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Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: rrnwexec on January 02, 2006, 07:41:35 pm

I've successfully flashed 1.1.0beta1 on my 6000

I attempted to use the internal wireless on an SL-6000 to connect to any access point (AP) as follows:

     

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Under "System Tools", open "Lan & Wifi"
     on "Network settings" screen
     click "Create new"
     "Enter new profile name.." any then click OK
     for "Network type" choose "Wireless" (radio button)
     click on "Wireless" tab, ensure that "Use "any" ESSID" is checked
     click OK
Unfortunately this did not result in the expected result. No wireless link light and no connection.

Can someone who's sucessfully connected their 6000 to a wireless net please respond with a HOWTO?

Thanks in advance.
Randall.

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: eddiectc on January 02, 2006, 08:30:58 pm

u need to manually start the wlan device by running as root:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
then use dhcp to get the ip or set it manually:
dhcpcd wlan0

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: doppiaemme on January 03, 2006, 12:07:42 pm

I don't understand if hostap driver is available for the internal wireless interface...
iwconfig commands don't work even now, I'd like to know if it's a common  and well-known bug or if it's related to the standard driver

any suggestion?

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: jcabrer on January 03, 2006, 05:05:46 pm

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I don't understand if hostap driver is available for the internal wireless interface...
iwconfig commands don't work even now, I'd like to know if it's a common  and well-known bug or if it's related to the standard driver

any suggestion?
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The internal Wireless is USB, not PCMCIA/CF, so the iwconfig stuff wont work.  Anyone that knows different, please correct me.

I've been looking at fixing the script for handling Networks on the 6000, but I've not been able to spend any time on the problem in the past month.  Basically, the script needs to be made aware of USB devices.

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: DrWowe on January 03, 2006, 05:41:57 pm

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The internal Wireless is USB, not PCMCIA/CF, so the iwconfig stuff wont work.  Anyone that knows different, please correct me.

I've been looking at fixing the script for handling Networks on the 6000, but I've not been able to spend any time on the problem in the past month.  Basically, the script needs to be made aware of USB devices.
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The hostap drivers don't currently work with USB at all.  It would require an experienced kernel programmer to make it work.  The 6000 wifi uses the wlan-ng driver, which uses a different kernel interface, so iwconfig doesn't work.

All wireless parameters are set using the wlancfg and wlanctl-ng commands instead.

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: johnw on January 24, 2006, 05:21:36 pm

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u need to manually start the wlan device by running as root:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
then use dhcp to get the ip or set it manually:
dhcpcd wlan0
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This didn't work for me - well not completely.
The command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
started my wireless light blinking on my 6000L, but the second command:
dhcpcd wlan0
ran & never returned.

Basically no wireless access still.

If anyone knows the answer to this problem please speak up.  There are a lot of people here (including myself) who are not having any success with getting wireless to work in beta1 for their 6000.

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: eddiectc on January 24, 2006, 08:50:59 pm

after running /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
the interface wlan0 should be avaliable

u can check this by ifconfig wlan0

do u have dhcp server running?
or u need to set the ip manually?

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: johnw on January 26, 2006, 11:36:30 pm

Thanks for your help.  The wlan0 interface is definitely available after running "/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start".  However, running the command "dhcpcd wlan0" has no effect for me.  I was wrong in my earlier post saying dhcpcd didn't return.  Eventually it does, but after running it still doesn't allow me to be able to issue a command such as "ping 192.168.1.1" or "ping www.yahoo.com" with a good result.  The output from running "ifconfig wlan0" is the exact same after running dhcpcd as it was before running it.

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: eddiectc on January 27, 2006, 01:21:31 am

maybe ur 6k has some problem accessing the dhcp server?
maybe u can try static ip first

Title: 6000 Built-in Wireless Howto For 1.1.0beta1?
Post by: johnw on January 29, 2006, 10:48:26 pm

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maybe ur 6k has some problem accessing the dhcp server?
maybe u can try static ip first
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I restored from NAND back to my Sharp ROM.  I'll just wait till beta 3 or 4 to try it out again.  Thanks for your help.