[SOLVED] No wireless with precise puppy on old acer laptop

[geo909]

Hi all,

A friend gave me this old acer travelmate 2312lci_l, very old, 1.4Ghz, 256 MB ram, etc..

It comes with an Atheros AR5005GS 802.11bg wireless adapter, according to the puppy network wizard. According to the same wizard, the ath5k module is used.

I get an error as follows from the puppy network wizard:

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Error!
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

Then on the terminal I do the following:

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# rfkill list
0: phy0: wlan
            Soft blocked: no
            Hard blocked: yes

However I do not see any wireless button or Fn combination for this on the laptop.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance.

[cthisbear]

Specs:???

http://www.pcworld.com/product/1342859/ ... ebook.html

Which Puppy??......Maybe try Wary.

" ...and we have a winner!

I'm posting this from a stable laptop (so far!) running Wary Puppy,"

An older one...

http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... /wary-5.1/

Newer...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.5/

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Others to try in my post here...

Try Lucid updated versions....or these.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=93962

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Your wireless light is on??????????????????

Old Acers had a physical switch?????

Chris.

[geo909]

That was precise, wrote it in the title and forgot to mention it on my post. Maybe I'll try the warry and see if I have more luck.

No, there does not seem to be any wifi switch/button/light on the laptop..

[peebee]

# rfkill list
0: phy0: wlan
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Similar problem on Precise with some wifi....although soft rather than hard blocked....

Try rfkill unblock wlan
in a terminal

If this works - put it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
for future boots

[geo909]

# rfkill list
0: phy0: wlan
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Similar problem on Precise with some wifi....although soft rather than hard blocked....

Try rfkill unblock wlan
in a terminal

If this works - put it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
for future boots

Hi,

Sorry, I'm not home now so I can't post the output, but I had tried
that and it didn't change anything..

Now that I think about it, I think there was no output at all either.

[jafadmin]

On this manual page it indicates the wireless button/indicator might be located on the front by the sound card jacks. ( #5 )

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/249214 ... =10#manual

[cthisbear]

jafadmin:

" the wireless button/indicator might be located on the front by the sound card jacks."

""""""""""

Thanks Mr J. I thought so.

" Old Acers had a physical switch?????"

Press to enable/disable the wireless function.
Indicates the status of wireles.

So is ze light on??

Chris.

[geo909]

On this manual page it indicates the wireless button/indicator might be located on the front by the sound card jacks. ( #5 )

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/249214 ... =10#manual

Wow.. I missed the button, indeed that was the problem!!
The thing is that the button is also the led, so I thought it
was just a led. I must say it was a well hidden feature

Thank you very much jafadmin and all for your help, the wireless is now
on.

[rcrsn51]

It's my understanding that if rfkill shows the wifi as "hard blocked", there are only two choices.

- Find a physical switch.

- Pull the battery in hopes that the wifi will reset to an unblocked state on its own.

[cthisbear]

geo909:

" Thank you very much jafadmin and all for your help, the wireless is
now on"

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Great that you replied back.
Great that you are connected.

Cheers....Chris.