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slamet:
Hello,

I have searched and read for iwlagn on this forum, including this thread: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=6555.0, but still cannot get my wifi to work either via wicd nor wpa_gui.

I have an HP 6930p notebook with Intel 5100 AGN (Shiloh) according to lspci.  Per above thread, I manually did 'sudo modprobe iwlagn' and did not get any error message.  I originally used 3.2 and just installed 3.4.

And one more thing, there is a "wifi" led on the machine and it is indicating that it is turned off.  Nothing I did can turn it on and this thing is usually turned on by software.

Thank you for any help.

Juanito:
Are there any messages concerning wifi from dmesg?

slamet:
Yes, see attached files for "dmesg | grep iwl" and "iwconfig" output.

If I do "ifconfig", wlan0 does not show up at all.
If I do "ifconfig wlan0 up", I get "ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: permission denied".
If I do "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up", I get "ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132".

Many thanks.

maro:
(1) Any 'ifconfig ... up' needs to be executed as super-user, therefore always use 'sudo ifconfig ... up' (as you've done in your last attempt).
(2) Have you got the 'firmware-iwlwifi.tcz' extension installed before you did your 'sudo ifconfig ... up'? Because as the 'dmesg' output indicates it's really "crying out loud" for the 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' file (which should be included in said extension).

slamet:

--- Quote from: maro on January 02, 2011, 07:36:04 PM ---(2) Have you got the 'firmware-iwlwifi.tcz' extension installed before you did your 'sudo ifconfig ... up'? Because as the 'dmesg' output indicates it's really "crying out loud" for the 'iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode' file (which should be included in said extension).

--- End quote ---
Apparently not, since I did not realise it existed and needed.  Just added it and rebooted. 

a. But "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" still gives me "ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132".  Wifi led still says it is off.
b. Don't know why I tried it, but attached file is the output of "sudo ifconfig wlan0", if it's of any use.

Thanks.

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