Chromium OS from USB on Dell Inspiron 1545 won't detect networks

[David Attaway]

Does anyone have any advice on what might be happening in my instance? I properly boot from the USB to the setup screen, but my mouse does not function and no networks are detected. I can tab around to get to the different keyboard, language, and network menus. However, networks tells me that none are detected.

Any advice?

[Steve Pirk]

Try one of the older versions from linux.dell.com/files/cto to see if the network drivers from those work. Avoid the Feb20 version, as a couple of people have reported problems booting that image.

Which build are you using?

-- steve

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:45 PM, David Attaway <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone have any advice on what might be happening in my instance? I properly boot from the USB to the setup screen, but my mouse does not function and no networks are detected. I can tab around to get to the different keyboard, language, and network menus. However, networks tells me that none are detected.

Any advice?

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[David Attaway]

My image file came from this website. I'm in the process of downloading the 4/15/12 image from the link you provided me. Is there not a more up to date image between 4/15/12 and 2/20/13?

[David]

Update on that - I downloaded the image from your linked site and I do now have mouse capabilities, but still no wireless connectivity. Clicking the "Select a network" dropdown menu gives me "No networks are available"

[David]

Follow up question: tried to get in with a wired connection, but no go. Is there a way to boot with a wired connection?

[Steve Pirk]

I have not tried a wired connection in a year or so, so I am not sure. You might want to bring up a shell and do some poking around. _lsusb_ should give you an idea of what wireless card you have, and might show the device info for the wired connection. _ifconfig -a_ should also show something related to ethernet. If it doesn't, then the OS is not seeing the hardware, most likely due to missing drivers.

-- steve

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:08 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Follow up question: tried to get in with a wired connection, but no go. Is there a way to boot with a wired connection?

[David]

How do I get into a shell without being able to get into the OS? I can't get into the OS since I can't connect to the internet. 

[Steve Pirk]

Try typing ctrl-alt-right arrow (f2) and see if that brings up the console.

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:38 AM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

How do I get into a shell without being able to get into the OS? I can't get into the OS since I can't connect to the internet. 

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[David]

That was exactly it. I got into the console earlier today and was able to run those commands and boot up with wifi. Thanks for your help!

[Steve Pirk]

Sweet! I was going to also mention ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal window, but I think  Chromium has to finish booting up before that will work.

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

That was exactly it. I got into the console earlier today and was able to run those commands and boot up with wifi. Thanks for your help!

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[David]

That is correct. It has to boot into the "desktop" before CTRL+ALT+T works. The only thing bugging me now is mouse acceleration (which I've mentioned in other threads). Is there a known fix for how to speed it up?

[Steve Pirk]

The only thing I can think of at the moment is to try playing with the touchpad speed in Settings. I bet there is a config file somewhere that could be edited to increase speed or acceleration. I will ponder that one a bit.

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:48 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

That is correct. It has to boot into the "desktop" before CTRL+ALT+T works. The only thing bugging me now is mouse acceleration (which I've mentioned in other threads). Is there a known fix for how to speed it up?

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[David]

I've cranked it up in settings to no avail. I'm sure something will come up soon enough. There's probably a fix out there that I haven't stumbled on yet.

[Steve Pirk]

Your mouse wouldn't be a Microsoft mouse, would it? People are reporting that many Microsoft ones seem to have driver issues. In any case, it does seem to depend on which mouse you use ;-\

"I can confirm the same issue with some mice. The mouse is slow and pointer speed has no effect on a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1A USB and PS/2 Compatible. Plugging in a Logitech generic mouse (M90?) to the same setup gives me faster tracking and the pointer speed slider seems to make a difference. I plugged both mice into a Ubuntu 12.04 PC to get the lsusb -vvv output:"

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/JzczK_zzcn0

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:11 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've cranked it up in settings to no avail. I'm sure something will come up soon enough. There's probably a fix out there that I haven't stumbled on yet.

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[David]

It's the touchpad on my Dell laptop. It uses Synaptics drivers for Windows, and I BELIEVE I remember seeing something about that last night (but I was more concerned with getting wifi working at that point).

[Steve Pirk]

Check out the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and in particular the 50-touchpad-cmt.conf file. There was a thread back around Jan 11th where a ton of people were discussing the issues surrounding synaptics touchpad drivers.

