Wireless not working in frugal Slacko 5.5

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fuelish
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Wireless not working in frugal Slacko 5.5

#1 Post by fuelish »

I want to find the files needed for wireless so I can discover if any of them are missing or broken. I am reasonably certain some file(s) are missing.

This is a Slacko 5.5 frugal install on HDD booted from livecd. The specs for this laptop are here.

Thank you for your help.

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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

[quote]The error is “Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory

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#3 Post by fuelish »

The thing is I can boot puppy pfix=ram and get a connection. Knowing that I can get a connection while booted in ram do you still think this is a conflict?

I compared slacko on another laptop of the same make. I did find files missing but I was to blurry eyed at the time to make notes. Now I can’t find the directories that had missing files.

I tried your code but it still doesn't connect.
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#4 Post by rcrsn51 »

I just tested a frugal install of Slacko55 with an ath9k adapter and it worked fine.

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#5 Post by fuelish »

rcrsn51 wrote:I just tested a frugal install of Slacko55 with an ath9k adapter and it worked fine.
Yes I know it works.

I feel certain something about this frugal install is busted. But what that is I do not know.

I did see my AP listed in network neighborhood with iwlist wlan0 scan and it did show all nearby AP.

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# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 02 - Address: Removed
                    Channel:5
                    Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
                    Quality=70/70  Signal level=-28 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"Removed"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=000000062c8c570a
                    Extra: Last beacon: 646ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 001A4F6E2074686520476F204D694669204234373720536563757265
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B960C121824
                    IE: Unknown: 030105
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

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