How to get wireless in new Wheezy PPC/iBook install?

[kelsoo]

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnPowerPC# ... rt_Extreme

[CiaW]

I'm not sure what desktop you're using, but if you have a Network manager icon on the panel (upper right, generally), if it's not connected it might look like 2 pc monitors. Right click on the icon to enable networking, edit connections, etc. And left click on the icon should show you the available (wireless) networks. I suspect you've tried that, but I thought I'd throw it out there, in case you didn't know you get different things on right vs left click for NM.

Try giving us output for ifconfig, also. And try 'ifup wlan0' and see if it connects, or what it says? It might help...

It looks like kelsoo posted a link before I submitted my message, so ignore this if that takes care of it.

[este_el_paz]

Folks: Sorry for the delay, I tried to reply earlier but again lost the mouse function, which started to highlight everything, but clicking on stuff wouldn't do anything, had to shut the computer down. I've tried to mv the correct xorg.conf file into place--we'll see if that fixes the problem.

OK @ kelsoo: Thanks for that link, I believe that the b43 fwcutter?? or whatever it's called was previously installed with the b43 driver. And my network default is WEP, so would I still want a "wpa supplicant"?? If the power goes off as it does here with some frequncy the network goes to its default settings--WEP.

@CiaW: Thanks for the right click info, didn't know that. It still says, "device not ready" . . . .

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# ifup wlan0
Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0.
root@Macintosh-8:/home/# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0a:95:b6:01:a6 
          inet addr:192.168.1.67  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:95ff:feb6:1a6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2651 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3450783 (3.2 MiB)  TX bytes:431220 (421.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xc000

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: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)

[este_el_paz]

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnPowerPC#Wireless_-_Airport_Extreme

@kelsoo, et al: Still trying to get the wireless set up going on the iBook . . . in the interest of self-motivation I tried following kelsoo's link recommending installing "wpa supplicant & bfw cutter" . . . still, no joy. Looks like they must be installed already??

e.e.p.

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# aptitude install b43-fwcutter wpasupplicant
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 110 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

[este_el_paz]

to whom:

I'm still struggling to find a direction for the solution to getting wireless going in the iBook . . . it seems to be resisting all prodding . . . . Tried to get it to recognize "eth1" . . . that didn't work. Seems I had some issues getting wireless going in MintPPC, but it eventually responded--this time that doesn't seem to be happening. Anyone with any ideas about how to get wireless going?

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# iwconfig eth1 mode managed key xxxxxxxxxx
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device.

e.e.p.

[CiaW]

I'm a bit stumped on the wireless issues you're having, but I can advise that eth1 (or eth0, etc.) is going to be a wired ethernet connection, not wireless. A wireless connection will start with wlan with a number (i.e. wlan0). In case that helps...

[este_el_paz]

I'm a bit stumped on the wireless issues you're having, but I can advise that eth1 (or eth0, etc.) is going to be a wired ethernet connection, not wireless. A wireless connection will start with wlan with a number (i.e. wlan0). In case that helps...

@CiaW: Thanks for being there . . . interesting on the wlan0, makes sense since "eth" could possibly be derived from "ethernet"; but I've been trying to follow through several old threads on the mintppc forum (which is based on Debian) for info on getting wireless up and running, which I had to do on the iBook when I was using mintppc . . . . Anyway, point being, the discussion was revolving around getting "eth0" recognized, or turned to "eth1" as part of getting wireless issues solved . . . . Spent a couple hours this AM trying different things, so far I'm still getting "device not ready" in the wireless tab . . . . Ran through the steps listed for installing the b43 driver, etc--shows it's installed . . . no joy on the wireless front.

e.e.p.