[puredyne] no wifi on IBM Thinkpad`

Tue Feb 9 22:56:19 CET 2010

hurray! I can now connect to my wep protected wifi network, but also to 
a public open network in the public library. This happened only after I 
installed wicd (this was suggested by Grant, they talk about this app in 
launchpad). However it only works if i dont have the firmware installed. 
Still, it does not seem to work 100% as I cannot see but my network when 
I search at home, I usually see up to 10 networks in my room.

So in my case (IBM X32) i just did :
- enable orinoco and orinoco_cs modules
- install wicd

I would expect that the network manager and wicd would use the same 
commands under the hood, but obviously they dont. Wicd has quite a lot 
of options that nm doesnt, seems more sofisticated. I wonder what it is 
doing that I havent done before. I did few tries at configuring the 
network manually with iwconfig and dhclient.

ar., 2010.eko otsren 02a 22:01(e)an, grant centauri(e)k idatzi zuen:
> ok well i've finely gotten back to trying the wireless here and found
> that I had to load three modules just to get the card to start working:
>
> ndiswrapper
> orinoco
> orinoco_cs
>
> without ndiswrapper the card would start and then immediately disable.
> now the card is enabled, it is showing up as eth1, but I can't get it to
> connect to any networks.
>
> here is some info from dmesg:
>
> [   53.467148] eth1: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
> [   53.467272] eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0007:001c
> [   53.467280] eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 7.28
> [   53.467293] orinoco_cs 0.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
> [   53.506165] eth1: Attempting to download firmware agere_sta_fw.bin
> [   53.506196] hermes_dld: AUX enable returned 0
> [   53.511403] hermes_dld: AUX disable returned 0
> [   53.511415] hermes_dld: Actual PDA length 998, Max allowed 1000
> [   53.511423] eth1: Read PDA returned 0
> [   53.511434] orinoco_cs 0.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
> [   53.584172] eth1: Cannot find firmware agere_sta_fw.bin
> [   53.584301] eth1: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
> [   53.584408] eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0007:001c
> [   53.584416] eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 7.28
> [   53.584422] eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> [   53.584427] eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> [   53.584433] eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> [   53.584525] eth1: MAC address 00:02:2d:38:82:3e
> [   53.584624] eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
> [   53.594526] eth1: ready
> [   53.603395] eth1: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 3, io 0x4100-0x413f
> [   54.027193] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
> [   54.069327] eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
> [   54.201948] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
> [   54.202498] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
> [   54.217946] eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
> [   58.258627] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
> [   58.258660] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x
> mode
> [   58.258698] pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
> [   58.540478] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> [   58.540497] [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
> [   58.540544] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> [   64.818041] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
> [  117.797678] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of
> HW, fallback to performance governor
> [  220.633526] eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
> [  220.639089] eth1: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
>
> The little network manager icon doesn't return any networks, if I
> manually put in the essid of my network, nothing happens.
>
> I looked at /etc/network/interfaces and there was only an entry for lo,
> does that have something to do with it?  Is the interfaces file not
> being used anymore?  I'm still pretty used to standard debian, and have
> noticed some changes when using Ubuntu, such as xorg.
>
> Its not a huge deal, but it is kind of inconvenient to not have
> wireless.  Let me know if you have any ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Grant
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Karsten Gebbert <karsten at goto10.org
> <mailto:karsten at goto10.org>> wrote:
>
>     altern said :
>      >
>      > >I'm not sure which one refers to the wireless card.  On the card
>      > >it says Lucent Technologies, Orinoco.
>      >
>      > try
>      >
>      > $ sudo modprobe orinoco
>      > $ sudo modprobe orinoco_cs
>      >
>      > not sure if you need both or if just orinoco is enough. In my
>      > machine I must load this modules for the wifi card to work
>      >
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>     small tipp if you don't know already - if that works you could put the
>     module names into /etc/modules so they are automatically loaded during
>     boot time.
>
>     k
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