Regarding Wireless drivers in Zeroshell

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February 24, 2009 at 5:04 pm #41500

skumaran
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I am currently working on a project for building a wireless router and I had purchased a net5501-70 board from Soekris Engg. for this project.

I went through the Zeroshell website and found an guide for installing Zeroshell onto net5501 board. It was very useful and I also successfully installed Zeroshell in my net5501 board. I downloaded “ZeroShell-1.0.beta11-ALIX-CompactFlash-1GB.img.gz” from zeroshell website and installed it into my Compact Flash card.

Now I am trying to include the wireless functionality in the board. For that I have purchased a Atheros chipset based mini-PCI adapter EMP-8602 PLUS-S from EnGenius Corporation. I would like to know if I need to install any other extra driver like MadWifi for making the wireless functionality work on Zeroshell. If I need to install few more drivers then please let me know where I can find them and how I can install them in the Zeroshell which is already running on my CF card. It would be very helpful if
anyone can help me out with this.

Thanks.

February 24, 2009 at 5:35 pm #47683

imported_fulvio
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What is the name of the Atheros chipset used by your wifi card?

February 24, 2009 at 5:56 pm #47684

skumaran
Member

Fulvio,

I am not sure of the Atheros chipset used by my wifi card. Here is the link to the manufacturer website.

http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/products/details.aspx?id=220

I saw the datasheet and it says that it is a Atheros 6th G mini-PCI Adapter. I am totally new to the wireless domain and I am sorry for not answering directly to your question. It would be great if you can help me out in this.

Thanks.

February 24, 2009 at 6:24 pm #47685

imported_fulvio
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I suppose your card is based on AR5413 802.11abg chipset. If so it is automaticall supported without adding any driver. In any case, post the result of the command:

lspci -v

Regards
Fulvio

February 25, 2009 at 12:51 am #47686

skumaran
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Please find below the result for lspci -v

root@zeroshell root> lspci -v
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] Host
Bridge (rev 33)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
idge
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248

00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX A
ES Security Block
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX AES Security Block
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

00:06.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 010
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e100
Memory at a0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:07.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)

Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e200
Memory at a0004100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [si
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)

Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at e300
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)

Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
I/O ports at e400
Memory at a0004300 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:14.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA (r
ev 03)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
I/O ports at
I/O ports at
I/O ports at

00:14.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE
(rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size
=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size
=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
I/O ports at e000

00:15.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] OH
C (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] OHC
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15
Memory at a0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:15.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] EH
C (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] EHC
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15
Memory at a0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

Please let me know if you need any other information

Thanks

February 25, 2009 at 8:21 pm #47687

imported_fulvio
Participant

Looking at the output of the lspci command it seems your wifi card is not installed or is broken. The issue is not due to the MadWiFi drivers.

Regards
Fulvio

February 26, 2009 at 2:49 am #47688

skumaran
Member

Fulvio,

The wireless card was not fixed properly so it was not getting detected. I fixed the problem and it is working properly. Thanks for the help.

May 2, 2011 at 6:01 pm #47689

GibParadoX
Member

Hi there.

I have recently installed Zeroshell on an Alix board.
It works great.

Today I added a Mini-PCI wifi card so that I can disable the wifi on my router and put the WLAN behind a captive portal managed by ZS.

I can see the card in the network settings, but it says it’s down, and I don’t know what to do next. Am I doing something wrong? Is it missing a driver?
If so, how do I install it?

Thanks a lot! 🙂

February 7, 2012 at 2:18 pm #47690

Nombela
Member

I have recently installed Zeroshell on an Alix board.I have minipci http://landashop.com/catalog/adaptador-minipci-80211gb-atheros-24ghz-tplink-wn360g-p-1003.html
ZeroShell dont reconogcise. ¿What i do?
Thanks

@GibParadoX wrote:

Hi there.

I have recently installed Zeroshell on an Alix board.
It works great.

Today I added a Mini-PCI wifi card so that I can disable the wifi on my router and put the WLAN behind a captive portal managed by ZS.

I can see the card in the network settings, but it says it’s down, and I don’t know what to do next. Am I doing something wrong? Is it missing a driver?
If so, how do I install it?

Thanks a lot! 🙂

February 7, 2012 at 2:55 pm #47691

Nombela
Member

Hi
Information: lspci -v
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5007G Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc.: Unknown device 2055
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at e00c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

@Nombela wrote:

I have recently installed Zeroshell on an Alix board.I have minipci http://landashop.com/catalog/adaptador-minipci-80211gb-atheros-24ghz-tplink-wn360g-p-1003.html
ZeroShell dont reconogcise. ¿What i do?
Thanks

MORE INFO

11.254, IP Address:192.168.250.254, IP Address:192.168.10.254
Certificate is to be certified until Apr 12 11:18:38 2001 GMT (365 days)

Write out database with 1 new entries
Data Base Updated
Generating admin user certificate…
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
………………………………………………………++++++
…………++++++
writing new private key to ‘/tmp/x509default.key’

