frkingz
March 23rd, 2009, 09:56 PM
Hi,
Recently bought Dell Mini 9 with XP. Bought a new harddrive and installed Ubuntu 8.10.
Everything worked great for about a week. Now no wireless. Wireless originally worked fine. Now it doesn't. Wired works fine.
Removed new harddrive, put in original with XP, wireless works fine.
Removed network-manager and replaced it with wicd, still no wireless.
Downloaded all updates including pre-release updates, no wireless.
Deleted Ubuntu, installed Xubuntu, no wireless.
Tried Kubuntu, no wireless.
Reinstalled Ubuntu, no wireless.
Tried everything else I could find on the internet, enabling broadcom drivers, FN+2 to turn on wireless, about twenty other things, still no wireless.
Any help appreciated. New to Linux but can usually figure things out myself with the help of Google. This is driving me nuts.
I have a feeling it is something simple and stupid. Something to do with eth1 and eth0 but I don't know enough about Linux to figure it out.
Thank you very much.
frk@hal9000d:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
pan0 no wireless extensions.
frk@hal9000d:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:ca:48:ca
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:feca:48ca/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2477 (2.4 KB) TX bytes:7098 (7.0 KB)
Interrupt:220 Base address:0x2000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:73:2d:9a:15
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:73ff:fe2d:9a15/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17
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:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4000 (4.0 KB) TX bytes:4000 (4.0 KB)
frk@hal9000d:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for frk:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:10:32:73:A0
ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:5/5 Signal level:-25 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Recently bought Dell Mini 9 with XP. Bought a new harddrive and installed Ubuntu 8.10.
Everything worked great for about a week. Now no wireless. Wireless originally worked fine. Now it doesn't. Wired works fine.
Removed new harddrive, put in original with XP, wireless works fine.
Removed network-manager and replaced it with wicd, still no wireless.
Downloaded all updates including pre-release updates, no wireless.
Deleted Ubuntu, installed Xubuntu, no wireless.
Tried Kubuntu, no wireless.
Reinstalled Ubuntu, no wireless.
Tried everything else I could find on the internet, enabling broadcom drivers, FN+2 to turn on wireless, about twenty other things, still no wireless.
Any help appreciated. New to Linux but can usually figure things out myself with the help of Google. This is driving me nuts.
I have a feeling it is something simple and stupid. Something to do with eth1 and eth0 but I don't know enough about Linux to figure it out.
Thank you very much.
frk@hal9000d:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
pan0 no wireless extensions.
frk@hal9000d:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:ca:48:ca
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:feca:48ca/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2477 (2.4 KB) TX bytes:7098 (7.0 KB)
Interrupt:220 Base address:0x2000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:73:2d:9a:15
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:73ff:fe2d:9a15/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:17
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:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4000 (4.0 KB) TX bytes:4000 (4.0 KB)
frk@hal9000d:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for frk:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:10:32:73:A0
ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:5/5 Signal level:-25 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.