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tsylvain

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Registered: 2025-05-25

Posts: 10

Connection WIFI

Bonjour les amis.
J'ai installé Q4os sur un PC de 2005  ( HP Pavillon en Windows XP )  juste pour le fun et ... ça marche !!!
Par contre , impossible d'avoir une connexion wifi.
En fait je n'ai même pas "Wireless connection..." sur si je clique sur l'icone "mappemonde" en bas à droite de mon écran.
J'ai bien essayé de creer une IP manuelle mais sans résultat.
Avez vous une idée ?
Merci.

Hello friends.
I installed Q4os on a 2005 PC (HP Pavilion running Windows XP) just for the fun and... it works!!!
However, I can't get a Wi-Fi connection.
In fact, I don't even get "Wireless connection..." when I click on the "world map" icon in the bottom right corner of my screen.
I tried creating a manual IP address, but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

walter

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From: France

Registered: 2025-05-26

Posts: 13

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Re: Connection WIFI

Bonjour tsylvain,

la connexion wifi est automatique sous windows pour les Pc de bureau, mais pas du tout sous linux ! Certaines clés wifi  permettent de capter la box sous linux, et d'autres non . Il faut chercher ! ( par exemple les clés NetGear )
J'ai creusé le problème pendant longtemps et finalement j'ai acheté une ralonge de 10 m pour connecter mon Pc directement à ma box .
Et c'est mieux, surtout pour le débit ...

Avec un ordinateur portable, la connexion wifi se fait automatiquement, même sous Linux ! Et sans clé wifi .

Wifi connection is automatic under windows for a desktop computer, but not at all under linux ! Some wifi keys allow you to connect to the box under Linux, but others don't . You have to look ! ( for example : NetGear wifi key )
I dug into the problem for a long time and finally bought a 10 m extension cable to connect my PC directly to my box.
And it's better, especially for the speed ...

With a laptop, the wifi connection happens automatically, even under Linux !

Last edited by walter (2025-05-31 15:27)

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,407

Re: Connection WIFI

Hello friends.
I installed Q4os on a 2005 PC (HP Pavilion running Windows XP) just for the fun and... it works!!!
However, I can't get a Wi-Fi connection.
In fact, I don't even get "Wireless connection..." when I click on the "world map" icon in the bottom right corner of my screen.

Run

inxi -Fxxxmprz

and copy/paste the results back here.

Also please run

rfkill list

and copy/paste results
If any of the results show 'blocked' then run

rfkill unblock all

HP laptops of that era used a combined bluetooth\wifi card. After using windows they used to 'jam' the firmware off unless re-enabled under windows. The way round that was to just go into the BIOS and re-set to default. That then allowed the wifi card to work.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 5,007

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Re: Connection WIFI

@tsylvain
In addition to @bin advice we recommend you to follow https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4698 and post back the result.

crosscourt

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From: Wash DC

Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 2,372

Re: Connection WIFI

It was a pain back then bin.

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