Openbox and Lxde : wlan0 not started at boot

[melodie]

Hi,

Siamer gave a try to Openbox and told me that wlan0 is not detected correctly, so I tried to activate wlan0 in PCC > Services, but error messages occur at boot.

Then, working on Lxde for the french version, I tried to activate wlan0 in PCC > services as well, and got the same error message, so I thought I would take a shot and come here to tell about it.

Here is the shot:
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4602/wlanp.png

How could I fix it ?

Thanks,
Mélodie

[warrenweiss]

As usual, start with the basics:

Basic Wireless Tips: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,56672.0.html

A quick search of the following error

module p80211 not found

tells me that the hardware might not be supported by the current kernel.  Using the Windows driver via ndiswrapper could be the better solution.

[melodie]

Hi warrenweiss ,

I am not trying to connect with wifi on a machine that does not have wifi card. This is all a remaster matter... I might be missing some packages. I'll follow a recent siamer's advise and check if wpa_supplicant is installed. I'll compare with what he put in Zen mini as well.

Anyhow any idea is appreciated.

The screeshot : it says in french "line 71 too many arguments (repeated once)" ; "stopping WLAN interfaces : wlanctl-ng : No such device (already in english)" ; (more in english) ; failed to load p80211.o".

Shouldn't this module be activated in kernel to avoid this message ? Even as module ? (I didn't check if it was in the kernel config file at the moment, though)

[melodie]

I do a few tests:

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# modprobe p80211
FATAL: Module p80211 not found.

# apt-cache search 80211
crda - Software to upload wireless regulatory information into kernel
iw - Configuration utility for wireless devices

What are crda and iw ?

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]# apt-cache show iw
Package: iw
Section: System/Base
Installed Size: 71667
Packager:
Version: 0.9.18-1pclos2010
Depends: libc.so.6, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7), libnl.so.1
Provides: iw = 0.9.18-1pclos2010
Architecture: i586
Size: 1
MD5Sum:
Filename:
Summary: Configuration utility for wireless devices
Description:
 iw is[b] a new nl80211[/b] based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices.
 Currently you can only use this utility to configure devices which use a
 mac80211 driver as these are the new drivers being written.



Code: [Select]

# apt-cache show crda
Package: crda
Section: System/Configuration/Hardware
Installed Size: 16808
Packager:
Version: 1.1.0-1pclos2010
Depends: udev, wireless-regdb, libc.so.6, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4), libgcrypt.so.11, libnl.so.1
Provides: crda = 1.1.0-1pclos2010
Architecture: i586
Size: 1
MD5Sum:
Filename:
Summary: Software to upload wireless regulatory information into kernel
Description:
 CRDA acts as the udev helper for communication between the kernel and
 userspace for regulatory compliance. It relies on nl80211 for
 communication. CRDA is intended to be run only through udev
 communication from the kernel. The user should never have to run it
 manually except if debugging udev issues.


Does this give someone any idea for a fix ?  In your machines, if fully up to date, does that work ?

Thanks.