Wired ethernet not getting detected

[rbisawa]

Hello Everyone,

I have installed Ubuntu 10.04-64 bit ( Lucid Lynx ) on my Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop.

I'm unable to detect my wired ethernet.
I tried searching for it extensively but I think I was unable to make sense out of the posts already present.

I know this has something to do with the need to install the correct drivers.

Also posting the output of few popular commands which I'm sure I would be asked to execute.

==========================================
sudo ifconfig -a
Output :
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
...........
...........

No other interfaces were detected apart from loopback.
================================================
lspci
Output :
...........
...........
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communication AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
=================================================
ifup eth0
Output :
Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0
=================================================
Please let me know if you need any more information.

Looking forward to some pointers on this issue.

Cheers!

[pytheas22]

Please also post the output of these commands:

cat /etc/network/interfaces
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
ifconfig -a

They should help straighten things out.

[rbisawa]

@pytheas22 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=358340)

Sorry was at office since morning.

Here you are with all the outputs.

===============================================
cat /etc/network/interfaces
Output :
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
================================================== ===
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Output :
# ...some comments...
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false
================================================== ===
dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
Output :
<No output>
================================================== ===
ifconfig -a
Output :
Same as given in my 1st post...only loopback interface is being displayed.
================================================== ===

Do let me know if you want any more info.

Anticipating a quick reply. Thanks.

Cheers!

[pytheas22]

hmmm, it seems like the system is not trying to initialize the hardware at all, even though it doesn't recognize that it's present, according to the "lspci" output from your first post.

I'll have to ask for a little more information so we can figure out if any driver is even trying to claim the ethernet device. Could you please post the output of:

lshw -C Network
lspci -nn

[rbisawa]

Here you are with the outputs :

================================================== =====
lshw -C Network
Output :
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
================================================== ====
lspci -nn
Output :
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03] Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
================================================== =====

Hope the above outputs can give us some lead.

Cheers!

[pytheas22]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands (the first two commands require that you either have an Internet connection, or have your Ubuntu installation CD enabled as a software repository (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#CD-ROM.2BAC8-DVD)):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.

[rbisawa]

Yo !!

Wired ethernet is now up n running !!

I performed all the steps suggested in the previous post and rebooted.

@pytheas22 : Thanks a lot dude. Keep up the good work.

Can you also post the commands to enable wireless networking and bluetooth if possible.
Although I don't have a wireless router to test the connection still it would be nice
if I could get it up n ready to use anytime.


Cheers n keep Ubunting !!

[pytheas22]

Glad to hear the ethernet is sorted out :) The only caveat is that whenever you get a new kernel from Ubuntu Updates (usually updated kernel packages are pushed out once a month or so), you will have to recompile the ethernet driver by repeating the steps in my previous post in order to make the driver work with the new kernel. Hopefully the next release of Ubuntu (in October) will include support for your card out-of-the-box and this will no longer be an issue.

As for the wireless, that shouldn't be too hard to get up and running. Your device needs a closed-source driver that Ubuntu doesn't ship by default, but you can install it easily by running:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

After that, you should be able to connect to wireless networks (when there's one around to connect to) using the NetworkManager applet in the upper-right corner of your screen. The wireless driver should be updated automatically whenever the kernel is, so in this case you don't have to worry about recompiling manually.

I've never owned a bluetooth device so I don't have experience dealing with one in Linux, unfortunately. I assume, though, that you've gone to System>Preferences>Bluetooth and was told that no bluetooth devices were present? If that's the case, I'll do my best to set you on the right path if you could plug the bluetooth device in and then post the output of:

lsusb

[rbisawa]

Yes, as soon as I got my ethernet working I went for an upgrade using the update manager. In the process it also upgraded the kernel which resulted in losing the driver again. But I reinstalled the driver using the steps mentioned previously and it was up again.

Regarding the wireless network, I read in one of the posts that it could be installed using the Hardware Manager which was a cake walk and I guess the above commands given by you would do the same.

Also bluetooth is now enabled after switching on the Bluetooth adapter in Windows.

Will get back if need any more help in this regard.

Cheers!

[banskt]

I am also having the same problems.

I will try this solution today and post it here.

[gibu_]

I too have the same problem as the original poster. i.e I can't connect to the internet and do not have an interface other than loopback.

However I am not sure how we can upgrade using pytheas22 commands


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

if I do not have a network connection itself on the machine where I need to fix the "original network problem". I do have another windows laptop. I downloaded build-essential but that has some dependency and then that has other dependency. I was wondering if there is any other way or some way to download via http (a browser) from packages.ubuntu.com all dependencies and packages for build-essential ?

