Wireless Issues

[chazz569]

I've had pretty much the same issues with different distros, I like tiny core due to it's speed so i'm having a standoff on that front.  I tried everything I can think of to get my Broadcom adapter to work...got so close one time I actually got the wireless light on my Dell Latitude E5400 to come on.  I read the tutorial "Wireless in 5 minutes" and many others, and i'm lost.  I used to use windows, the only thing stopping me from a full transition to linux is this wireless issue, i figure if i can't get it to work in TC then i just won't get it to work.

Here is my iwconfig, let me know if anything else is needed...I really would like to make this work.  I like TC so much that I even remastered it using MC and XFCE4.  I don't want to give up, but i'm not far from that point.  There is no encryption currently on my router for testing reasons.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

wlan0 IEE 802.11bg Mode: Managed Access Point: not-associated
Tx-Power=0 dbm
retry long limit: 7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off

[chazz569]

While I was on the subject, figured i'd throw this in.  I can't get flash to work, i've installed it on a couple PCs (flash10 from repository), yet I still cant access flash from firefox.  I think I got it to work like once, just wondering if there was a trick to it.

[TroyB]

Tried this, worked for me.

iwconfig
lsmod | grep ath or p54pci
modprobe -l | grep wfi
iwconfig wlan0 or eth1 essid "AP" key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
iwlist wlan0 or eth1 scanning
sudo udhcpc -b -i wlan0 or eth1
sudo wicd-start

[thane]

For Flash, this from the Downloads section (getFlash10) worked for me:

                NOTE: You must have already downloaded the browser and OSS.
                You must have started the browser at least once!
                You must have OSS started with the sound on menu option.
                Then select getFlash10 from the Apps menu.
.
                If you already have your tce directory setup, then a flash10.tcz
                will be installed there, otherwise it is in /tmp/tce/.  flash10.tcz
      will be loaded upon completion of the getflash script.

Sorry, I can't help with the wireless -- I'm one of those primitives who's still chained to his desktop...

[Juanito]

My guess is you have broadcom hardware, which might work with the b43 module in the wireless-2.6.33.3-tinycore extension.

If this is the case, you will also need the broadcom firmware - the linux wireless web site explains how to get it.

[bmarkus]

In worst case ndiswrapper may help.

[chazz569]

It does fine until I hit this line iwlist wlan0  scanning

in which case it gives me this:

Interface doesn't support scanning: Network is down

The wifi light never comes on with kind of tells me its a driver issue.  Using NDis wrapper the light comes up after i load the driver, but it still doesn't work.

[tinypoodle]

Tried after

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sudo ifconfig wlan0 up?

[mountaineer]

I have the same problem. Did someone find the solution?