Acer Aspire One with AMD C50 - no internet connection or audio available

[rizzim3]

Just wondering if anyone can help or provide some guidance.

I recently purchased the latest Acer netbook with the AMD C50 chip and have two issues while running under TC3.5. The issues are;

1) No access to wired and wireless internet
I used ifconfig and I got a block of text for "dummy0" and another block of text for "lo". No info for atho or eth0 was returned. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get the cards recognized. Perhaps an updated driver is required?

2) No sound
I used VLC to watch a movie and all I got back was the video with no audio. I did have OSS installed. VLC did give me a warning message stating that if I were to update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f that it may help with the audio issue.

Perhaps there are no Linux drivers for these items yet?

Any solution to address these issues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Juanito]

No access to wired and wireless internet
I used ifconfig and I got a block of text for "dummy0" and another block of text for "lo". No info for atho or eth0 was returned. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get the cards recognized. Perhaps an updated driver is required?

What wired and wireless network hardware do you have?

[rizzim3]

I believe I have the following:

1) Wired - Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0
2) Wifi - Broadcom Corporation BCM4313

[Juanito]

2) Wifi - Broadcom Corporation BCM4313

You'll probably need to double-check on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

..but, either the b43 or the wl modules should work and failing that ndiswrapper.

There are plently of posts on these forums about getting broadcom wifi to work.

[rizzim3]

Juanito:
Thanks for the info. I tried the ndiswrapper method but without any success. I will try once again. If it doesn't work then I will wait for the next release of TC which I hope will have the correct drivers for my wired/wireless device.

I really enjoy working with TC (just started with Linux last week) but I do need access to the internet. So, it's back to Windows until I can resolve these network access issues.

Thanks again for your help...

[curaga]

Looks like the wired support for that went in to .37.

[Juanito]

I'd give the wl extension a go first and if that doesn't work, there's a good chance that a working windows driver (inf and sys file) would work with ndiswrapper.

[rizzim3]

Juanito:
I did some further investigation. Read the following from the broadcom site:

http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt

I believe that this is the solution but not sure if I have the skill set to actually do it. Sure, I can follow what they say but I doubt I would be able to assess any issues that may arise after. I will search the forum for some additional methodologies as well.

curaga:
I read that somewhere as well. Which makes me think I should just wait for the next build and just live with Windows in the mean time. Does anyone know when the next TC build is?

Thanks!

[rizzim3]

Juanito:
1) Wireless issue has been resolved.

I re-read your earlier post and I mis-understood what you meant about the wl module. Anyway, I loaded the wl and wifi-radar extensions and everything works. The card is recognized, put in my WEP key and now have access to the internet.

BTW, when I configure my WEP key via the configuration menu in Wifi Radar I lose this on shutdown. I tried looking for a configure file to add it to the backup/restore file but can't find it. Do you know if there is a configure file? If so, where?


2) Still do not have wired access with my atheros card.
Will tackle this issue next but for now I'm just enjoying the fact that I have wireless!

Thanks!

[gerald_clark]

I just use a couple of iwconfig commands in bootlocal.sh.

[rizzim3]

gerald_clark:
I was thinking of something like that but then again I don't want any wireless starting up at boot. I prefer to have the applications I require installed on an "as needed basis". I guess I can just create a text file with the WEP key and just copy and paste when asked for the key. I just assumed that there would be a Wifi Radar config file somewhere that kept the information for each access point once they were set. Perhaps there is and I just can't find it...

Thanks!

[rizzim3]

FYI: I found the Wifi-Radar config file. If anyone is interested it is located here:

/usr/local/etc/wifi-radar/

This was from the extension Info page within AppBrowser.

I just added this to .filetool.lst and it works. No need to reenter the WEP key at next connect

[Juanito]

BTW, when I configure my WEP key via the configuration menu in Wifi Radar I lose this on shutdown. I tried looking for a configure file to add it to the backup/restore file but can't find it. Do you know if there is a configure file? If so, where?

I don't use wifi radar, I just run a small script with all the required details when I need to connect using wifi:

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#!/bin/sh -e
#
tce-load -i /mnt/sda1/tce/optional/wl.tcz
tce-load -i /mnt/sda1/tce/optional/wireless_tools.tcz
#
sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_tkip
sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_wep
sudo modprobe lib80211_crypt_ccmp
#
sleep 5
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid "ssid"
sudo iwconfig eth1 key restricted 12:34:56:78:9A:BC:DE:F0:12:34:56:78:9A

#
sudo udhcpc -b -i eth1
#
# EOF

[rizzim3]

Juanito:
So, just run the script when required. I like that! Sounds much better then using my current method.

Quick question:
Why do you include the modprobe commands? Just asking because when I used the wl extension I did not need to do any of this. Is this required for your wireless card?

Thanks!

[Juanito]

The script is quite old - the modprobe commands used to be required, but quite possibly they are no longer required - I never got around to checking