Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[moxalt]

Sorry. I'm doing all of this through the mailing lists- when you said
attachment I was expecting to find and *e-mail* attachment. Sorry.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

https://u.teknik.io/WtARxF.png

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[moxalt]

> # ifconfig wlan0 essid ATT2G3X2z5
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>   SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation already in progress.

You probably have some sort of WLAN autoconnection set up. I didn't know
Trisquel did that. By the way, it's iwconfig for this step, not
ifconfig.

Anyway, congratulations on getting it working. You'll have to tell me
whether Trisquel Mini did indeed appear on boot.

PS. You mentioned attached dmesg output- there were no attachments. Are
you sure you sent some? Maybe Drupal stripped them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

Success!  I now have WiFi.  I'm hoping that Trisquel Mini will appear when I  
reboot.


I had strange messages when I booted my computer.  They looked quite bad. The  
dmesg output is attached.



# ifconfig up
up: error fetching interface information: Device not found


However, ifconfig wlan0 up did work.


# ifconfig wlan0 essid ATT2G3X2z5
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
 SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation already in progress.


Ping to example.net succeeded.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[moxalt]

Wunderbar. That means you can avoid having to configure wpa_supplicant.
Boot the installed system, and (I'm assuming it's in text mode, since
trisquel-mini contains the DE as well) run the following (as root):

ifconfig  up

In the vast majority of cases this will be wlan0, so:

ifconfig wlan0 up

If not you can find out by running ifconfig without arguments, and it
will list your network interfaces. Then:

iwconfig wlan0 essid 

replacing  with the name of your wireless network.

dhclient wlan0

This will assign your computer an IP fetched from a DHCP server, and is
the last step. You should now have a network connection, if your wifi is
open as you say. Try:

apt-get update
apt-get install trisquel-mini

and see if it now works.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

yes

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

But
first, is your wifi network open, or does it use WEP or WPA?


Open.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[moxalt]

If you really want to try and follow the Live CD+decryption+chroot
route, then by all means feel free, but chrooting into encrypted
partitions can be really finnicky, and that is the cause of all those
weird errors (the chrooting itself, which is hardly ideal, and the
encryption).

There is a far easier way to escape from all this pandemonium. But
first, is your wifi network open, or does it use WEP or WPA? This will
determine the tools required.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

Bump.

Demoted my own post by commenting on another thread.

[Trisquel-users] Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini, lost WiFi

[csh]

I broke my system.  I tried the following.  I am stuck.  I need help.

Started on Trisquel Mini.  Uninstalled metapackage trisquel-mini.


sudo apt-get remove trisquel-mini


No NetworkManager, lost WiFi.  Solution: reinstall NetworkManager without  
WiFi.


Booted live Trisquel.  Decrypted Trisquel Mini root volume.

Chrooted to Trisquel Mini root volume.


sudo chroot /media/trisquel/ee2acd05-1b50-470f-add3-cebc0298a5ee/ bash


Installed NetworkManager in chroot.


root@trisquel:/# sudo apt-get install --yes network-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  iputils-arping libgnome-bluetooth11 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-gtk-common
  libnm-gtk0 network-manager-gnome network-manager-pptp
  network-manager-pptp-gnome pptp-linux wpasupplicant
Suggested packages:
  gnome-bluetooth network-manager-openconnect-gnome
  network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome wpagui
  libengine-pkcs11-openssl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  iputils-arping libgnome-bluetooth11 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-gtk-common
  libnm-gtk0 network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-pptp
  network-manager-pptp-gnome pptp-linux wpasupplicant
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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