yorkshiresky
March 11th, 2009, 05:17 PM
I'm totally stumped in trying to get my wireless connection to work. I installed 8.10 on Saturday and it connected straight away but soon after it lost the connection and have looked at dozens of threads in the hope of finding what's up with no joy. I did a fresh install of 8.10 today but that didn't work either.
Here are the results of some scans
home@home-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:10:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 11
serial: 00:12:79:c6:7a:97
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.94 firmware=5751m-v3.29a latency=0 link=no module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: 3a:12:ff:02:54:3e
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
home@home-laptop:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
home@home-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... [OK]
home@home-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
pan0 no wireless extensions
Network manager doesn't work either.
I'm a linux newbie and know it's a bit of a learning curve but this has me floored.
Here are the results of some scans
home@home-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:10:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 11
serial: 00:12:79:c6:7a:97
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.94 firmware=5751m-v3.29a latency=0 link=no module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: 3a:12:ff:02:54:3e
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
home@home-laptop:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
home@home-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... [OK]
home@home-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
pan0 no wireless extensions
Network manager doesn't work either.
I'm a linux newbie and know it's a bit of a learning curve but this has me floored.