Any comments would be helpful.

Thanks

[pytheas22]

gibu_: first off, keep in mind that the solution for the original poster only applies to specific hardware. If you don't have the same exact ethernet card, your problem is likely different.

That said, assuming your problem is the same, the Ubuntu installation CD has the build-essential package on it and all dependencies. So you can put your CD in the drive, then go to System>Administration>Software Sources and under the "Ubuntu Software" tab, make sure the box for using your CD or DVD as a repository is checked. Then close the window, agree to update your sources list when prompted, and try running again:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

If this works, you can proceed with compiling the ethernet driver and hopefully this will get you online.

If you don't have the same hardware as the original poster (or aren't sure which hardware you have), please post the output of these commands so we can try to figure out how to solve your problem:

lspci -nn
dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl
cat /etc/issue
uname -rm

[gibu_]

pytheas22 : You have been a great help.

Thanks for the original steps. I did not know the easiest approach to updating build-essential was using the original cd itself. I took a long route to reaching that by using my windows laptop + keryx (http://keryxproject.org/tutorial/#on_windows) to get all dependencies for build-essential and then followed the rest of your steps.

Wired networking is working for me.

I bought a new laptop a few days back Dell N4010 i3, without an OS. So getting Ubuntu to run was mandatory. Without a network running, i was disappointed. Thanks a ton for your post.


For the record my hardware details as per your request.

drince@drince-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)

drince@drince-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -e eth -e at1
[ 17.434315] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 19.817303] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 28.156600] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
drince@drince-laptop:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS \n \l

drince@drince-laptop:~$ uname -rm
2.6.32-21-generic x86_64

Next I will try to get the wireless running as per your suggestion and revert back (need to head back to bed right now though). Do you think your previous comments about the wireless holds good ?


Find below the output of lshw -C network

drince@drince-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c1
serial: b8:ac:6f:67:27:68
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A ip=192.168.2.3 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:33 memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
drince@drince-laptop:~$

[pytheas22]

gibu_: glad to hear that worked. It looks like your ethernet hardware is the same as the original poster's.

The same procedure should probably also work for your wireless. You just need the proprietary 'wl' module installed, which you can accomplish using the steps earlier in the thread. Let me know if you have any trouble.

Keep in mind that you will need to recompile the ethernet driver whenever you update your Ubuntu kernel; you may want to keep a clean copy of the source code on hand for that purpose.

Out of curiosity, did you buy your computer from Dell directly without any operating system installed? I've never been able to find them like that here in the United States, but I'd sure like to in order to be able to avoid paying for Windows. Dell also offers a few laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled, but the selection is much smaller than the Windows offerings, so being able to choose any laptop and not have Windows preinstalled would be great.

[gibu_]

pytheas22:

I was not able to setup wireless on the laptop. Output of the steps you suggested. (I executed a second time). It had executed with no errors.

I have never setup wireless on Ubuntu so was not sure where to look for it. The Network Manager also does not give a hint that you should ideally find it there. I guess it should have shown something there.

drince@drince-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for drince:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 212 not upgraded.
drince@drince-laptop:~$ echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
wlFor me in the Network Manager, the rows are as follows "
Wired Network
Auto eth0
Disconnect
VPN Connections
Is there some other output i should post ? BTW I have seen some posts about enabling wireless, but was not sure if i should try and disturb the default settings on this new installation. So waiting for any comments you have.

I got this laptop from an authorized Dell outlet (not direct Dell). It came with only a FreeDOS CD. So without Windows I got it at approx. $80 cheaper.

Thanks in advance.

Gibu

[pytheas22]

gibu_: sorry that didn't work. Please post the output of these commands so we can try to figure out what went wrong:

sudo modprobe wl
ls /lib/firmware
dmesg | grep -e wl -ie firmware -e wlan -ie radio
lshw -C Network

The first command may have no output; that's alright.