Here is a like to that thread.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/topic/chromium-os-discuss/1YipTcKv4N4/discussion

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:20 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's the touchpad on my Dell laptop. It uses Synaptics drivers for Windows, and I BELIEVE I remember seeing something about that last night (but I was more concerned with getting wifi working at that point).

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[David]

The script didn't fix my slow touchpad, but it's still usable, so no big deal. I've also run the script to install Flash, and the browser shows that it's installed, but no videos will play. Could I be missing a step?

[Maarten van der Bent]

That sometimes happens when installing Flash. Just run this script again and see what happens. Sometimes that just fixes the problem:

https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126

2013/2/25 David <david.a...@gmail.com>

The script didn't fix my slow touchpad, but it's still usable, so no big deal. I've also run the script to install Flash, and the browser shows that it's installed, but no videos will play. Could I be missing a step?

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[David]

Thanks. Worked that time. Now if I can just get this dang touchpad cooperating I'll be up and running.

[Maddy]

Dear all

            I am new to chromium os right now I am trying to port panda board and here I am getting build package failed, and following are the error files which I am getting,

1.chromes-chrome-27.0.1421_rc-rc1.ebuild

2.media-plugins/o3d-179976-rc.ebuild 

So can any one help me

With regards

Maddy

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[vik....@yandex.com]

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26.02.13, 14:04, "Maddy" <madh...@gmail.com>":
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> Dear all
> О©╫ О©╫ О©╫ О©╫ О©╫ О©╫ I am new to chromium os right now I am trying to port panda board and here I am getting build package failed, and following are the error files which I am getting,
> 1.chromes-chrome-27.0.1421_rc-rc1.ebuild
> 2.media-plugins/o3d-179976-rc.ebuildО©╫

> So can any one help me
> With regardsMaddy
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> On 26-Feb-2013, at 7:13 AM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks. Worked that time. Now if I can just get this dang touchpad cooperating I'll be up and running.
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> >On Monday, February 25, 2013 5:24:20 AM UTC-5, Maarten wrote:That sometimes happens when installing Flash. Just run this script again and see what happens. Sometimes that just fixes the problem:
> >>https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126
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> >>2013/2/25 David <david.a...@gmail.com>

> >>The script didn't fix my slow touchpad, but it's stillО©╫usable, so no big deal. I've also run the script to install Flash, and the browser shows that it's installed, but no videos will play. Could I be missing a step?

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[Maddy]

Hi all

I am getting build_packages error when I am porting to panda board so can any one help me in this

Maddy

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On 26-Feb-2013, at 11:46 AM, vik....@yandex.com wrote:

> Wxddss
>
> 26.02.13, 14:04, "Maddy" <madh...@gmail.com>":
>>
>> Dear all

>> I am new to chromium os right now I am trying to port panda board and here I am getting build package failed, and following are the error files which I am getting,
>> 1.chromes-chrome-27.0.1421_rc-rc1.ebuild
>> 2.media-plugins/o3d-179976-rc.ebuild

>> So can any one help me
>> With regardsMaddy
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On 26-Feb-2013, at 7:13 AM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. Worked that time. Now if I can just get this dang touchpad cooperating I'll be up and running.
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 25, 2013 5:24:20 AM UTC-5, Maarten wrote:That sometimes happens when installing Flash. Just run this script again and see what happens. Sometimes that just fixes the problem:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/rikels/4031126
>>>>
>>>> 2013/2/25 David <david.a...@gmail.com>

>>>> The script didn't fix my slow touchpad, but it's still usable, so no big deal. I've also run the script to install Flash, and the browser shows that it's installed, but no videos will play. Could I be missing a step?

[Mike Frysinger]

this thread has no relation to the panda board.  please do not hijack existing threads.  start a new one rather than just hitting "reply all".

-mike

[Rashed Rab]

Hi David,

I also have a dell inspiron 1545 and I tried booting chromium os from usb. The touchpad doesn't work on setup and I am stuck on the select a network option. Could you explain a little bit in details how you booted up with wifi?

Thank you

[Lucas Felix Carvalho]

Hi too David,

I´ve this problem too, running in a VMWare machine .. Could you explain to us how you fix it?

