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Hi!
I just wanted to check if there is someone who knows which wireless network card there is in this computer?
I bought this computer yesterday and I want to install Linux on it but it cannot find the wireless network card.
I know this is one of the biggest problems when it comes to compatibility with Linux but I just wanted to see if there is someone out there that could help me
Thanks in advance!
/Neuwerld
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Hi!
I just wanted to check if there is someone who knows which wireless network card there is in this computer?
I bought this computer yesterday and I want to install Linux on it but it cannot find the wireless network card.
I know this is one of the biggest problems when it comes to compatibility with Linux but I just wanted to see if there is someone out there that could help meThanks in advance!
/Neuwerld
After looking around HP's driver page (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/soft … ct=3996470), it seems like the wireless card is either an Atheros, Intel, or Broadcom.
Also, AFAIK, can't you just boot up Windows and check the device manager?
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Or post the output of lspci
"I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems."
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It´s been a really long time since I done these things so you have to forgive me
The output of lspci -v is:
Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 3040
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
The wireless card is there but I just need to install it and so on.
I should maybe say that im running centos 5 i386 and not Arch, the reason that I post in this forum is that I have been using it for a time now (running Arch on the main computer).
Hope you are ok with this.
I have tried to get it to work with madwifi but for the moment I don´t have any more temper left for it.
All help is welcome!
Edit:
This is shown on a ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:8B:E9:99:07
inet addr:192.168.0.103 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::223:8bff:fee9:9907/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:42869 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:51803780 (49.4 MiB) TX bytes:3302661 (3.1 MiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8665 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6195752 (5.9 MiB) TX bytes:6195752 (5.9 MiB)
peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:42968 errors:0 dropped:382649541 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:51841957 (49.4 MiB) TX bytes:3313677 (3.1 MiB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000
vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:29504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:42968 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3314015 (3.1 MiB) TX bytes:51841957 (49.4 MiB)
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:8261 (8.0 KiB)
xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2285 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:667375 (651.7 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
I don´t understand why there is so many interfaces ex. what is xenbr0?
/Neuwerld
Last edited by neuwerld (2009-08-04 21:27:10)
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Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
I have tried to get it to work with madwifi but for the moment I don´t have any more temper left for it.
You need to install an RTFM interface.
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also look into the wiki , the wireless drivers and look for ath9k AR9285 . I think it's supported maybe in the main kernel or you will have to install a driver via AUR or the repo's. So first download the drivers with a wire
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Thanks for all the help!
I can´t find any driver to download and also it says it´s made for kernel 2.26=> and on my computer I only have 2.18, there is not any newer kernel on the base repos.
I can´t understand how hard it is to run this damn distribution, everything is 10 times harder then it was with Arch, I can´t understand how to upgrade the kernel, what I understand the newer kernels support this driver and the easiest way to solve my problem would be to upgrade the kernel.
/Neuwerld
Last edited by neuwerld (2009-08-05 17:21:11)
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CentOS is meant to be a quick way of getting a free-of-charge and 100% RHEL compatible system (often a server) up and running. You are intending to use it for a laptop I see, which will take some hacking. A good amount of Red Hat knowledge and methodology would probably help out...
CentOS forums/wiki may be a better resource.
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Now I think I have managed to install compat-wireless. Now I got this when doing iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.
The wireless network card won´t search for networks is there something I can do to make it do that?
I know before when I ran a computer with a USB stick it just searched and I got a list of available networks to connect to.
/Neuwerld
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Check www.centos.org>CentOS 5>Network Support>CentOS 5.3 +Atheros AR925x-wireless entry dated 5/11/2009 for links to CentOS 5.3 wireless setup on similar laptop. Don't be concerned by kernel version 2.6.18x. CentOS 5.3 backports kernel support from newer kernels. You seem to have xen kernel version hence the ifconfig results. Make sure you have the kernel you need. Check the CentOS wiki for how-tos also.
Good luck.
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The wireless network card won´t search for networks is there something I can do to make it do that?
I know before when I ran a computer with a USB stick it just searched and I got a list of available networks to connect to./Neuwerld
You tried
iwlist scanning
?
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hmmm...this is really a challenge
I followed most of the guide, thou it wasn´t as easy as the guide.
There was no ndiswrapper och dkms in repo so I had to fix that, but then when I had everything fixed and just should do a ndiswrapper -i driver.inf it said command not found!?
And also when I tried to do modprobe ndiswrapper it said it couldn´t find the module, it very much here that I am totally new to, Im used to simple things like in Arch.
Also all command have to be run like: sudo /sbin/iwconfig and so on, guess I have to change som addressing thing or something somewhere.
/Neuwerld
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I could really need some help here, I need to get this working, isn´t there anyone that has got this working and can share a guide or something?
/Neuwerld
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