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Irina060
Hi everyone, sorry to bother once again but I might have been too cocky believing I could fix the wifi card on my own. This pcmcia wifi card is detected properly and I can connect to a wifi network but when I try to use Dillo or do apt update it doesnt work. I tried to use it closer to the router but makes no difference.
This is a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG DWL-G650 rev. C4 detected properly in device3 as:Network: Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000 bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200 IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0 chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680 Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> scope: link WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found.I tried to look for other posts but most are pretty old (because the card itself is old), some say to install madwifi driver, I looked for that in synaptic package installer and installed the results but also no difference. This is a 108mbps card which is why I’d like to get it to work. But if it is not possible I could buy a 54mbps card
I’ll send a link I think is usefull
http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/D-Link_DWL-G650_rev_C4
Not sure if I missed any details if I did let me know. Sorry to ask for help again so soon but Im really stuck here, thanks for you help- This topic was modified 1 year ago by ModdIt.
- This topic was modified 1 year ago by ModdIt.
madibi
Hi!
I could make my cards with your chip work without ndiswrapper only once in 2008. I don’t remember the name of the distro.
Otherwise since 2005 with knoppix, they worked only with the above mentioned utility.Ndiswrapper (when it works 🙂 ) works using the win drivers. The most recent they are, the better is.
If you use antiX 19, you can give it a try. With 21 no
In case you are able to make it to work in another way, please let me know, because I am interested.
rokytnji
Well.
dmesg | grep wlan0ath5k is a pretty standard driver which has been around for ages abnd should not require ndiswrapper in my point of view.
Here is a old thread showing ath5k on my gear
https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive/wifi-configuration-t3663-s90.html
Instead of guessing which driver like mad wifi. Would use
lspciTo get the beginning numbers on it and google Debian with the search term to see what driver and if any firmware need be added on driver install.
So give up a lspci report also and we can point you on the right driver. A complete report.inxi -zv7wont hurt to post that in this thread also. Good luck .
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Just noticed yoiu mentioned wifi works but updates don’t. Is this a live session where repo on cdrom is all that is enabled.
TO CHECK
inxi -rNot sure what you mean by updating with Dillo.
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsHi! This is what dmesg | grep wlan0 gave me:
$ dmesg | grep wlan0 [ 37.975704] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 42.638743] wlan0: authenticate with e0:51:63:29:94:b5 [ 42.663371] wlan0: send auth to e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (try 1/3) [ 42.665251] wlan0: authenticated [ 42.696245] wlan0: associate with e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (try 1/3) [ 42.701535] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:51:63:29:94:b5 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=6) [ 42.701874] wlan0: associated [ 42.770191] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by e0:51:63:29:94:b5 [ 43.269932] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes readyThis is what lspci gave me:
$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1621 (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ULi Electronics Inc. M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+] 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08) 00:10.0 IDE interface: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE (rev c3) 00:11.0 Bridge: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 00:13.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01) 00:13.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6933/711E1 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller (rev 01) 00:14.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series (rev 64) 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)And this is inxi -zv7:
$ inxi -zv7 System: Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.6 vt: 7 dm: N/A Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Laptop System: ACER product: TravelMate 520 v: -1 serial: <filter> Mobo: ACER model: ALi Alladin Pro v: -1 serial: <filter> BIOS: ACER v: 3.3 R01-A3vEN date: 08/14/2001 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.3 Wh (0.6%) condition: 53.3/53.3 Wh (100.0%) volts: 14.8 min: 14.8 model: AS06 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging Memory: RAM: total: 493.7 MiB used: 105.2 MiB (21.3%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Info: Single Core model: Pentium III (Coppermine) bits: 32 type: MCP arch: P6 III Coppermine rev: A cache: L2: 256 KiB bogomips: 1790 Speed: 895 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 895 Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse pse36 sep sse tsc vme Graphics: Device-1: AMD Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:4c4d class-ID: 0300 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,mach64 unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~87Hz s-dpi: 96 OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: ULi M5451 PCI AC-Link Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_ali5451 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:06.0 chip-ID: 10b9:5451 class-ID: 0401 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes Network: Device-1: Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 7000 bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 8086:1229 class-ID: 0200 IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: ULi M7101 Power Management [PMU] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 6050 bus-ID: 00:11.0 chip-ID: 10b9:7101 class-ID: 0680 Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: D-Link System D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 8000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0013 class-ID: 0200 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> scope: link WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig Bluetooth: Message: No bluetooth data found. Logical: Message: No logical block device data found. RAID: Message: No RAID data found. Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 6.2 GiB (2.6%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SKC600MS256G size: 238.47 GiB speed: <unknown> type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0105 scheme: MBR Floppy-1: /dev/fd0 Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TOSHIBA model: DVD-ROM SD-C2402 rev: 1717 dev-links: cdrom,dvd Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none state: running Partition: ID-1: / size: 232.93 GiB used: 6.2 GiB (2.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: rootantiX21 uuid: 6d56f1fd-ae01-4d53-aaa8-fdbe38894e03 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1 dev: /dev/sda2 label: swapantiX uuid: 9ce7929b-e323-48c3-a480-24db78c5c814 Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 132 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 1519 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.06This is not a live session, it is a full installation. And what I was trying to say is that dillo wont load and apt update wont download files (if not wired)
rokytnji
Your chip is listed there. Been working since kernel 2.6.
I’d uninstall mad wifi since you don’t need it.
Not sure how to answer only downloads and installs packages with wired connection but wifi works for everything else?
