Legacy OS 2.1 WPA2 now Supported - Testers needed

[greyowl]

Here is the dmesg log for your information:

Linux version 2.6.16 (root@slax) (gcc version 3.4.6) #95 Wed May 17 10:16:21 GMT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ff30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff30000 - 000000001ff40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff40000 - 000000001fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 130864
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f9e10
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x11000305 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30000
ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x11000305 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x11000305 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff30300
ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I OEMBIOS 0x11000305 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1ff40040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 1OOXX 1OOXX001 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:df7c0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: vga=769 changes=slaxsave.dat max_loop=255 initrd=boot/initrd.gz init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=4444 root=/dev/ram0 rw BOOT_IMAGE=boot/vmlinuz
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2605.036 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 510364k/523456k available (4166k kernel code, 12464k reserved, 1287k data, 488k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5219.44 BogoMIPS (lpj=10438882)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1315k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by vt8235 PM
PCI quirk: region 0400-040f claimed by vt8235 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: dde00000-dfefffff
PREFETCH window: d9d00000-ddcfffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
NTFS driver 2.1.26 [Flags: R/O].
JFS: nTxBlock = 3999, nTxLock = 31995
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xda000000, mapped to 0xe0a80000, using 600k, total 4096k
vesafb: mode is 640x480x8, linelength=640, pages=11
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:02e5
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4444K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 255 devices)
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.6.10)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A]: no GSI
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 15
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP0411N, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-RW 48X16, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-4 May 4 2006 18:40:51)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= optionsEmulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.1
Copyright(c) 2004-2005 Emulex. All rights reserved.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
sym0: <810a> rev 0x23 at pci 0000:00:0a.0 irq 10
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi2 : sym-2.2.2
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.7 (Release Date: Mon Nov 14 12:27:22 EST 2005)
megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.007.
nsp32: loading...
ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.1.2 (February 8, 2006)
libata version 1.20 loaded.
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.323
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316
Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.07
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.07
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.03.07
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.03.07
usbmon: debugfs is not available
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 AC97 MC97 USB1 USB2 USB3 EHCI ILAN SLPB
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 488k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering unionfs 20060423-1600
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
NTFS volume version 3.1.
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Adding 2048276k swap on /dev/hdb4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2048276k
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
fuse init (API version 7.6)
NTFS volume version 3.1.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

[rokytnji]

Durn, not one mention of Broadcom in there or wlan0 at all. That is a wonderment.

Just a working example of what I was looking for in your dmesg readout.

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[   22.753423] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   22.775736] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   23.402732] init: samba-ad-dc main process (815) terminated with status 1
[   23.750911] wlan0: authenticate with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44
[   23.764046] wlan0: send auth to d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 1/3)
[   23.766144] wlan0: authenticated
[   23.768063] wlan0: associate with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 1/3)
[   23.771045] wlan0: RX AssocResp from d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
[   23.771148] wlan0: associated

This laptop works wirelessly. You have no wlan0 entries at all in yours?
There is no

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rfkill list all

command in Legacy OS for me to see if your wireless is hard blocked via bios or a hotkey in your computer. To be honest. I am out of ideas, since we cannot find any error messages anywhere.

Sorry.

Going out on a limb here.

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 cd /usr/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxi

Copy and paste that in terminal twice and run it. Second time is download and install the man pages. It is system info script I use in every distro I install. When done.

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inxi -F

Post the readout in next post. It will show which broadcom driver you are running and your Broadcom wireless chip. I have posted about installing this script before on this forum.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53986

If afeared. I will be installing this on my LegacyOS install also later on. I am a busy dude
this weekend on other stuff.

@John

I have to disconnect a computer from a hard line to proceed with your instructions.
I have other things going on. So give me some time to get back with you on the module
installs. Your screeny shows g model cards. If I have to. I have a spare Wireless G pcmcia card I can throw in to test this also. No big deal. But it will be later on when I do this.

Happy Trails, Rok

[john biles]

Hello rokytnji,
Looking at your post it looked like you wanted a Ralink Driver not a Broadcom Driver? If you read back through this post you'll see a link to download a Driver for Broadcom B43. There is lots of info in the post that might be of use to you so it's worth reading.
Thanks John

P.S I'm always learning and are the first to admit I don't have all the answers. Legacy OS becomes better as my knowledge grows. Over the years I've asked for help from the forum, but as Legacy OS 2's base gets older and older very little help is now provided. Also a lot of forum members who were active back in 2007 no longer post here. I don't know if they even visit the forum anymore. So sadly the knowledge they have has been lost.

I learnt long ago Legacy OS is my responsibility and no one else's. If someone is sitting here laughing thinking to themselves "How dumb the answers staring them right in the face!" please post your wisdom here!

[starhawk]

Hey John (good name, BTW -- my father is named John!) -- if I can derail this thread briefly (sorry! I can either PM you or start a new thread if you'd prefer) but I want your opinion on something.

I have a Dell Latitude CPi D300XT (link is to specs, with one correction -- max RAM is 256mb, not 128mb as listed). Mine has a 20gb hard drive and 128mb RAM. (I'd max out the RAM if I could -- but it takes a weird variant on PC100 that's EDO -- regular PC100 won't work, and the EDO version is rare and incredibly expensive. As you might imagine, I really can't justify spending ~$100 on that clunker, and that's what it would cost. No joke.)

