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Post subject:  Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:23 pm |
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The last time I had Ubuntu on my spare laptop, the wireless card worked fine, and there were no issues getting on wirelessly.
So after a long time playing with the Win7 RC, I thought I'd give Ubuntu 9.10 a run to see what was new. And it won't detect the wireless card on the laptop, alas.
Any suggestions? It's a Dell Inspiron 1300 with the factory wireless adapter.
Thanks for any ideas,
Mowog
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It should work fine. If the laptop has a button to turn wireless on and off, try that button.
Also, did you use the upgrade or is it a fresh install ?
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Thanks, Bert. It's a fresh install. I downloaded the ISO for 9.10, burned it to CD, and booted from that to install, thus wiping the Win7 installation that was on there already.
As for the wireless switch, there isn't a mechanical switch as such. You can toggle the antenna on/off using Fn-F2, but I thought of that already and tried it... no luck.
Dropping down the Network menu from the menu bar shows Wireless Networks as "disconnected."
If I go to System/Preferences/Network Connections, I see that wireless defaults to "connect automatically." but it's not happening. I have a very strong wireless access point here in my classroom, and all of my student PCs connect full-strength. So there's definitely a network present, but the capability on the laptop isn't working for some reason.
And again, it worked fine the last time I had Ubuntu on this laptop. Just for grins, I think I'll do a re-install and see what happens. I have the laptop on my side desk, and it can be doing its thing while I do real work...
Later,
Gryf
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if that doesn't work, could you please supply me with the terminal outputs of the following commands:
sudo lspci
sudo lsusb
sudo ifconfig
sudo iwconfig
sudo lshw
(the last one will output a lot text)
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Hi again - the reinstall went fine, but we still have no wireless. So - Here you go: sudo lspci: Code: gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for gryf:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ ^C
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo lsusb: Code: gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig: Code: sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:95:51:56
inet addr:10.1.5.16 Bcast:10.1.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:fe95:5156/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6942 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:930199 (930.1 KB) TX bytes:8295 (8.2 KB)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig: Code: sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ sudo lshw: Code: sudo lshw
gryf-laptop
description: Portable Computer
product: ME051
vendor: Dell Inc.
serial: DR2B891
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
configuration: boot=normal chassis=portable uuid=44454C4C-5200-1032-8042-C4C04F383931
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 0GD366
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
serial: .DR2B891.CN701665CN081N.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Dell Inc.
physical id: 0
version: A04 (12/22/2005)
size: 64KiB
capacity: 448KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 400
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.13.8
slot: Microprocessor
size: 1733MHz
capacity: 2130MHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 133MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts est tm2 cpufreq
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 700
size: 8KiB
capacity: 8KiB
capabilities: internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 701
size: 2MiB
capacity: 2MiB
clock: 66MHz (15.0ns)
capabilities: pipeline-burst internal varies unified
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1000
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
vendor: 7F98000000000000
physical id: 0
serial: A90A9665
slot: DIMM_A
size: 1GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
physical id: 1
slot: DIMM_B
width: 64 bits
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
resources: irq:0
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:dff00000-dff7ffff ioport:eff8(size=8) memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) memory:dfec0000-dfefffff
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:dff80000-dfffffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:dfebc000-dfebffff
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:24
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:25 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:dfc00000-dfdfffff ioport:d0000000(size=2097152)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:bf80(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:17 ioport:bf60(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:bf40(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:bf20(size=32)
*-usb:4
description: USB Controller
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:b0000000-b00003ff
*-pci:2
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: d3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: memory:dfb00000-dfbfffff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:14:22:95:51:56
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=10.1.5.16 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:18 memory:dfbfc000-dfbfdfff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
resources: irq:17 memory:dfbfe000-dfbfffff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
logical name: scsi0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:16 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:bfa0(size=16)
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9408114A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 8.03
serial: 3LE1P6RC
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=41ab2316
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: 2c12a9f5-fa2c-459b-a2f1-bc0c10ddc596
size: 35GiB
capacity: 35GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2009-10-29 08:34:43 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/x�Y�e#�0����;P�#�iW����������e#��#�#��Y��e#��%�� modified=2009-10-29 08:50:52 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2009-11-04 09:12:31 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 1608MiB
capacity: 1608MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 1608MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: CDRW/DVD TSL462C
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: DE01
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-battery
product: DELL WD4145C
vendor: Sanyo
physical id: 1
slot: Sys. Battery Bay
capacity: 52000mWh
configuration: voltage=11.1V
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:5a:6d:c5
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
gryf@gryf-laptop:~$ Thanks! Mowog
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Have you tried updating your system and running the hardware drivers/restricted drivers application over wired network ? (you need the b43 restricted driver for your wireless, just like I do).
You can find the app I'm talking about in System -> Administration
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<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Have you tried updating your system and running the hardware drivers/restricted drivers application over wired network ? (you need the b43 restricted driver for your wireless, just like I do).
You can find the app I'm talking about in System -> Administration<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, been there about three times already. The downloads failed every time, and I see now that it was an issue with our proxy server causing the problem - even though I've got my web access set through the proxy, and am able to browse the web okay in Ubuntu.
What I'll do is take my laptop home this afternoon and use a wired connection at home in another attempt to get any missing updates and drivers.
More news as it happens,
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Hm --
Re-tried at home; loaded all updates successfully, and although when you click the little network drop-down doodad from the menu bar it shows both the wired and wireless connections active, the wireless is still nonfunctional.
Gaahhh.
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Gryf wrote: Re-tried at home; loaded all updates successfully, and although when you click the little network drop-down doodad from the menu bar it shows both the wired and wireless connections active, the wireless is still nonfunctional. <! :#FF8C00--> "color:#FF8C00"><!--/ > Thank you Mowog for convincing that Ubuntu is still not ready for my uses.  <!--colorc--> <!--/colorc-->
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have you tried the restricted driver/hardware driver thing at home ? (there's the part you're missing)
@Jonathan: it's funny, but all my PCs always work out of the box, all things I need are offered to me on first boot and then I'm ready to go
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Bert_2 wrote: @Jonathan: it's funny, but all my PCs always work out of the box, all things I need are offered to me on first boot and then I'm ready to go <! :#FF8C00--> "color:#FF8C00"><!--/ > By this point, my computer is 2 years old... It's aged to a point where Ubuntu should just recognize everything... alas, it doesn't /sadface<!--colorc--> <!--/colorc-->
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what mysteriously magical hardware do you have that isn't recognised ?
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