[Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

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[Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby crashsite » 13 Jan 2015, 05:06

Hi everyone,

First of all, nice work with AlphaOS! It looks really powerful if I can get a few things to work...

So wireless setup can be done easily with a fresh AlphaOS installation. No problem adding any packages from the repository using makesb. I can even load Scoobytools.sb without any problems. But any folders that I squash to create an .sb module will prevent the wireless to come ON. This is really weird.

I tried the .bashrc functions from Scooby again (thanks for being so helpful on this forum by the way), and I can create the sb module with only the /root/.bashrc file in it. I can activate the module right away and no problems with the wireless. If the module gets activated at boot by placing it in the /modules folder of my usb key, then I can't get the wireless to activate. I tried with sbcomb, same issue. I tried with sq-session too, but still no luck.

I can see the "wlo1" device when I run ifconfig or iwconfig. It's obviously not connected... iwlwifi driver seems to be there when looking with lsmod.
Turning the wifi on with connman-ui doesn't seem to do anything. If I remove all my own .sb modules and reboot, then I get the Wifi working again.

Any clue on this weird behavior?

Note: I tried to squash just a blank test.txt file in /root. This module doesn't stop the wifi to work...
Note2: I tried just to setup the wifi parameters and save the setup with sq-session script. This module breaks the wifi...

Thanks !

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Re: wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby Scooby » 13 Jan 2015, 17:44

crashsite wrote:First of all, nice work with AlphaOS!

Yep, Simargl did really good

crashsite wrote:... from Scooby again (thanks for being so helpful on this forum by the way)

Thansk man, keep it coming, I need more :o




crashsite wrote:Any clue on this weird behavior?

Could be a permissions problem perhaps?
When you build the module by hand, on what filesystem are you on then?

Try building module by hand in /tmp

Maybe you could upload a .sb somewhere that breaks your system
so I can download it and investigate?

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Re: wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby crashsite » 14 Jan 2015, 05:06

Permissions : tried to copy the /root/.bashrc file to /tmp and recreated the folders from there. Set permission to read & write for everyone. The I used sbcomb to create the SB module... but still no luck, wifi just doesn't want to activate.

Note: I tried to remove all other modules and keep the one attached to this post only. I can confirm that with Connmand at least Wifi won't even start. I don't use a savefile, in case it makes any difference.

I am booting toram from a USB stick formatted in FAT32. I'm not sure if the FAT32 is still the filesystem once loaded in RAM with the live kit...??

Any help would be much appreciated!
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Re: wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby Scooby » 14 Jan 2015, 11:18

crashsite wrote:Permissions : tried to copy the /root/.bashrc file to /tmp and recreated the folders from there. Set permission to read & write for everyone. The I used sbcomb to create the SB module... but still no luck, wifi just doesn't want to activate.

Note: I tried to remove all other modules and keep the one attached to this post only. I can confirm that with Connmand at least Wifi won't even start. I don't use a savefile, in case it makes any difference.

Your setup is almost exactly like mine, Nothing strange with first inspection of .sb
is the dir were you keep modules( i.e. /mnt/live/memory/data ) ntfs or FAT32?

crashsite wrote:I am booting toram from a USB stick formatted in FAT32. I'm not sure if the FAT32 is still the filesystem once loaded in RAM with the live kit...??

it's a tmpfs or aufs, more like ext filesystem I guess

crashsite wrote:Any help would be much appreciated!

I will help
Your problem is very strange, I will have to try your module out meself.

my root of fs has

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 ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 190 root root 320 Jan 14 10:10 //


the root / in your sb is

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ls -ld
drwxrw-rw- 3 root root 60 Jan  9 00:03 ./

Try and make it r-x for users and others

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chmod 755 -R myDir2sbScript
sbcomb -m myDir2sbScript


Test this and report if it doesn't change anything
I will make further analysis

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[Solved] wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby crashsite » 15 Jan 2015, 05:32

wow... fixed just by changing the permissions!
Thanks Scooby!

Scooby wrote:is the dir were you keep modules( i.e. /mnt/live/memory/data ) ntfs or FAT32?

I assume that it is FAT32, same as the USB stick. Is there a way to confirm?

For reference, I did a frugal installation on a FAT32 usb stick. Booting with ToRam param, and not using savefiles. So at boot, only sb modules are loaded.

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chmod 755 -R myDir2sbScript
sbcomb -m myDir2sbScript

the chmod fixed the issue.

I updated the sbcomb and .bashrc scripts to perform a chmod 755 -R "$1" before the mksquashfs command. I can post the changes if someone want to see.

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Re: [Solved] wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby Scooby » 15 Jan 2015, 20:05

crashsite wrote:I assume that it is FAT32, same as the USB stick. Is there a way to confirm?

Do below to see what filesystems you've got on your system

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lsblk -f | grep -v loop


crashsite wrote:I updated the sbcomb and .bashrc scripts to perform a chmod 755 -R "$1" before the mksquashfs command. I can post the changes if someone want to see.


funny, I have never needed to change permissions when making bundle
Glad a solution presented itself

BTW I marked your first post as solved

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Re: [Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby crashsite » 16 Jan 2015, 04:32

Running the command

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lsblk -f | grep -v loop


I get:

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NAME   FSTYPE   LABEL      UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                             
|-sda1 ntfs     System     BC56BFAE56BF67B2                     
`-sda2 ntfs     Local Disk 7E72C70272C6BDE1                     
sdb                                                             
`-sdb1 vfat     PENDRIVE   2E1E-6B0B                            /mnt/sdb1
sr0                                                             


which shows what I have on my system... 1 HDD with two NTFS partition for Windoze and the USB stick in FAT32 to try AlphaOS.

Scooby wrote:funny, I have never needed to change permissions when making bundle


Well I had to be the first one... :? I guess you are using an ext4 filesystem?
I also have a few weird openbox freezes (task bar and menu would freeze, and doing Right click->Openbox->restart didn't help. Also makesb would fail (in fact arch2sb, the mksquashfs had issues) when I downloaded a large amount of packages. Like Wine and its 90+ dependencies.

I'll keep an eye on those permissions... thanks for the help.

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Re: [Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby Scooby » 16 Jan 2015, 19:14

crashsite wrote:Well I had to be the first one... :? I guess you are using an ext4 filesystem?
I also have a few weird openbox freezes (task bar and menu would freeze, and doing Right click->Openbox->restart didn't help. Also makesb would fail (in fact arch2sb, the mksquashfs had issues) when I downloaded a large amount of packages. Like Wine and its 90+ dependencies.


I have the same setup. With internal ntfs hdd and fat32 usb drive.

I place my modules in a dir on ntfs though

You have something odd, I made the bundle for wine without problem.
Though I use a modifed makesb that builds in /tmp and that is something like ext4

Do you have enough RAM?

I have 6GB

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Re: [Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby crashsite » 17 Jan 2015, 03:35

I have (only) 4 gig of RAM actually.
I'm running on an HP laptop Elitebook 8470p. I still have the Fn keys to get working.

Maybe I should change the makesb script to work in the /tmp folder also. I'll keep that in mind.

I was using Slax 7 for the past year and never had issues with this laptop. I know that it's not telling much ;)

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Re: [Solved]wifi stop working with any custom sb module

Postby Scooby » 17 Jan 2015, 13:04

4 gigs is plenty enough

I have

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 free --giga
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            5           2            3          1               0                1


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