Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: momac on May 17, 2009, 08:22:55 AM
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I really like the idea of this distro. In fact, I have been waiting for this since shortly after I started using da*nsmall about 4 years ago. Unfortunately, TC use is limited without a network connection.
I have an MN-720 wireless card that I can't seem to get to cooperate. I have spent several hours over about 5 days trying to get this card to connect. I have tried both ndiswrapper modules with the mn720-ankh.inf driver which has worked for me in the past with DSL and Ubuntu. I am now curious if anybody has gotten this card to work with TC and the current extensions.
TIA
Mike
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::) Ouch.... 6 days on an entry error. I can't say I haven't done this before but I always kick myself for posting questions when I should have found my own mistake long beforehand.
Seems I have gotten into the habit of entering encryption keys with colons as byte separators. As in iwconfig wlan0 essid "blah" key A0:A1:A2:A3:A4
The mistake is obviously the inclusion of the colons.
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not so obvious to me.......I thought colons were included. I could have sworn I've used them in the past. I have an 80211B with WEB, but it doesn't connect either way with tc....my 80211A works fine.
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not so obvious to me.......I thought colons were included. I could have sworn I've used them in the past. I have an 80211B with WEB, but it doesn't connect either way with tc....my 80211A works fine.
Hmmm... that is interesting. I know the colons were keeping me from correctly setting up my wireless nic because I used it w/ TC much of the day yesterday. I even remastered with the wireless extensions and rebooted a few times trying to get it the way I wanted.
A last note for others using the MN-720/30. In the end I did not need ndiswrapper. I remastered to include the wireless extensions, and copied the b43legacy drivers to /lib/firmware/b43legacy. The radio is now detected on boot. I must then load the wireless modules and enter the following in ATERM:
1. iwconfig (this is optional - I only do this to confirm the detection of wlan0)
2. sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid (your_ssid_here) key (0123456789)
last line without the parens of course.
and lastly... I issue the command:
3. udhcpc -b -i wlan0
Mike
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WEB hex with colons works for DSL, but that's not using dhcp. On tc,, I did get finally get a connection with tc without the colons, so maybe you're on to something. It struggled either way...so it might have been just luck, I don't know. It's clear it works without them, however.