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ant2ne · Joined:Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:30 pm Posts:212

JohnnyCanuck wrote:

Right now I have kubuntu on trying to figure out what the difference is from the straight debian xfce. While I can do as you suggest, do you think it would be better to wait until I put debian back on?

Hey Johny,
Does this thing currently boot debian? We can't really troubleshoot something that doesn't exist. You have to take the plunge and put debian on the thing and we can go from there.

t00sl0w · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:43 am Posts:28

aye guys, i have the airport extreme, and i cant connect using any of the options listed thus far.

for ref, i have a ibook g4 1.33
straight up, i am new to linux. i have a desktop dualbooting with ubuntu, but that was more for messing around when i had the time. well, this computer died, and so i decided to revive it with linux, and learn all i can at the same time. hopefully you guys will help

added- the following outputs.

Code:

justin # dmesg | grep airport
[   23.455412] airport 0.15 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
mac1 
justin # dmesg | grep broadcom
mac1 
justin # sudo ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:93:6d:f2:86  
          inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20d:93ff:fe6d:f286/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:12582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:12818104 (12.2 MiB)  TX bytes:879925 (859.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xb800 

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:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:8608 (8.4 KiB)  TX bytes:8608 (8.4 KiB)

mac1 
justin # sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          
pan0      no wireless extensions.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

You have a wlan0 device. it means that wireless seems to work. Did you do this?

Code:

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

if so, you might want to go to Preferences in wicd. There you put wlan0 as wireless device. You do refresh and hopefully you can connect to your network.

give me the output of:

Code:

dmesg | grep Broadcom

(with captial B)

t00sl0w · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:43 am Posts:28

tried to do the install this morning b4 work, but my dsl got all retarded so the installation was interupted in the middle of the process.
when i try to re-run it, i get a error stating that the directory may b in use by something else.

can i use 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to clean the install and restart it?

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

That's the way to go I'd say.

t00sl0w · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:43 am Posts:28

ok, the grep Broadcom didnt give me anything.
i installed the package, and changed the wireless name to wlan0.
still nothing. i also rebooted and tried again, still nothing.

any ideas?

also, the iwconfig doesnt show the wlan0 anymore

danlucier · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:46 am Posts:8

linuxopjemac wrote:

Code:

sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer

Thank you! This fixed my problems. I'm now enjoying my newly Minted iBook wirelessly.

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

tooslow:
give me the output of:

Code:

dmesg | grep airport

(everything you see copy and paste it here)

t00sl0w · Joined:Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:43 am Posts:28

Code:

justin # dmesg | grep airport
[   14.784862] airport 0.15 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)

linuxopjemac · Joined:Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:45 pm Posts:2744

I seriously don't understand this. You had an iwconfig before, so that looked good. You don't have that anymore after installing the b43-fwcutter program. Let's go 1 step back:

Code:

sudo apt remove --purge firmware-b43-installer

Reboot and hopefully you will see a device again in iwconfig.