[gibu_]

Hi pytheas22:

Output for the commands.


sudo modprobe wl
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/updates/dkms/wl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

ls /lib/firmware
2.6.32-21-generic dabusb libertas sxg
3com dsp56k matrox tehuti
acenic dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw mts_cdma.fw ti_3410.fw
adaptec dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw mts_edge.fw ti_5052.fw
advansys e100 mts_gsm.fw tigon
agere_ap_fw.bin ea mwl8k tr_smctr.bin
agere_sta_fw.bin edgeport myricom ttusb-budget
aic94xx-seq.fw emi26 NPE-B usbdux
ar9170-1.fw emi62 NPE-C usbduxfast_firmware.bin
ar9170-2.fw ess ositech usbdux_firmware.bin
ar9170.fw i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf ql2100_fw.bin v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw
ath3k-1.fw i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf ql2200_fw.bin v4l-cx23418-apu.fw
atmel_at76c502_3com.bin intelliport2.bin ql2300_fw.bin v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
atmel_at76c502.bin ipw2100-1.3.fw ql2322_fw.bin v4l-cx23418-dig.fw
atmel_at76c502d.bin ipw2100-1.3-i.fw ql2400_fw.bin v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
atmel_at76c502e.bin ipw2100-1.3-p.fw ql2500_fw.bin v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
atmel_at76c504_2958.bin ipw2200-bss.fw qlogic v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
atmel_at76c504a_2958.bin ipw2200-ibss.fw r128 v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
atmel_at76c504.bin ipw2200-sniffer.fw radeon v4l-cx23885-enc.fw
atmel_at76c506.bin iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode rt2561.bin v4l-cx25840.fw
atmsar11.fw iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode rt2561s.bin v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
av7110 iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode rt2661.bin v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
bnx2 iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode rt2860.bin vicam
bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode rt2870.bin whiteheat.fw
bnx2x-e1-5.2.7.0.fw iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode rt73.bin whiteheat_loader.fw
bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode RTL8192SE yam
bnx2x-e1h-5.2.7.0.fw kaweth sb16 yamaha
cis keyspan scripts zd1201-ap.fw
cpia2 keyspan_pda slicoss zd1201.fw
cxgb3 korg sun zd1211


dmesg | grep -e wl -ie firmware -e wlan -ie radio

[ 16.032845] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 16.033594] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.033595] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.037820] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.037824] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.045915] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.045919] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.053361] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.053365] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.059630] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 16.059634] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 501.119832] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 501.119840] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 507.391666] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 507.391675] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 559.166387] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 559.166395] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 577.657950] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 577.657959] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops


lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c1
serial: b8:ac:6f:67:27:68
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A ip=192.168.2.2 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:33 memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)


thanks for your help.

[pytheas22]

gibu_: thanks for the output. From your dmesg output, it looks like the system doesn't like the version of the 'wl' module (the driver for your wireless card) that was installed before. I'm not sure exactly why, but I think it would be worth removing it by typing:

sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-modaliases

(If it says either of these packages is not installed, just ignore the message and continue.)

Then reboot. After the reboot, reinstall the package with:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

This should give you a fresh build of the module, which will hopefully work better. After it finishes installing, please reboot. If after that point it still doesn't work, please let me know the output of:

dmesg | grep -e wl
modinfo wl

If this process won't work on the second try, we can install the driver manually...

[gibu_]

pytheas22:


Thanks for the steps. However it still does not work. I don't know if i should have said this earlier, but i had added a "Wireless connection" via that Network Manager Applet under the wireless tab. However as mentioned previously it does not show up under the "NM Applet Menu".



dmesg | grep -e wl
[ 15.833827] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 15.835009] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.835012] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.840662] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.840668] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.845757] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.845761] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.853172] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.853176] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.859018] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.859022] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops


modinfo wl
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/updates/dkms/wl.ko
license: MIXED/Proprietary
srcversion: 74F8D9437CF7F1FCB427C79
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004357sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004353sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000432Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000432Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000432Bsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d0000432Asv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004329sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004328sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004315sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004313sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004312sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v000014E4d00004311sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: lib80211
vermagic: 2.6.32-21-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: oneonly:int
parm: piomode:int
parm: instance_base:int
parm: nompc:int
parm: name:string
prince@prince-laptop:~$

Thanks for your help.

[pytheas22]

gibu_: I did some googling and found this bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/395630), which I think is related. The fix is supposed to be to remove the linux-backports-modules-wireless package. So please run:

sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-wireless-`uname -r`-generic

Then please reboot and see if wireless works. If it still fails, please try:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko
sudo modprobe wl

[gibu_]

pytheas22: it gave some errors and did not work.

I will google around more and update here if i find a solution.
The wireless card i have is kind of not yet supported. I can see its not listed even in the list of ndiswrapper (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Category:Dell). I guess i have to wait.

Dell Wireless 1501 802.11b/g/n Half Mini Card
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-wireless-`uname -r`-generic
some message not removed as its not installed......

