Wifi USB - SLAX

[myfriday]

Im trying to get this set up, but im having trouble, kind of a newbie to linux so "basic" understanding language is needed please

lsusb:
BUS 001 Device 006: ID 0cde:0008 Z-Com Sitecom Wireless Network Adapter 100G+ WL-125

root@slax:~# cat /proc/net/wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22

root@slax:~# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[reed9]

The good news is this card should be supported. The bad news is I don't know anything about Slax to help you get what you need.

The driver is the p54, which may or may not be included. Post the output of lsmod

What you're probably missing is the firmware. All I can do there is direct you to this website.
p54 - Linux Wireless

[myfriday]

root@slax:~# lsmod

Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50416 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10380 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40608 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 2 snd_pcm_oss
lp 13444 0
pcspkr 6400 0
ppdev 11396 0
p54usb 16896 0
snd_nm256 69920 1
p54common 14720 1 p54usb
snd_ac97_codec 99876 1 snd_nm256
ac97_bus 5504 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69892 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_nm256,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 22792 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11272 1 snd_pcm
snd 50596 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd _mixer_oss,snd_nm256,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_ti mer
mac80211 154524 2 p54usb,p54common
sg 30260 0
psmouse 40208 0
soundcore 9952 2 snd
serio_raw 9220 0
i2c_piix4 11792 0
cfg80211 26888 1 mac80211
parport_pc 27940 1
shpchp 32916 0
isp1760 22304 0
video 20112 0
intel_agp 28732 1
agpgart 32200 1 intel_agp
output 6656 1 video
parport 34668 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
pcmcia 36012 0
dcdbas 10656 0
evdev 13216 5
yenta_socket 26764 2
rsrc_nonstatic 14464 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 35092 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
fuse 54300 1
aufs 137096 1
squashfs 47748 7
sqlzma 6788 1 squashfs
unlzma 8320 1 sqlzma

[reed9]

p54usb 16896 0

Yup, the driver is being loaded. You just need to get the firmware.

[myfriday]

I looked on the site and all i saw was .arm files, how do i install the arm files?

[reed9]

It looks like according to the site, you just need to download the file, rename it to the proper name, and stick it in /lib/firmware/

Since your exact card isn't listed in their examples, you may need to play around with the names to find the right one. It looks like one of the following should work.

isl3886usb


isl3887usb


You may be able to find more info specific to Slax through the almighty Google.

[myfriday]

Is that still in the .arm? Or do i change the file extension too?

[reed9]

Linux doesn't generally use file extensions the way windows does, so I would assume you should rename it exactly as described, without an extension.

[myfriday]

Ok i did that, but how do i configure it? It says no wireless device detected when i try to set up my wifi

[reed9]

Open a terminal and post the output of dmesg | grep firmware and ifconfig -a

If ifconfig shows a wireless device, try

su -
ifconfig wlan0 up

EDIT: wlan0 is usually what the device is called, but sometimes it's different, such as eth1 or ath0. Replace with the appropriate name.