wireless hp 8530w (gentoo)

[Bernouilli]

Hello,

I'm really stuck on getting my wireless to work. I spend hours of trying already
That's why I maded a little output file of lsmod and otherstuff so It could give you guy's some help.

I full hardware discription and driver description is found at this wiki:
(good overview)

Overview laptop


This is my little nano file I wrote:

I'm still in installing stage, (init 3) so I don't have a gui



----IWCONFIG OUTPUT----
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"GIGABYTE"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          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

----LSMOD OUTPUT----
Module                  Size  Used by
iwlagn                 60804  0 
iwlcore                82336  1 iwlagn



---DRIVER DIRECTORY (gentoo 10.1) correct?? ----
/lib/modules/2.6.31-gentoo-r6/build/drivers

---then I go to net/wireless/iwlwifi ---
ls:

Kconfig
Makefile
built-in.o
ellende
iwl-1000.c
iwl-1000.o
iwl-3945-fh.h
iwl-3945-hw.h
iwl-3945-led.c
iwl-3945-led.h
iwl-3945-rs.c
iwl-3945.c
iwl-3945.h
iwl-4965-hw.h
iwl-4965.c
iwl-5000-hw.h
iwl-5000.c
iwl-5000.o
iwl-6000-hw.h
iwl-6000.c
iwl-6000.o
iwl-agn-rs.c
iwl-agn-rs.h
iwl-agn-rs.o
iwl-agn.c
iwl-agn.o
iwl-calib.c
iwl-calib.h
iwl-calib.o
iwl-commands.h
iwl-core.c
iwl-core.h
iwl-core.o
iwl-csr.h
iwl-debug.h
iwl-debugfs.c
iwl-dev.h
iwl-eeprom.c
iwl-eeprom.h
iwl-eeprom.o
iwl-fh.h
iwl-hcmd.c
iwl-hcmd.o
iwl-helpers.h
iwl-io.h
iwl-led.c
iwl-led.h
iwl-led.o
iwl-power.c
iwl-power.h
iwl-power.o
iwl-prph.h
iwl-rx.c
iwl-rx.o
iwl-scan.c
iwl-scan.o
iwl-spectrum.c
iwl-spectrum.h
iwl-sta.c
iwl-sta.h
iwl-sta.o
iwl-tx.c
iwl-tx.o
iwl3945-base.c
iwlagn.ko
iwlagn.mod.c
iwlagn.mod.o
iwlagn.o
iwlcore.ko
iwlcore.mod.c
iwlcore.mod.o
iwlcore.o
modules.order


Normally I need iwl-5000, iwlagn, iwlcore 
. I added these in modules.autoload.d. 
 previosly mentioned iwl-5000 isn't in lsmod output.

I enabled iwlagn & iwl-5000 in the kernel.

Now when I use ifconfig wlan0 up I get:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory



-----
NOTE:
When I use gentoo livedvd 10.1
and following the gentoo handbook, it does work.
Not in commandline I think. 
But with the GUI toolsuddently I see a list of availeble wireless accesspoints
-----

If you guy's could help me, because I really don't know it anymore.

Thanks alot

[Rubberman]

It is recognizing your wireless card. The question is, which desktop manager are you using? KDE, Gnome, XFCE? You need to configure your network properly. The live CD/DVD does a lot of the stuff for you that you will need to do manually once you have installed it.

[Bernouilli]

I don't have a desktop gui.

It's a bit of a challenge I know

[reed9]

Your wireless card also requires extra firmware, iwlwifi-5000-ucode, which you may not have installed.

Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux*

Connection to a wireless network using no encryption or WEP is simple enough

ifconfig wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyNetwork" key 1234567890
dhclient wlan0

The key section defaults to a hexadecimal key. For ascii key do

iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyNetwork" key s:asciikey

The key section is only used for WEP encryption.

Also dhclient is one of a couple options. Gentoo might use dhcpcd instead.

dhcpcd wlan0

For WPA, you need to install wpa_supplicant, edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for your network information, and start as so

wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0

Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Wireless Networking

[Bernouilli]

Ok thanks

this is the new situation:

The iwl-5000 ucode was ok
The wlagn was also ok

but still if config wlan0 up didn't work

Then I found iwlwifi kernel snapshot of intel

then it worked.

But to get an ip i needed a script:
1)wlan essid NAME
2)manually add ip & gateway
3)add name server tot resolv.conf

4) THEN use dhpcd, to get a proper dynamic ip.


The beginning of the script says:
rmmod lwagn
modprobe lwang
non of these work( module not found)
But the script works also without these 2 comamnds

I know less about modprobe, lot's of errors like module not found
I gonna dig deeper into that subject, and maybe start a thread if i not fully understand it.

Thanks

So in the end, my wireless works

[MikeTbob]

Glad you got it working, do start a new thread if you need help with something else. Good Luck.

[Rubberman]

If you want to configure your system to initialize and startup your wireless stuff at boot, then you can do it a couple of ways, but the preferred one would be to add the code you need to /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is a script that is executed after all the other system stuff is started. That way, whenever you boot, your wireless will be setup and running before you get to your login prompt.

[waterhead]

...The beginning of the script says:
rmmod lwagn
modprobe lwang
non of these work( module not found)
But the script works also without these 2 comamnds...

The correct module name is iwlagn, that is why the script doesn't work.

[Forge]

I have an 8530p, which isn't quite identical, but very close.

You can easily set up a single wireless network from the command line (which I did), but if you're going to be traveling around and visiting many different wireless networks, I strongly recommend the KDE or Gnome variations of NetworkManager. For just one AP/wireless network, the config scripts are fine, and you can even set it up statically for multiple networks (home and work in my case), but for proper roaming, I think NM is unbeatable.

[waterhead]

NetworkManager requires that you have a KDE or Gnome desktop environment installed. The original poster does not have a desktop install, so using NetworkManager is not an option.