Linux MintPPC Forums • View topic - AIrport wireless w/ Wicd (0x0021 error

Debuser21 · Joined:Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:48 am Posts:5

FYI - I am not using Linux MintPPC, but I thought that my experience may be of help here.

I recently installed Debian Wheezy onto a Blueberry iBook for my son. I had issues with the ever popular

Quote:

hermes @ 00019080: Card removed while issuing command 0x0021

In my quest for internet without a wire, I tried some ideas found on this board. Nothing seemed to work. The anwser for me was to disable wicd and set up manualy.

Code:

#/etc/default/wicd
START_DAEMON=no

Code:

#/etc/network/interfaces
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
pre-up iwconfig $IFACE essid "your ap essid"
pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key "your key in hex here"

But, while getting here, I found something else interesting. I am now running agere_sta_fw.bin 9.52 on my box. There is a way to retrieve this for use by orinoco_cs module. (This binary resides on my 10.4.11 dual-usb ibook, copy AppleAirPort.kext from your OSX box to a usb key and transer to linux box.) See the following URL for info.

http://repo.or.cz/w/agere_fw_utils.git/tree/

You can get 9.48 firmware here (use "raw"):

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g ... git;a=tree

You should check the firmware header to verify that it is not corrupted.

Quote:

>> Can you confirm the following:
>> * first 128 bytes of your firmware image:
>> 'head -c 128 /lib/firmware/agere_sta_fw.bin | od -x'
>
> First 128 bytes of the firmware image is below
>
> 0000000 4846 5730 3030 3000 00c2 800f 0002 0000
> 0000020 0000 0000 0012 c3bc 0000 7ac3 bd00 00c3
> 0000040 a6c3 bd00 0046 5550 5537 4433 3764 6866
> 0000060 7763 6901 4300 001f 0000 c3ac 0f60 c3bc
> 0000100 633e 6000 65c3 af60 c3be 613c 6000 66c3
> 0000120 af60 c3be 6446 4b58 c390 6546 59c3 982b
> 0000140 46c3 bb1f c280 6013 78c3 bfc3 bf00 6401
> 0000160 60c3 be63 0360 c3be 6170 6000 66c3 be60
> 0000200

per the following chain: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... hange+View

Here is a link to a pic of my machine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72928239/Photo% ... %20AM.jpeg

I am happy to see so many people interested in running GNU/Linux on their older ppc machines. Even though I am using pure Debian currently, I thought that my findings would be more useful here.

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

thank you vey much for your ideas !

iBookRevival · Joined:Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 pm Posts:15

Hello wireless users!

I'm a total newbie on PPC distros and after reading the forum I'm sure
installing Linux Mint PPC on my iBook G3 A1007 is the best solution to
make it really alive!
The trouble is that my internal lan is defective but I have an Airport
card which works... but...

I made a boot cd from
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/powe ... t/mini.iso

At the yaboot prompt I type
boot: install url=mintppc.org

but at the network hardware detection process I have this message:
[...] the missing firmware files are: agere_sta_fw.bin... Load missing
firmware from removable media?

I type yes because I have the bin file on a usb flashdrive (sdb) but I
guess I need to type something in the 2sd console because on console 4 I
read this... mount: mountig /dev/sdb on /media failed: No such file or
directory

If someone could help me finding a way to continue the install, I would be very grateful!
Thanks a lot,
Cyrille

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

you can skip that step in the installation.

iBookRevival · Joined:Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 pm Posts:15

I tried skipping it but then I don't have internet access, enabling me to download from mirrors ;-(

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

oops I see your problem now, you don't have wired ethernet.
you can go into a console and try to find the device name of that stick

Code:

dmesg | more

scroll through
then if you know the partition number, you should be able to mount the device
say the device is hda and you have the file on the firstr partition

Code:

mount /dev/hda1 /media

check if /media exists, otherwise create it

if all fails, send me the file and I will put it on mintpcc.org for you to download, easy.

iBookRevival · Joined:Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 pm Posts:15

thanks a lot! I'm going to try in a minute!

iBookRevival · Joined:Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 pm Posts:15

It's a little longer, I've just noticed the key | is not part of my iBook keyboard layout, I need to change the layout to find it!!

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

I have US style:
jkl;'\
the last one with SHIFT gives |

iBookRevival · Joined:Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 pm Posts:15

I carefully followed your precise instructions, but I get stuck with a

mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /media failed: No such file or directory

I'll try with another usb drive... Maybe I need a specific format? (Fat32?)

Thanks for your patient help!
Cyrille