[solved] Help me set up wireless in my ibook G4

stryder · 2011-08-15 04:54:41

Though I have been using arch for many years I have never used wireless. But the itch to install archlinuxppc into my ibook was too great and I have finally done so. Wired ethernet is fine and everything is up and running. Now I am trying to get the wireless running using the wiki wireless setup.

The driver is b43. I have blacklisted b43legacy which is also loaded. Have tested that only b43 gets me wlan0 with the iwconfig command. ip addr gives me wlan0, state DOWN. If I blacklist b43 and use b43legacy I don't get wlan0.

ifconfig tells me that wlan0 is not up (viewable with ifconfig -a). ifconfig wlan0 up tells me SIOCSIFFLAGS : no such file or directory.

Following the wiki,
step 0 : OK (set mode to ad-hoc)
step 1 : ip link set wlan0 up - RTNETLINK answers: no such file or directory
step 2: iwlist wlan0 scan - wlan0 interface doesn't support scanning : network is down.

Going straight to step 3 (using wpa_supplicant) merely tells me that wlan0 does not exist: no such file or directory.

I have no clue what next to do. Am I missing some other file, program?

Last edited by stryder (2011-08-15 08:07:02)

ewaller · 2011-08-15 06:02:30

stryder wrote:

...ifconfig wlan0 up tells me SIOCSIFFLAGS : no such file or directory....

Did you do that with root privileges?

stryder · 2011-08-15 06:42:39

yes I was root.

tomk · 2011-08-15 06:44:36

You didn't mention installing the firmware. b43 won't run without it.

Details in the wiki.

stryder · 2011-08-15 08:06:08

Thanks, Tomk. That was it. Running now.

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[solved] Help me set up wireless in my ibook G4

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