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko': -1 File exists

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module


sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module


sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

sudo modprobe wl
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/updates/dkms/wl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)


dmesg | grep wl
[ 15.975041] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 15.975803] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.975805] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.980961] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.980967] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.985940] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.985945] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.991639] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.991643] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.997513] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.997518] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 102.223975] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 102.223984] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops

[pytheas22]

Your device really should be supported. The ndiswrapper list is not necessarily up-to-date, so I wouldn't put much stock in it; more importantly, there is a native Linux driver for your card available from Broadcom (which manufactures the device) at http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php. That driver is the one that should have been installed earlier when you ran the command "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source", but apparently that version of the driver didn't work for you.

I think it might be worth a try to install the driver directly from Broadcom's site, instead of using the Ubuntu package that you tried earlier. To install from Broadcom, first go to http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php and download the appropriate driver for your kernel architecture (32 or 64-bit). Save the file to your desktop. Then run these commands to compile and install it:

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
mv hybrid-portsrc*gz /tmp
cd /tmp
tar -xzvf hybrid-portsrc*gz
make
sudo make install

Then try rebooting, and see if it works. If this also fails, we can try the ndiswrapper approach, which would get your card running using Windows drivers.

[gibu_]

pytheas22: I tried the steps you suggested. It `still does not work.

From the broadcom site (http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt) they mention loading
lib80211 or ieee80211_crypt_tkip. The first one loaded without errors, but there is no wireless enabled.

I tried loading ieee80211_crypt_tkip but was not able to do so as the module does not exist. However if you look at the dmesg (as seen previously), all the while the errors seem to be related to this module.

BTW one note, after downloading from the broadcom site, I am not able to enable the driver via the "Hardware Drivers" applet. When i used your earlier approaches, atleast over there it was shown as enabled.

On another note, do you think by any chance using Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.10 would solve this problem ? or if i shift to the 32 bit version ? I am open to downgrading to sort this problem. Earlier I was just fine using 8.10.

drince@drince-laptop:~/Downloads/hyb$ make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic'
LD /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/src/shared/linux_osl.o
CC [M] /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
CC [M] /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
LD [M] /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/wl.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/wl.o
see include/linux/module.h for more information
CC /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/wl.mod.o
LD [M] /home/drince/Downloads/hyb/wl.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic'

Thanks for all your effort.

dmesg | grep -e wl -ie firmware -e wlan -ie wl -ie hybrid -ie x86_64-v5 -ie 4727
[ 15.613275] wl: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 15.614128] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.614131] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.618793] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.618798] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.625928] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.625932] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.631682] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.631687] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.637417] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 15.637421] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
drince@drince-laptop:~/Downloads/hybdir$ sudo insmod wl.ko
insmod: error inserting 'wl.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

[pytheas22]

A different version of Ubuntu may well solve the problem. It seems that something weird is going on with your wireless stack (the bits of code in your computer that include the wireless device drivers and other modules on which they depend, such as drivers for doing WPA decryption), and the 'wl' driver is "disagreeing" with some of the other modules in the wireless stack. I've seen this type of stuff before and simply rebooting always solves it, but apparently that's not working in your case.

Thinking about it more, the problem might be related to when you compiled the ethernet driver, because that could potentially have modified some of the modules in the wireless stack (since in your particular case the ethernet driver source code was part of the compat-wireless (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download) package, for bizarre reasons) and caused these module "disagreements." I suspect that the wireless would work if you simply ran "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source" on a clean system, before compiling the ethernet driver.

So it might certainly be worth trying this on an earlier version of Ubuntu, or reinstalling 10.04 and seeing if installing the wireless driver before the ethernet works better. I'm pretty sure that the bcmwl-kernel-source package is on the Ubuntu installation CD, so if you enable your CD as a repository using the tool at System>Administration>Software Sources, you should then be able to install the wireless driver even without having an Internet connection available.

[gibu_]

pytheas22:

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try both options and get back. First with 10.04 and then with 8.10.

Gibu
ps : I may take sometime to get back

[gibu_]

pytheas22:

I had to try both options to get it to work !

First tried to get it working with Ubuntu 10.04 - 64 bit, i did not succeed.

Here are a few observations :
a) The bcmwl-kernel-source in the CD has a version that does not support
broadcom 4313 device. So we will have to download the latest version directly from the broadcom site (http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt).

b) Broadcom site says kernel 2.6.32 is not tested though some users have reported it to work for them. Ubuntu 10.04 comes with kernel 2.6.32, so there is some reason I could not get it to work.

