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Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 10:05
by fanthom
i can bet that you did not preserve correct path. your file should be saved in:
/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
and then you could use:
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 16:09
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
No, I did not store it in a preserved path. I will try that. Thank you
fanthom.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 30 Nov 2014, 02:11
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:your file should be saved in:
/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
and then you could use:
Done. Didn't help. Still no networks showing.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 30 Nov 2014, 09:41
by fanthom
psinfo please.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 30 Nov 2014, 11:35
by tome
Done. Didn't help. Still no networks showing.
Maybe this setting doesn't work if is copied from fat/ntfs filesystem (wrong permissions).
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 18:41
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:psinfo please.
http://pastebin.com/ChdjWYsj
plus:
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guest@porteus:~$ psinfo
Please enter root's password below
Password:
All gathered information are stored in /home/guest/Desktop/psinfo.txt
If you want the Team Porteus to trouble shooting a problem then please upload
this file to pastebin.com and post a link in our forums.
guest@porteus:~$ ./bootmode.sh
/mnt/sda3
Porteus-v3.0.1
quiet from=/ISOs/Porteus-RazorQT-v3.0.1-i486.iso rootcopy=/porteus changes=EXIT:/porteus/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus/Modules volume=40
guest@porteus:~$ ls /porteus
/bin/ls: cannot access /porteus: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/
Guest/ Modules/ changes/ debug.txt* etc/ modsavedat/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/
modprobe.d/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d
broadcom_blacklist.conf*
guest@porteus:~$ cat /mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
# Default driver for supporting broadcom wifi chipsets is proprietary broadcom-sta (wl.ko).
# Please refer to 'Broadcom wifi under Porteus' HOWTO
# in case when you want to use the opensource drivers (b43/brcmsmac):
# http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1099
#
# Blacklist opensource drivers they wont interfere with wl.ko:
blacklist ssb
blacklist bcma
blacklist b43
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist wl
guest@porteus:~$
tome wrote:Maybe this setting doesn't work if is copied from fat/ntfs filesystem (wrong permissions).
An interesting, and troubling, thought. I hope you're wrong.
BTW The laptop does connect to the Internet if cabled in.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 18:52
by fanthom
wl is still not blacklisted and i'm sure we were going through this before:
please use UNIQUE name for your rootcopy folder
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 19:07
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:please use UNIQUE name for your rootcopy folder
Ok. But...
fanthom wrote: your file should be saved in:
/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
and then you could use:
Just doing what I am told.
-- update --
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/mnt/sda3/porteus/Etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
Still no networks.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 19:54
by fanthom
debugging is quite simple:
you have to make sure that modified file from rootcopy lands in the /etc/modprobe.d folder. if it's not there then you are doing something wrong.
tip: currently your file is saved as /modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf in union (/etc is missing).
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 23:21
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:debugging is quite simple:
If you have a clue as to what you are doing.
If I change 'rootcopy=/porteus/Etc' back to 'rootcopy=/porteus' then won't the file will be saved as Etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf which does not match etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf and I'm back to where I started.
If I change /mnt/sda3/porteus/Etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf to be
/mnt/sda3/porteus/Rootcopy/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf then change 'rootcopy=/porteus/Etc' to 'rootcopy=/porteus/Rootcopy' then the union will be right?
I can't have /mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf and 'rootcopy=/porteus' because the name isn't unique. Can I just rename broadcom_blacklist.conf to broadcom_blacklist2.conf or Broadcom_Blacklist.conf?
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 23:32
by brokenman
Back up a few steps. Your problem is that you boot from an ISO. Therefore you want to use a folder somewhere on your system as a rootcopy folder. This is from the cheatcodes.txt
rootcopy=/path/to_folder/with_files
... Copy files from specified directory directly to the live
filesystem. This directory will be used instead of the
traditional /porteus/rootcopy.
Example: 'rootcopy=/mnt/sda5/porteus-files'
So .... make a folder called 'porteus-files' somewhere on your hard drive. /mnt/sda5/porteus-files
Inside this folder create the heirarchy: etc/modprobe.d/
Your complete path to your blacklist file will be: /mnt/sda5/porteus-files/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
Now make your cheatcode: rootcopy=/mnt/sda5/porteus-files
All files below /mnt/sda5/porteus-files/ will be copied into the live files system when you reboot. Done.
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 23:45
by Ed_P
This didn't work either.
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guest@porteus:~$ psinfo
Please enter root's password below
Password:
All gathered information are stored in /home/guest/Desktop/psinfo.txt
If you want the Team Porteus to trouble shooting a problem then please upload
this file to pastebin.com and post a link in our forums.
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/
Guest/ Modules/ Rootcopy/ changes/ debug.txt* modsavedat/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/Rootcopy/
etc/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/Rootcopy/etc/
modprobe.d/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda3/porteus/Rootcopy/etc/modprobe.d
broadcom_blacklist.conf*
guest@porteus:~$ ./bootmode.sh
/mnt/sda3
Porteus-v3.0.1
quiet from=/ISOs/Porteus-RazorQT-v3.0.1-i486.iso rootcopy=/porteus/Rootcopy changes=EXIT:/porteus/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus/Modules volume=40
guest@porteus:~$
http://pastebin.com/DhTuEybY
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 01 Dec 2014, 23:49
by Ed_P
brokenman wrote:Now make your cheatcode: rootcopy=/mnt/sda5/porteus-files
All files below /mnt/sda5/porteus-files/ will be copied into the live files system when you reboot. Done.
Thanks
brokenman. I will try this.
Do note that my cheatcode for extramod= is extramod=/porteus/Modules without the /mnt/sda3/ part.
== update==
That didn't work either.
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guest@porteus:~$ ./bootmode.sh
/mnt/sda3
Porteus-v3.0.1
quiet from=/ISOs/Porteus-RazorQT-v3.0.1-i486.iso rootcopy=/mnt/sda3/porteus/Rootcopy changes=EXIT:/porteus/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus/Modules volume=40
guest@porteus:~$
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 00:47
by brokenman
Please try it exactly like I've put it, except change the sda5 to sda3 (or preferably a linux file system). I'm not concerned with extramod right now since the goal is to get rootcopy working is it not?
Re: Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections
Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 21:08
by Ed_P
Didn't work.
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guest@porteus:~$ psinfo
Please enter root's password below
Password:
All gathered information are stored in /home/guest/Desktop/psinfo.txt
If you want the Team Porteus to trouble shooting a problem then please upload
this file to pastebin.com and post a link in our forums.
guest@porteus:~$ ls -R /mnt/sda3/porteus-files
/mnt/sda3/porteus-files:
etc/
/mnt/sda3/porteus-files/etc:
modprobe.d/
/mnt/sda3/porteus-files/etc/modprobe.d:
broadcom_blacklist.conf*
guest@porteus:~$ ./bootmode.sh
/mnt/sda3
Porteus-v3.0.1
quiet from=/ISOs/Porteus-RazorQT-v3.0.1-i486.iso rootcopy=/mnt/sda3/porteus-files changes=EXIT:/porteus/changes/porteussave.dat extramod=/porteus/Modules volume=40
guest@porteus:~$
http://pastebin.com/QDTfbZUb