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miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-29T17:36:14+01:00

Ubuntu still doesnt recognize my USB wifi adapter. I try to install it with windows driver through ndiswrapper but it still doesn't show up on iwconfig after i installed the driver. Here is my console output:

Code:: ~ ndiswrapper -l neta5agu : driver installed device (07D1:3A0D) present ~ sudo ndiswrapper -m module configuration already contains alias directive ~ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. ~ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth2 no wireless extensions.

Statistics: Posted by SoBot — Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:36 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-22T16:36:55+01:00

Hi again All,

Well I guess that I am also the victim of a faulty 'SD Stick'. I had purchased a 32G SD card and for most things it looked like it was working fine. It did not report any errors when I copied file TO and FROM the stick, but it turns out that many of the files were indeed corrupted buy the stick.

I switched to an 8G stick and reinstall everything. I am now running Ubuntu 10.4 with 2.6.34.1 Vortex Linux Kernel. Also the r6040.ko Ethernet driver is now properly install and running.

So I guess that I will call this issue Closed. If I have additional question (as I progress in my Robot build) I will open a new Thread.

I want to thank everybody here for their help and I want to thank RoBoard as well for their Tech Support..

Thanks again...

rrbecker

Statistics: Posted by rrbecker — Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:36 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-22T04:40:48+01:00

To goto command line you need to edit

/etc/default/grub

remove "quiet splash" at end of line and replace with "text"

save file and run
sudo update-grub

this is for ubuntu 10.04 and above

Statistics: Posted by dragonax — Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:40 am

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-21T23:36:18+01:00

- fixed IP LAN address for the RoBaord in my home network

Hi Marsman,

I see in that you were able to get at least the LAN side working. I, on the other hand have not been successful. I have followed the tutorial and installed the r6040.ko driver but whenever I look at 'dmesg' I see the following: "...r6040 no symbol version for module_layout..."

Do you have any recommendations on how to get the Ethernet port to work?

BTW, I am running Ubuntu 10.

Thanks in advance

rrbecker

Statistics: Posted by rrbecker — Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:36 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-20T11:52:20+01:00

Ok, I wil try this now. So How did you manage to get ubuntu to start up in console mode automatically?

Statistics: Posted by SoBot — Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:52 am

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-11T16:32:51+01:00

Yes ur right ubuntu 10.04 doesn't run as fast but what I do is run it in command line mode without the gnome gui. If you like you can back up all the partitions on ur sd card on to your pc and install again. To back up I just used ubuntu on a desktop pc (vmware) connec sd card then use "sudo partitionmanager" and select each partition and backup. It took about 15mins to backup 8gb sc card. also I have restored is successfully onto same sd card but not sure if you can restore to different sd card

Statistics: Posted by dragonax — Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:32 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-11T13:06:24+01:00

Does your Ubuntu 10.04 run fast enough? I have Xubuntu installed to get better performance because 10.04 runs very slow on my roboard? Anycase, I have a lot of stuff installed now and I dont want to re-install them all. So I'll have to stick with Xubuntu. I got the kernel installed now and boot up with it. I still need to install the kernel source to get past this error: "Makefile:93: /lib/modules/2.6.34.1-vortex86-sg/build/.config: No such file or directory", but I dont know how. I only kow the basics of linux. I have the tar.bz2 file extracted, now what? Please help!

Statistics: Posted by SoBot — Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:06 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-11T05:18:47+01:00

Install ubuntu 10.04 follow same tutorial as ubuntu 9.04. Only thing I changed was the file system as ext4 instead of ext3.
I got usb wirelss, webcam and bluetooth working this way. Then you can just add the roboard kernal (if you want) after into your grub menu so you can choose which kernal to boot from.

Only problem was I couldn't set the screen resolution to more than 800*600 and the wired network card is not working

Hope this helps

Statistics: Posted by dragonax — Sat Sep 11, 2010 5:18 am

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-09-10T13:51:20+01:00

I also want to get the VNT6655 working. So I am trying to install the Linux Kernel package 2.6.34.1 and the source to install the driver. But if I install the Kernel package 2.6.34.1 I cant start up, it gives the error: kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block. Do I need this kernel and the source to make the VNT6655 wifi card work?

Statistics: Posted by SoBot — Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:51 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-30T12:57:38+01:00

Ok, finally I have been able extract it renaming extension (tar.gz --> tar.bz2).
Now, I will try to compile the kernel source... Im reading README.txt and I can see that you can do a couple of ways. You recommend me something? some change into the kernel?

EDIT: I need copy in the root directory (in the SD card) the source full and I will can't delete this directory after the installation? I say this because I have only 1GB capacity

Statistics: Posted by ea4ps — Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:57 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-30T12:41:25+01:00

ea4ps wrote:
Chaosmann wrote:Do you have installed the kernel sources from roboard.com or only the kernel?

Thank for your answer! Actually not! because always I tried download it I can't extract it. Now I'm going to download it again, I hope to be more lucky this time.
Take the opportunity to ask you something, is normal to install package or libreries with aptitude or is better to do compiling them?

Thank you!

tar xzfvp linux-2.6.29.1.tar.gz
With this command it should go.

I normaly prefere to install things over apt, yum or zypper. Depending on the System. In fact that they take care of the dependencies.

Statistics: Posted by Chaosmann — Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:41 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-30T12:30:17+01:00

Chaosmann wrote:
Do you have installed the kernel sources from roboard.com or only the kernel?

Thank for your answer! Actually not! because always I tried download it I can't extract it. Now I'm going to download it again, I hope to be more lucky this time.
Take the opportunity to ask you something, is normal to install package or libreries with aptitude or is better to do compiling them?

Thank you!

Statistics: Posted by ea4ps — Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:30 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-30T01:47:21+01:00

Do you have installed the kernel sources from roboard.com or only the kernel?

Statistics: Posted by Chaosmann — Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:47 am

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-29T17:45:45+01:00

Do you found the answer?

I'm in same situation. I would be very appreciated if you shared your solution.

Thank you

Statistics: Posted by ea4ps — Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:45 pm

miniPCI WLAN card on RoBoard with Ubuntu Linux

2009-12-13T20:15:36+01:00

I am also trying to use the wifi card, but having trouble installing the driver. I am running Debian 5.0.

I downloaded the VIA driver and tried to compile the driver, but getting this error. Same error for both "make clean" and "make install".

rb-100:/home/roboard/Drivers/Wifi/VT6655_Linux_src_v1.20.02_x86# make clean
set -e; for d in driver ; do make -C $d clean ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roboard/Drivers/Wifi/VT6655_Linux_src_v1.20.02_x86/driver'
Makefile:93: /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-vortex86dx/build/.config: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/modules/2.6.29.1-vortex86dx/build/.config'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roboard/Drivers/Wifi/VT6655_Linux_src_v1.20.02_x86/driver'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

Basically it says it cannot find the .config file.
/lib/modules/2.6.29.1-vortex86dx/build/.config

Any tips? Or, can anyone uploaded the compiled .ko file?

Thanks.

Statistics: Posted by crane — Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:15 pm