As per your suggestion, I tried a fresh install of 10.04, and tried installing bcmwl form CD, then removed it, then downloaded and compiled the drivers from broadcom site. It did not work for me. Strangely there were no errors (dmesg) on startup this time unlike what i used to see before. The only problem was there was no indication that wireless loaded / was enabled.

I was in a hurry to get the wireless working so went to option 2 you mentioned, use an older Version of Ubuntu.
I had the Ubuntu 8.10 CD and installed 8.10.

It Works in Ubuntu 8.10 - 32 bit :
For the record my hardware : Dell 14R (N4010) with broadcom 4313 (equivalent Dell name is Dell 1501) device and it works well with Ubuntu 8.10.

I first got wired to work and then wireless. I followed the same steps mentioned in the readme in broadcom site (http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt) (32 bit).



Follow Build Instructions from here (http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt). Then make sure you are in the same folder where "wl.ko" is present.
sudo modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
sudo insmod ./wl.ko
Thank you very much for your help. Maybe in a weeks time i will reinstall 10.04 and give it another try, now that I know it works with 8.10. Now all i have to do is put the last 2 lines in some startup script so that wireless loads everytime i boot.

http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE
----------------------------
+ Supports up to linux kernel 2.6.31. 2.6.32 support is there also but

not tested (although reports from users suggests it works fine.)

[pytheas22]

gibu_: thanks for reporting back and glad to hear you were at least able to get it work in Ubuntu 8.10.

I'm wondering if perhaps the module was simply not loaded when you installed in under Ubuntu 10.04. Usually the system loads it automatically at boot time, but if it's not, try running:

sudo modprobe wl

and see if you then find information in dmesg about the driver being present.

If you want to play around with 10.04 and need more help, let me know. But I completely understand if you want to stick with 8.10 since you know it works.

[gibu_]

pytheas22:

In 10.04, I did not try loading the driver explicitly, I hope to re-try it over the weekend and get back to you.

[Rajeshtl]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.


This didnt help I still have the same problem...
for sudo Modprobe command :: it does nothing...

[Rajeshtl]

gibu_: first off, keep in mind that the solution for the original poster only applies to specific hardware. If you don't have the same exact ethernet card, your problem is likely different.

That said, assuming your problem is the same, the Ubuntu installation CD has the build-essential package on it and all dependencies. So you can put your CD in the drive, then go to System>Administration>Software Sources and under the "Ubuntu Software" tab, make sure the box for using your CD or DVD as a repository is checked. Then close the window, agree to update your sources list when prompted, and try running again:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

If this works, you can proceed with compiling the ethernet driver and hopefully this will get you online.

If you don't have the same hardware as the original poster (or aren't sure which hardware you have), please post the output of these commands so we can try to figure out how to solve your problem:

lspci -nn
dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl
cat /etc/issue
uname -rm

Here are the results of the above commands..

lspsci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
02:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
02:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
02:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl
[ 1.081890] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:15:c5:70:71:20
[ 11.415935] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 14.816271] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 14.816277] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[ 14.816589] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 25.212022] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS \n \l
unmae -rm
2.6.32-21-generic i686

[gibu_]

pytheas22:

I reinstalled 10.04, had the wireless driver from broadcom site installed first. It worked :oops: :-)
Not sure what I missed the first time. I did not have to load the wl module either. However I followed the instructions mentioned from the broadcom site.

After a reboot, i then tried getting the wired network to work. I compiled and restarted. The wired works. However after that I can't get the wireless to work again. Since it is not auto loaded, i tried doing it manually again as below.


sudo insmod wl.ko
insmod: error inserting 'wl.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
drince10@drince10-laptop:~/Desktop/forums2/hy64$ sudo insmod ./wl.ko
insmod: error inserting './wl.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
drince10@drince10-laptop:~/Desktop/forums2/hy64$ sudo modprobe wl
FATAL: Module wl not found.It looks like with a Dell 1501 wireless card (broadcom 4313) on Ubuntu 10.04, we can't get wired and wireless to work (without some developer help) due to some compatibility errors.

One additional observation i would like to make is with 10.04, the access to Internet is slow every time you visit a page. In Firefox, it looks like a dns lookup of the website is done every time, so it says looking up site and after a minimum of 3-7 seconds, it starts the page download. I observed this on both wired and wireless, even in the second installation. Note, this occurs every time we access the website in the same session. I tried multiple sites too. The first time too I had observed it on the wired , but i thought something was wrong with my connection. However with Ubuntu 8.10, both wired and wireless worked smoothly. The reinstallation of 10.04 confirms it.

