Dell Latitude D400 - no network connections

[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:

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'rootcopy=/porteus'

[Ed_P]

/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.

[Ed_P]

your file should be saved in:
/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
and then you could use:

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'rootcopy=/porteus'

Done. Didn't help. Still no networks showing.

[fanthom]

psinfo please.

[tome]

Done. Didn't help. Still no networks showing.

Maybe this setting doesn't work if is copied from fat/ntfs filesystem (wrong permissions).

[Ed_P]

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:~$

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.

[fanthom]

wl is still not blacklisted and i'm sure we were going through this before:
please use UNIQUE name for your rootcopy folder

[Ed_P]

please use UNIQUE name for your rootcopy folder

Ok. But...

your file should be saved in:
/mnt/sda3/porteus/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf
and then you could use:

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'rootcopy=/porteus'

Just doing what I am told.


-- update --

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/mnt/sda3/porteus/Etc/modprobe.d/broadcom_blacklist.conf

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rootcopy=/porteus/Etc

Still no networks.

[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).

[Ed_P]

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?

[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.

[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

[Ed_P]

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:~$ 

[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?

[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