Especially with eth1 showing down in your inxi report.dmesg looked normal. What did
inxi -rreport? I am kinda stumped cuzz I see nothing wrong so far.
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsrokytnji
Does this work in root Roxterm
apt-update && apt dist-upgradeBypassing the antiX updater?
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsModdIt
Hi,
as roki suggested please purge madwifi, pls use purge for anything you want to rid yourself of as far as possible.
do not want errant configuation files left as they can cause weird problems.
reboot before trying to connect to wifi again.
Unplug wired internet, if connected it will be prefered.You do have a supported chipset: https://wiki.debian.org/ath5k
If I remember rightly there is a switch on your device which is often reported to be troublesome.
Maybe try toggling a few times and looking in logs to see if anything changes.How are you trying to setup wifi, conmann or alternative ?.
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse is informative and helpful.If all else fails try an older kernel, or antiX 19 even 17 to see if you can get a connection.
If you are able we can than try and figure out a fix for issue on newer version.- This reply was modified 1 year ago by ModdIt.
BobC
Maybe I don’t understand your problem. Are you saying that it looks like you are connected to the internet via WiFi, but you can’t run apt update from a root terminal? I agree with Moddit, reboot with the hardwired ethernet disconnected to force it to use WiFi.
I wonder if there is a hardware switch or software switch that needs to be turned on? Fn F3 might be the key sequence for the software switch on an Acer laptop. You could try rfkill from a terminal to see if it’s blocked?
$ sudo rfkill ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked 8 bluetooth hci0 unblocked unblockedAre you using Connman? Is it really online? Run it and Alt-F11 or Right click the title bar and select Fullscreen. Post screenshots of the Status, and Wieless tabs. Look at the Details tab. If you post a screenshot of that, maybe smudge part of the address.
So, what goes wrong when you run an update? From a root terminal, post the results from
apt update- This reply was modified 1 year ago by BobC.
- This reply was modified 1 year ago by BobC.
In root terminal this is inxi -r:
# inxi -r Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 1: deb http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/MX-Packages/antix/bullseye bullseye main nosystemd nonfree Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list 1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 1: deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 1: deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free 2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.listThis is apt update (it is in spanish but I’ll translate)
# apt update Err:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.es.debian.org» Err:2 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease No se pudo resolver «security.debian.org» Err:3 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.es.debian.org» Err:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease No se pudo resolver «deb.debian.org» Err:5 http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/MX-Packages/antix/bullseye bullseye InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.cica.es» Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho Todos los paquetes están actualizados. W: Fallo al obtener http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/MX-Packages/antix/bullseye/dists/bullseye/InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.cica.es» W: Fallo al obtener http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-backports/InRelease No se pudo resolver «deb.debian.org» W: Fallo al obtener http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.es.debian.org» W: Fallo al obtener http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease No se pudo resolver «ftp.es.debian.org» W: Fallo al obtener http://security.debian.org/dists/bullseye-security/InRelease No se pudo resolver «security.debian.org» W: No se han podido descargar algunos archivos de índice, se han omitido, o se han utilizado unos antiguos en su lugar.Most of it shows “could not resolve” “could not obtain” “could not download files, some were omitted or used older ones instead”
And this is rfkill# rfkill ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 wlan phy0 unblocked unblockedI will try to send a screenshot aswell of my connman interface. It shows that it is connected and ready. But when I try something internet related it wont do anything.
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@Irina060 – I get a similar problem sometimes, when using usb wifi adapters – I lose my network connection, but connman still says I’m connected- it even get to see the wifi signal and all, but no network traffic in or out is possible. Usually my solution is to unplug the usb adapter and plug it back on… since you can’t do that, you can try this: turn wifi off in connman, wait a couple of seconds, turn it back on and see if it works… you may get lucky…
If it’s a connman problem, another option is switching your network manager – antiX 21 has tool for that…P.
- This reply was modified 1 year ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 1 year ago by PPC.
Does it work if you first unplug the cable (with the wifi off) then switch on the wifi?
Would mean better do a reboot
When the wifi isn’t working, post the output of
/sbin/ifconfig
and route -n.
Also
run ping -n 8.8.8.8I tried disconnecting and reconnecting, disconnect and unplug then plug back in and it auto connects, unplug with no warning and plug back in, and restarting and plugging again. Non of those worked. Sometimes the laptop wont recognise the pcmcia card first try but always the second. When I get home I will try to post the output of /sbin/ifconfig and route -n and then run ping -n 8.8.8.8
I will also try to see if I can switch the network manager.
I see no switch in the pcmcia card and the are some jumpers inside the laptop but those are only to configure the keyboard language.
I will try to send aswell a screenshot of the details tab of connman
caprea
Might also try to restart connman
sudo service connman restartLike already mentioned try other kernels, install them with package installer.
Should nothing from previous posts help please dig deeper.
Lets reinstall the firmware package in case something is wrong.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-atheros
No need for reinstall flag, (famous last words) apt should just
reinstall the package.reboot without wired then:
Lets see if the firmware really is loading correctly-
sudo dmesg | grep 'ath5k\|firmw'Hope that is exact.From here I would also try to connect after a switch to ceni.
I have a device where conmann gave me trouble.Seems the reference to a switch was incorrect, sorry. The info came from a forum.
Moddit Should have searched for manuals. Done. Links below.
https://manualzilla.com/doc/7081285/acer-travelmate-520-series-user-s-manual
Service manual link below.
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/232745/Acer-Travelmate-520.html
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