I guess I am better off staying with 8.10 (because it has a lower supported kernel version). When I get a 9.10 cd, i could even try that :-) or whenever broadcom site supports the 2.6.32 kernel, i could retry.

[pytheas22]

gibu: that makes sense and confirms what I had come to suspect. It seems that compiling the ethernet driver for your device modifies the wireless stack in such a way that it makes the Broadcom wireless driver incompatible. Unfortunately Broadcom's driver can be picky about what it needs to work, and since it's maintained by Broadcom rather than open-source developers, it's hard to fix these problems.

I'm thinking it may still be possible for you to get your wireless and ethernet working at the same time by using ndiswrapper for the wireless. ndiswrapper would drive your card using Windows drivers rather than Broadcom's driver, and it should work even with your modified wireless stack. If you want to give this a try, I'll try to write up instructions if you can point me to a Windows driver for your wireless card, and tell me whether you're using a 32 or 64-bit Linux kernel (if you aren't sure, post the output of "uname -m").

Of course, if you'd prefer simply to stick with 8.10 at this point, that's completely fine, so don't feel any pressure to try ndiswrapper unless you want to.

Rajeshtl: the commands you ran installed an ethernet driver for a device that you don't have. I assume you want to get your wireless working; to do that, it should be sufficient to do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

You may also need to run this command to undo the changes you made before:

cd ~/Desktop/compat-wireless*
sudo make uninstall

If this still doesn't make your wireless work after a reboot, please post the output of:

dmesg | grep -e wl -e eth1 -e disagree
lshw -C Network

[Rajeshtl]

gibu: that makes sense and confirms what I had come to suspect. It seems that compiling the ethernet driver for your device modifies the wireless stack in such a way that it makes the Broadcom wireless driver incompatible. Unfortunately Broadcom's driver can be picky about what it needs to work, and since it's maintained by Broadcom rather than open-source developers, it's hard to fix these problems.

I'm thinking it may still be possible for you to get your wireless and ethernet working at the same time by using ndiswrapper for the wireless. ndiswrapper would drive your card using Windows drivers rather than Broadcom's driver, and it should work even with your modified wireless stack. If you want to give this a try, I'll try to write up instructions if you can point me to a Windows driver for your wireless card, and tell me whether you're using a 32 or 64-bit Linux kernel (if you aren't sure, post the output of "uname -m").

Of course, if you'd prefer simply to stick with 8.10 at this point, that's completely fine, so don't feel any pressure to try ndiswrapper unless you want to.

Rajeshtl: the commands you ran installed an ethernet driver for a device that you don't have. I assume you want to get your wireless working; to do that, it should be sufficient to do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

You may also need to run this command to undo the changes you made before:

cd ~/Desktop/compat-wireless*
sudo make uninstall

If this still doesn't make your wireless work after a reboot, please post the output of:

dmesg | grep -e wl -e eth1 -e disagree
lshw -C Network


@pytheas22
First of all I appreciate your reply and Yes I want to make my wireless work..

first set of commands didnt work.
here is the output of

dmesg | grep -e wl -e eth1 -e disagree

this gave me nothing.

lshw -C Network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:efdfc000-efdfffff
*-network
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: 00:15:c5:70:71:20
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 latency=64 multicast=yes
resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:18:f3:d8:2f:2a
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

[pytheas22]

Rajeshtl: what do you mean when you say the first set of commands didn't work? It would be useful to see the output to know exactly what failed.

Another approach is to run these commands, then reboot:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

At one point you will be asked whether you want to download firmware; make sure to say yes.

Note that for this to work, you will need to be plugged into the Internet because you need to download files required by the wireless driver. If you have no way to plug into the Internet, let me know and we can try a different approach (but plugging in is much less complicated).

[Rajeshtl]

gibu: that makes sense and confirms what I had come to suspect. It seems that compiling the ethernet driver for your device modifies the wireless stack in such a way that it makes the Broadcom wireless driver incompatible. Unfortunately Broadcom's driver can be picky about what it needs to work, and since it's maintained by Broadcom rather than open-source developers, it's hard to fix these problems.

I'm thinking it may still be possible for you to get your wireless and ethernet working at the same time by using ndiswrapper for the wireless. ndiswrapper would drive your card using Windows drivers rather than Broadcom's driver, and it should work even with your modified wireless stack. If you want to give this a try, I'll try to write up instructions if you can point me to a Windows driver for your wireless card, and tell me whether you're using a 32 or 64-bit Linux kernel (if you aren't sure, post the output of "uname -m").