Using configuration from /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
Check that the request matches the signature
Signature ok
Certificate Details:
Serial Number: 6054 (0x17a6)
Validity
Not Before: Apr 12 11:18:40 2000 GMT
Not After : Apr 12 11:18:40 2001 GMT
Subject:
organizationalUnitName = users
commonName = admin
X509v3 extensions:
X509v3 Key Usage:
Digital Signature, Key Encipherment, Data Encipherment
X509v3 Extended Key Usage:
TLS Web Client Authentication, E-mail Protection
Certificate is to be certified until Apr 12 11:18:40 2001 GMT (365 days)

Write out database with 1 new entries
[ OK ]e Updated
[ OK ] LDAP daemon…
[ OK ] DNS service…
[ OK ] system log daemon…
[ OK ] kernel log daemon…
[ OK ]connection tracking modules (h323,ftp,sip,irc,pptp,tftp)
[ OK ]NAT tracking modules (ftp,pptp)
[ OK ]g Layer 7 protocol definitions (l7-protocols-2009-05-28)
Starting Firewall…
Starting Captive Portal …
–> Gateway activated
–> Web Login Authentication Server started (12080-12081 tcp)
Starting Network…
Starting WiFi subsystem …

Loading Kernel modules (MadWifi) for Atheros Chipsets …
PROCESS ABORTED:
No WiFi Atheros compatible chipset has been found.

Detecting ethernet interfaces…
ETH00 (hardware changed) : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
ETH01 (hardware changed) : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
ETH02 (hardware changed) : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
Configuring interfaces…
ETH00: 192.168.1.254/255.255.255.0
ETH01: 192.168.10.254/255.255.255.0
ETH02: 192.168.11.254/255.255.255.0
VPN99: 192.168.250.254/255.255.255.0
Starting Routing…
Starting Quality of Service on:
[ OK ] (Classes: DEFAULT,FTP,P2P,SMTP,VOIP)
[ OK ] (Classes: DEFAULT,FTP,P2P,SMTP,VOIP)
[ OK ] NTP daemon…
[ OK ] DHCP daemon…
[ OK ] Dynamic DNS client daemon…
[ OK ] Log Watcher…
Starting Kerberos 5 KDC
[ OK ]istribution Center process
[ OK ]n administration process
[ OK ] httpd daemon…
Starting RADIUS daemon…
[ OK ] RADIUS Accounting …
Checking HTTP Transparent Proxy and AntiVirus configuration…
–> Starting HAVP Proxy service…
–> Starting ClamAV AntiVirus AutoUpdate…
[ OK ] cron daemon …
Starting MRTG …
[ OK ]ing MRTG …
[ OK ] Bandwidthd …
[ OK ] Daemon Watcher …
[ OK ] AutoUpdate daemon…

Z e r o S h e l l – Net Services 1.0.beta16 April 12, 2000 – 13:20

Hostname : zero.mmmm.com
CPU (1) : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS 498MHz
Kernel : 2.6.25.20
Memory : 255668 kB
Uptime : 0 days, 0:1
Load : 1.45 0.45 0.16
Profile : ZeroShell

COMMAND MENU
Activate Profile

Change admin password
Deactivate Profile Show Routing Table
Shell Prompt Show Firewall Rules
Reboot Show Network Interface
Shutdown Fail-Safe Mode
Create a Bridge IP Manager
WiFi Manager

Select: W

Authentication Required

admin password:
Successfully authenticated

Loading Kernel modules (MadWifi) for Atheros Chipsets …
PROCESS ABORTED:
No WiFi Atheros compatible chipset has been found.

Press any key to return to the Command Menu.

Z e r o S h e l l – Net Services 1.0.beta16 April 12, 2000 – 13:20

Hostname : zero.mmmm.com
CPU (1) : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS 498MHz
Kernel : 2.6.25.20
Memory : 255668 kB
Uptime : 0 days, 0:2
Load : 1.57 0.55 0.20
Profile : ZeroShell

COMMAND MENU
Activate Profile

Change admin password
Deactivate Profile Show Routing Table
Shell Prompt Show Firewall Rules
Reboot Show Network Interface
Shutdown Fail-Safe Mode
Create a Bridge IP Manager
WiFi Manager
Press Ctrl+C to logout.

Select: S
Type exit or Ctrl+D to return to main menu.

root@zero root> ls pci -v
ls: pci: No such file or directory
root@zero root> lspci -v
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] Host Bridge (rev 33)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] Host Bridge
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248
I/O ports at

00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX AES Security Block
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Geode LX AES Security Block
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
Memory at efff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 1000
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1400
Memory at e0040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] (rev 96)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0106
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 15
I/O ports at 1800
Memory at e0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5007G Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc.: Unknown device 2055
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
Memory at e00c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA (rev 03)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 6000
I/O ports at 6100
I/O ports at 6200
I/O ports at
I/O ports at 9d00
I/O ports at 9c00

00:0f.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] IDE
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
I/O ports at ff00

00:0f.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] OHC (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] OHC
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
Memory at efffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:0f.5 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] EHC (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode companion] EHC
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12
Memory at efffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
@GibParadoX wrote:

Hi there.

I have recently installed Zeroshell on an Alix board.
It works great.

Today I added a Mini-PCI wifi card so that I can disable the wifi on my router and put the WLAN behind a captive portal managed by ZS.

I can see the card in the network settings, but it says it’s down, and I don’t know what to do next. Am I doing something wrong? Is it missing a driver?
If so, how do I install it?

Thanks a lot! 🙂
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