[Floyd Stalinski]

I'm currently having the same issue as well. When I boot from usb, I am able to select my language, my keyboard setup, but under network, it says "No networks are available"  I've tried pressing F2 to enable my wifi, I've tried using the ctrl-alt-right arrow, the ctrl-alt-F2, and I've even tried to connect through a Ethernet cable. Still no network able. I am trying to use the 4/20 build, and will soon try an earlier build.  Any help???

[Ric S]

You r lucky, i didn't even get my trackpad working!
The network prob because their is a broadcom chip in most dell devices and it doesn't work with chromium os out of the box!!

[Prathmesh Prabhu Chromium]

I'm probably jumping a thread midway here, but what builds are you using on your Dell? If they are developer builds, the ctl-alt-right arrow (Note that right arrow is really the F2 key on most keyboards. It is not the right arrow by the number pad) will take you to VT2 where you can login as root.

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Ric S <sahaj...@gmail.com> wrote:

You r lucky, i didn't even get my trackpad working!
The network prob because their is a broadcom chip in most dell devices and it doesn't work with chromium os out of the box!!

[Floyd Stalinski]

The problem is.... When I get to dev mode to ligin as chronos with the password face punch, It won't let me enter a password. It will let me enter the username. I press enter. Then it takes me to password.... But it doesn't work. Press enter again and I get a message that says incorrect login/password

[Mike Frysinger]

what do you mean "doesn't work"? try test0000 as the password.

if you got the image from somewhere, then you should check with them to see what the default password is.
-mike

On Sep 7, 2014 1:18 PM, "Floyd Stalinski" <floyd.s...@hesperiausd.org> wrote:

The problem is.... When I get to dev mode to ligin as chronos with the password face punch, It won't let me enter a password.  It will let me enter the username. I press enter. Then it takes me to password.... But it doesn't work. Press enter again and I get a message that says incorrect login/password

[Brandon]

i just got chromium and now i am having the same problem. From what screen do i press F2?

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

You type it when you see the regular Chromium OS UI, e.g. the login screen or the network and language selection screen.

- Bartosz

[Brandon Tietz]

I tried typing it from that screen but nothing happend.

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[Bruce]

Hi, I am completely new to this, so please forgive the obvious questions.  I've installed Hexxeh's Vanilla chromium build on an old Dell Studio.  Everything is working except the wifi.  My two questions are, will the wifi work on this build?  And how do I input the recommended commands above?  I can open up the terminal and shell, but I am literally just typing in _ifconfig_a-  but it doesn't work.  Am I missing some other part of the command that I should know?

Thanks.

On Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 1:46:30 PM UTC-8, Steve Pirk wrote:

Sweet! I was going to also mention ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal window, but I think  Chromium has to finish booting up before that will work.

-- steve

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, David <david.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

That was exactly it. I got into the console earlier today and was able to run those commands and boot up with wifi. Thanks for your help!

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[Sa'id Simon Meyer]

Hi I'm having a problem detecting wifi networks. I am trying out the Chrome OS on my macbook by booting up from a USB. i am able to connect with an ethernet cable but i am not able to pick up any wifi networks at work or mobile wifi (from Iphone).

Any suggestions for a fix ?

Thanks 

Simon

On Sunday, 24 February 2013 06:45:26 UTC+2, David wrote:

Does anyone have any advice on what might be happening in my instance? I properly boot from the USB to the setup screen, but my mouse does not function and no networks are detected. I can tab around to get to the different keyboard, language, and network menus. However, networks tells me that none are detected.

Any advice?

[Edward Benyukhis]

What wireless adapter do you have on your Inspiron box?  I was able to fix issues with two Lati devices one with an Atheros10K and the other with Intel's AC826x...

Ed-

[Andrew Holder]

I have the same issue with Arnold the Bat latest "Special" build on my MBP 2011. I used the special build because its supposed to support Broadcom cards, but I am not able to get past the setup due to wifi being disabled, and unable to turn on. Cloudready and FlintOS work though. I just like the idea of running a build closer perhaps to Vanilla versus the others. People say that the firmware or drivers need to be enabled for broadcom devices, but thats beyond my understanding at the moment. I have Broadcom 43xxx.