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YTKColumba
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 Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:05 am Post subject: [Solved] Getting Network Scan Working With wicd |
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Hello,
I am new to Gentoo and I am having having some issues getting wireless connectivity. I have a Netgear WG111.
When I run iwconfig I get the following message.
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eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 no wireless extensions.
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dmesg seems to be ok.
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[ 4.732638] rtl8187 2-1.2:1.0: usb_probe_interface
[ 4.732642] rtl8187 2-1.2:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
[ 4.884791] ieee80211 phy0: hwaddr 00:18:4d:46:87:e3, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2
[ 4.897382] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0xFF
[ 4.897430] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::radio
[ 4.897439] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
[ 4.897447] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
[ 4.897870] rtl8187: wireless switch is on
[ 4.897921] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
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I am currently trying to use wicd but it shows no wireless network found.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Last edited by YTKColumba on Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:29 am; edited 2 times in total |
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SamuliSuominen
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:20 am Post subject: |
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How about `ifconfig`?
And `ls -l /sys/class/net/*`
And more information on specific device using `udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/wlan0` for example |
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YTKColumba
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| ssuominen wrote: | How about `ifconfig`?
And `ls -l /sys/class/net/*`
And more information on specific device using `udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/wlan0` for example |
Thanks for the reply.
Here's the ifconfig
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eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.11.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.11.255
inet6 fe80::5604:a6ff:fe3c:cea1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 54:04:a6:3c:ce:a1 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 654 bytes 560424 (547.2 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 590 bytes 87461 (85.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 18 memory 0xfa600000-fa620000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 24 bytes 1512 (1.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 24 bytes 1512 (1.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:18:4d:46:87:e3 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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Here's ls -l /sys/class/net/*
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 13 21:45 /sys/class/net/eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 13 21:45 /sys/class/net/lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 13 21:45 /sys/class/net/sit0 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/sit0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 13 21:45 /sys/class/net/wlan0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/net/wlan0
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Here's udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/wlan0
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calling: test-builtin
=== trie on-disk ===
tool version: 197
file size: 105 bytes
header size 80 bytes
strings 1 bytes
nodes 24 bytes
load module index
ID_NET_NAME_MAC=wlx00184d4687e3
ID_NET_NAME_PATH=wlp0s29u1u2
unload module index
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SamuliSuominen
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YTKColumba
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Cool, that seem to work, with iw dev wlan0 scan, I can find networks. But is there anyway to get scanning working on wicd? |
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SamuliSuominen
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| YTKColumba wrote: |
Cool, that seem to work, with iw dev wlan0 scan, I can find networks. But is there anyway to get scanning working on wicd? |
It's been a while I've used wicd but I tend to remember it has a configuration window where you can choose the type, in this case, the type that uses wireless-tools is propably correct
Sorry, can't be more specific, or sure, since this box is without wlan.
Perhaps you should change the $subject of this thread to reflect something like "Getting network scan working with wicd using rtl8187"
Anyway, good luck! |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:58 am Post subject: |
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YTKColumba ...
CFG80211 is the replacement for WEXT (wireless extentions) some tools are designed to use wireless extentions (ie: iwconfig, iwlist ... ie, those tools provided with net-wireless/wireless-tools), more modern tools, such as net-wireless/iw, net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, etc use CFG80211/NL80211 (netlink). So, if you want to use the former you need to enable CFG80211's WEXT compatability layer: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT. Your kernel most probably has this disabled, and I assume wicd uses iwconfig and iwlist and so doesn't work without the compatability layer.
| Code: | | # awk '/(WEXT|(CFG|NL)80211)/' /usr/src/linux/.config |
best ... khay |
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YTKColumba
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| ssuominen wrote: |
It's been a while I've used wicd but I tend to remember it has a configuration window where you can choose the type, in this case, the type that uses wireless-tools is propably correct
Sorry, can't be more specific, or sure, since this box is without wlan.
Perhaps you should change the $subject of this thread to reflect something like "Getting network scan working with wicd using rtl8187"
Anyway, good luck! |
| khayyam wrote: | YTKColumba ...
CFG80211 is the replacement for WEXT (wireless extentions) some tools are designed to use wireless extentions (ie: iwconfig, iwlist ... ie, those tools provided with net-wireless/wireless-tools), more modern tools, such as net-wireless/iw, net-wireless/wpa_supplicant, etc use CFG80211/NL80211 (netlink). So, if you want to use the former you need to enable CFG80211's WEXT compatability layer: CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT. Your kernel most probably has this disabled, and I assume wicd uses iwconfig and iwlist and so doesn't work without the compatability layer.
| Code: | | # awk '/(WEXT|(CFG|NL)80211)/' /usr/src/linux/.config |
best ... khay |
@ssuominen
I probably should use more modern tools, but I was following the install guide on the site and they suggested using wcid.
@khayyam
I will try you method and get back to you with an updated.
Thanks |
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YTKColumba
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| Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:28 am Post subject: |
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After trying a few different things I finally got it working so I'll mark this as resolved.
But ultimately after I got it working by following ssuominen's steps and this guide.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager
I also had to enabled NL80211 for the kernel and recompiling it.
Thanks for all the help. |
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