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Title: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: FerociousPenguin on February 09, 2013, 10:17:43 PM Hello Penguins,
I have successfully installed DSL on my old Sony VAIO laptop. Now trying to get the WiFi PCMCIA card to work. I checked Control Panel > WLCARDCONFIG and get "no wireless network card found". But when I go to Control Panel > SYSTEM STATS > PCI... I do see "Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] rev 02" on the list. How to I config this? PCMCIA -Buffalo Air Station WLI-CB-G54HP (Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] rev 02). LAPTOP -Model: Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX -CPU: Mobile Pentium II 366Mhz -RAM: 192 MB (maxed out) -Cache: 256KB -Video: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV (NM2200) -HDD: 6.4 GB (noisy). Will be replacing with a CF (Compact Flash) soon. Thanks in advance Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: CNK on February 10, 2013, 12:12:22 AM He he, naming a WiFi chipset "AirForce One", my respect for Broardcom just went up some small ammount.
Anyway, I posted a description of this process a while ago: http://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=315.0 Try to follow that if you can. Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: FerociousPenguin on March 25, 2013, 05:23:13 PM One of the DSL members PMed the quote below which was very nice. I'm re posting it here if anyone needs help. Thanks to all that replied. I decided to use Puppy Linux Wary 5.5.1 on my dinosaur vaio.
(http://s23.postimg.org/6lzezeobf/CF02.jpg) you can see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Ist9aEKEg ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi .... my laptop uses the same driver: bcmwl5a i have a compac pressario v2415la first go to page http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/ check your wireless card on http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/verified_wireless_cards.html you have to download the driver bcmwl5a. inf and bcmwl5a.sys from the page http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?joomla/index.php when you save the driver on /tmp or /sda1 use ndiswrapper from the control panel to run bcmwl drivers prompt $ ifconfig wlan0 up configure the wireless card with netcardconfig from control panel setting wlan0 on interface and apply then set the wep key on wlanconfig from same control panel prompt startx I`m from Mexico...i hope you can set wireless ...i had the same problem but i`m so happy to use wireless since 2 weeks... also you can use net man pages...from menu apps....net... net man pages Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: MPS on May 23, 2018, 04:20:47 AM Tell me where you can see the instructions for setting up the wifi network, the equipment is visible in the devices, through the DSL panel you can see that the device is defined as ath0
team sudo ifconfig ath0 up sudo ifconfig ath0 up how to register an SSID and a key, with the receipt of ip by DHCP encryption WAP/PSK laptop IBM Tinkpade X30 lan PCMCIA Delink And also save the settings after bootup, the system is installed on the hard disk Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: CNK on May 23, 2018, 11:06:24 PM If the GUI in the DSL menu under "Setup>Net Setup>iwconfig" doesn't work, you can do it from the command line as follows:
From a root terminal (or with "sudo"), use "iwconfig ath0 essid [essid] key [key]" with the corresponding values replacing the bracketed parts. See the man page (http://man.he.net/man8/iwconfig) for more detail. Then enter the command "pump -i ath0" to start dhcp. You can run "ping www.google.com" to test the connection. Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: MPS on May 27, 2018, 03:08:18 PM in the console performed:
iwconfig ath0 essid SID key s:KEY_SID sudo iwconfig As a result, there is no ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"SID Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:0kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:KEY_SID Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:2034 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: CNK on May 28, 2018, 10:54:33 PM The wifi interface isn't finding the network. Perhaps try the command "ifconfig ath0 up" after you've told it which network to connect to with iwconfig. If you haven't been doing that already.
Otherwise, check the result of the iwconfig command in another linux distro connected to the network to make sure you're using the correct ESSID and encryption key values. Also check that the wifi interface supports the WPA encryption you're using. Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: MPS on May 29, 2018, 03:52:24 AM The team carried out ifconfig ath0 up
In the panel DSLpanel/iwconfig in the key section is WEP The distribution itself supports modes WAP/PSK, WAP2/PSK ??? On this same laptop in graphical mode, Windows XP and Debian 4 wifi connected to this point Title: Re: Setting up DSL Wireless PCMCIA? Post by: CNK on May 29, 2018, 10:49:55 PM Well if all the settings for your network are right, it sounds like there's a problem with the Atheros wifi driver and your interface card.
You could try the ndiswrapper approach, which I've never needed to attempt myself. Or it might be easier to just find another PCMCIA wifi card.
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