Last beacon: 776ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0006672D73706F74
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD09001018020014000000
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
4. Select the network you wish to connect to and note the type of encryption used
5. Connection examples:
a) Non-secured network
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys"
b) Secured network using WEP and a Hex key
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "default" key 12A1baf345d
c) Secured network using WEP and an ASCII password
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_home" key s:passphrase
d) Secured network using WPA - see below
6. Request an IP address
sudo udhcpc -b -i wlan0
7. Check your connection
ifconfig
You should see an IP address in the second line similar to the following:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2A:3B:44:5D
inet address:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 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)
Connecting To a Secured Network Using WPA1. Create a configuration file in
/etc :
wpa_passphrase "your_network" "your_password" | sudo tee /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
2. Edit the config file as root user and add the following line at the top:
ctrl_interface=/var/tmp/wpa_supplicant
Your config file should look like similar to this:
ctrl_interface=/var/tmp/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="your_network"
#psk="your_password"
psk=bfd6f71da67902e35fb773cdeb77eef9867ee7bf1889a032365e808f0e81d2de
}
3. Copy and paste the following lines into a startup script named "wlanup"
#!/bin/sh
sudo wpa_supplicant -Bdd -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo udhcpc -b -i wlan0
4. Make the script executable
chmod +x wlanup
5. Run the script
./wlanup
Persistence
Once everything works, add the config file to .filetool.lst
echo etc/wpa_supplicant.conf >> /opt/.filetool.lst