Of course, if you'd prefer simply to stick with 8.10 at this point, that's completely fine, so don't feel any pressure to try ndiswrapper unless you want to.

Rajeshtl: the commands you ran installed an ethernet driver for a device that you don't have. I assume you want to get your wireless working; to do that, it should be sufficient to do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

You may also need to run this command to undo the changes you made before:

cd ~/Desktop/compat-wireless*
sudo make uninstall

If this still doesn't make your wireless work after a reboot, please post the output of:

dmesg | grep -e wl -e eth1 -e disagree
lshw -C Network


Sudo apt-get update
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

eading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-modaliases is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
dkms fakeroot patch
Suggested packages:
diffutils-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bcmwl-kernel-source dkms fakeroot patch
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1,205kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,764kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)/ lucid/restricted bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3
File not found
Err cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)/ lucid/main fakeroot 1.14.4-1ubuntu1
File not found
Err cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)/ lucid/main patch 2.6-2ubuntu1
File not found
Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3_i386.deb File not found
Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.14.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb File not found
Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/pool/main/p/patch/patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_i386.deb File not found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
wl

[Rajeshtl]

Rajeshtl: what do you mean when you say the first set of commands didn't work? It would be useful to see the output to know exactly what failed.

Another approach is to run these commands, then reboot:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

At one point you will be asked whether you want to download firmware; make sure to say yes.

Note that for this to work, you will need to be plugged into the Internet because you need to download files required by the wireless driver. If you have no way to plug into the Internet, let me know and we can try a different approach (but plugging in is much less complicated).


output of the command:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:012-1build1) ...
--2010-07-16 16:41:05-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.openwrt.org'
dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
b43-fwcutter
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[pytheas22]

Rajeshtl: it looks like you were not connected to the Internet when you ran those commands. You need to have an Internet connection to download the files you need.

If it's totally impossible for you to get an Internet connection on this computer, you can do this:

1. on another computer with Internet access, download the file http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/b43_firmware.tar.gz
2. use a USB stick or CD to transfer that file to your Ubuntu computer. Save it on your desktop there.
3. run these commands on the Ubuntu computer:

cd ~/Desktop
tar -xzvf b43_firmware.tar.gz
sudo mv b43 /lib/firmware
sudo mv b43legacy /lib/firmware

Now try rebooting and hopefully the wireless will work. If it still does not work, please post the output of these commands (some commands may have no output):

sudo rmmod wl
sudo rmmod ssb
sudo rmmod b43
sudo modprobe b43
sudo iwlist scan
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wlan -e firmware
ls /lib/firmware

[Rajeshtl]

Rajeshtl: it looks like you were not connected to the Internet when you ran those commands. You need to have an Internet connection to download the files you need.

If it's totally impossible for you to get an Internet connection on this computer, you can do this:

1. on another computer with Internet access, download the file http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/b43_firmware.tar.gz
2. use a USB stick or CD to transfer that file to your Ubuntu computer. Save it on your desktop there.
3. run these commands on the Ubuntu computer:

cd ~/Desktop
tar -xzvf b43_firmware.tar.gz
sudo mv b43 /lib/firmware
sudo mv b43legacy /lib/firmware

Now try rebooting and hopefully the wireless will work. If it still does not work, please post the output of these commands (some commands may have no output):

sudo rmmod wl
sudo rmmod ssb
sudo rmmod b43
sudo modprobe b43
sudo iwlist scan
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wlan -e firmware
ls /lib/firmware

My laptop was connected to internet when I was executing the commands in the above post....Anyways I tried downloading and executing the commands,restarting it after that but it didnt work....Hence I ran the commands as specified:

sudo rmmod wl
ERROR: Module wl does not exist in /proc/modules
sudo rmmod ssb
ERROR: Module ssb is in use by b43,b44
Sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wlan -e firmware
[ 1.422897] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1.422919] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 11.325212] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)
[ 11.425146] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 11.425167] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 11.425187] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 434.696850] b43-phy1: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)
[ 434.768748] Registered led device: b43-phy1::tx
[ 434.768789] Registered led device: b43-phy1::rx
[ 434.768826] Registered led device: b43-phy1::radio