The sound card is known to not work in Pups later than 412 (IIRC -- might be 420 but I really don't think so) except for Precise 571 Retro. I have a Belkin CardBus WiFi card (sorry, I don't remember the model info) I can test your wireless utility in -- my home network uses WPA2 encryption.

So my question is... how do you think LegacyOS 2 would perform on that hardware? I want it to do the basic set of "this is what you do with a computer" stuff -- word processing, email, and browsing. If I can be a little extravagant, YouTube (at 240p) and some occasional light Flash gaming (nothing as intense even as FarmVille, just the sort of junk that Google trawls up -- free card games and Mahjongg, that sort of crap), both in the browser. I really don't expect those to be possible, though. Not on THAT hardware.

I'd try it out myself -- but I'm away from home right now (visiting my father) and this Dell stayed behind. I'll be back sometime Thursday, but I'm an impatient fellow so I thought I'd ask

[john biles]

Hello starhawk,
I have Legacy OS 2.1 installed on a 300Mhz Pentium 128mb's of Ram PC and it's usable. Give it a go you've got nothing to lose but a whole lot to gain if it works! John

[starhawk]

Soon as I get home, I will!

Thanks!

[rokytnji]

My test report so far. My wireless N pcmcia with a

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      Card-2: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:0601
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter> 

is just too new for the
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 842#851842

So i swapped out cards and am now testing with this one "Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA Cardbus .ver6" with these internals.

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Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 BusID: 06:00.0

Which the module assistant has listed. rt61. So I load it and save it.

I pick Setup>Network and Broadband connections. It finds me "rao" as the wireless. I pick scan. Everything stops. But the mouse and keyboard work. Loading bar is stuck 1/2 way while scanning and nothing changes.

This is with ethO hard line attached or not attached. ethO never saw a connection either? Anyhows. Used Ctrl+Alt+Bkspace to log out of X. "xwin" or xwin icewm" would give me the blue back ground but no taskbar or right click icewm menu. So I log out of X again and "reboot".

My rt61 module is saved on boot. So next I move on to trying trying out
Network>LegacyOS wireless assistant.

Believe it or not I get a extra pop up window saying things may not work properly because of sudo and I have the option of close or hitting OK buttons. Hitting either one freezes up everything again but the mouse/trackpad and keyboard. Weird is all I can say as md5sum is good
and cd burn was good.

I think anyways. Because anything is possible. In my experience.
Sorry I am getting no where . I thought after switching cards I would be OK. But apparently not. I won't dig into why Legacy OS sees my pcmcia usb cardbus . But does not not recognize a usb drive plugged into it.

Seems I have enough problems at the current rate. RT61 is loaded. It is the right driver. rao is seen. Dougals, (I am guessing), and LegacyOS wireless assistant is not playing nice with me it seems.

At least I do not get the wireless assistant sees no wireless interface pop up window. And will close now.

[john biles]

Hello rokytnji,
To mount a USB stick you need to do it manually. Next to the 1 in the menu bar at the bottom of the screening you'll see a white and blue icon. Clicking it will give you 3 ways to mount a usb, cd etc.
On your WiFi problem. I currently don't have a solution. Sorry!

[starhawk]

Hello starhawk,
I have Legacy OS 2.1 installed on a 300Mhz Pentium 128mb's of Ram PC and it's usable. Give it a go you've got nothing to lose but a whole lot to gain if it works! John

Just to wrap this up -- just tried it and it's very much not a winner. No sound, and it seeks from CD for several tens of seconds to even bring up the Menu. Sorry, man. Sticking with Precise 571 Retro.

[john biles]

Hello everyone,
Just brought online 2 brand new still in their box D-Link AirPlus XremeG DWL-G650 WiFi Cardbus Adapters for $14.95 AUD each delivered. If your Laptop has a "Cardbus" slot there is no reason to stop you getting your old laptop online with WPA2 encryption. I can tell you my wifes Broadcom based WiFi late model Ubuntu Laptop loses wireless connection regularly while my old Laptop running this WiFi Adapter doesn't and that's why I brought another 2 spares.

So for the price of a "Large Big Mac" meal you too can get that old Laptop online with Legacy OS 2.1
I can tell you Legacy OS 2.1 100% supports WiFi using this Adapter!

[darry1966]

[quote="john biles"]Hello everyone,
Just brought online 2 brand new still in their box D-Link AirPlus XremeG DWL-G650 WiFi Cardbus Adapters for $14.95 AUD each delivered. If your Laptop has a "Cardbus" slot there is no reason to stop you getting your old laptop online with WPA2 encryption. I can tell you my wifes Broadcom based WiFi late model Ubuntu Laptop loses wireless connection regularly while my old Laptop running this WiFi Adapter doesn't and that's why I brought another 2 spares.

Hi John Yes I use one of these on my Thinkpad it works well and very fast.

[john biles]

Hello darry1966,
Thanks for confirming the same adapter works on your Laptop.

Out of interest how is life online using Legacy OS 2.1 I personally experience some pages that have too much content in them which fill up the ram a bit too much slowing things down a bit. What about yourself. What's good and bad.

[darry1966]

Sorry John haven'ț been here in a while, I meant this adaptor works with Linux in general, sorry I donț actually use LegacyOS.