ls /lib/firmware
2.6.32-21-generic ess rt2561s.bin
3com i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf rt2661.bin
acenic i2400m-fw-usb-1.4.sbcf rt2860.bin
adaptec intelliport2.bin rt2870.bin
advansys ipw2100-1.3.fw rt73.bin
agere_ap_fw.bin ipw2100-1.3-i.fw RTL8192SE
agere_sta_fw.bin ipw2100-1.3-p.fw sb16
aic94xx-seq.fw ipw2200-bss.fw scripts
ar9170-1.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw slicoss
ar9170-2.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw sun
ar9170.fw iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode sxg
ath3k-1.fw iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode tehuti
atmel_at76c502_3com.bin iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode ti_3410.fw
atmel_at76c502.bin iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode ti_5052.fw
atmel_at76c502d.bin iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode tigon
atmel_at76c502e.bin iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode tr_smctr.bin
atmel_at76c504_2958.bin iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode ttusb-budget
atmel_at76c504a_2958.bin kaweth usbdux
atmel_at76c504.bin keyspan usbduxfast_firmware.bin
atmel_at76c506.bin keyspan_pda usbdux_firmware.bin
atmsar11.fw korg v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw
av7110 libertas v4l-cx23418-apu.fw
b43 matrox v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw
b43legacy mts_cdma.fw v4l-cx23418-dig.fw
bnx2 mts_edge.fw v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
bnx2x-e1-4.8.53.0.fw mts_gsm.fw v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
bnx2x-e1-5.2.7.0.fw mwl8k v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg
bnx2x-e1h-4.8.53.0.fw myricom v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
bnx2x-e1h-5.2.7.0.fw NPE-B v4l-cx23885-enc.fw
cis NPE-C v4l-cx25840.fw
cpia2 ositech v4l-pvrusb2-24xxx-01.fw
cxgb3 ql2100_fw.bin v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw
dabusb ql2200_fw.bin vicam
dsp56k ql2300_fw.bin whiteheat.fw
dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw ql2322_fw.bin whiteheat_loader.fw
dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw ql2400_fw.bin yam
e100 ql2500_fw.bin yamaha
ea qlogic zd1201-ap.fw
edgeport r128 zd1201.fw
emi26 radeon zd1211
emi62 rt2561.bin

[pytheas22]

The firmware looks like it's installed now, so that's good. In order to connect to networks, you may simply need to type:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

If that doesn't produce any errors, type:

sudo iwlist scan

You should see a list of wireless networks in range. If you do, try connecting to yours.

[Rajeshtl]

The firmware looks like it's installed now, so that's good. In order to connect to networks, you may simply need to type:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

If that doesn't produce any errors, type:

sudo iwlist scan

You should see a list of wireless networks in range. If you do, try connecting to yours.


first time when I ran 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' it asked for my password and when I typed in it did nothing,then I entered the second one and it gave me this results

lo Interface doesnt support Scanning
eth0 interface doesnt support scanning
wlan0 interface doesnt support scanning: network is down...

Network is not down...I have a desktop which is working fine.

THen I typed in the same commands again
for the first one this time I got SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
second one gave the same results...

Appreciate your help...

[Rajeshtl]

first time when I ran 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up' it asked for my password and when I typed in it did nothing,then I entered the second one and it gave me this results

lo Interface doesnt support Scanning
eth0 interface doesnt support scanning
wlan0 interface doesnt support scanning: network is down...

Network is not down...I have a desktop which is working fine.

THen I typed in the same commands again
for the first one this time I got SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
second one gave the same results...

Appreciate your help...


I just did 'rfkill list'
these are the results:
dell-wifi:Wireless LAN
Soft Blocked : no
Hard Blocked : no
Phy0:wireless LAN
Soft Blocked : no
hArd blocked : no

[pytheas22]

That's strange. We may need to try a different driver. The one you were using was called 'b43'; let's try the STA driver instead, which is called 'wl'. To install the STA driver, type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --fix-missing bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

Alternatively, you should be able to install the driver graphically using the utility at System>Administration>Hardware Drivers.

You will need to be connected to the Internet for this to work, so please make sure you can browse websites before trying to install the STA driver.

Once the driver is installed, reboot. If the wireless still doesn't work, try typing "sudo ifconfig eth1 up". If it still doesn't work even after that, please post:

ifconfig
iwconfig
lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wl -e eth

Sorry this is turning out to be difficult, but thanks for your patience.

[Rajeshtl]

That's strange. We may need to try a different driver. The one you were using was called 'b43'; let's try the STA driver instead, which is called 'wl'. To install the STA driver, type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --fix-missing bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

Alternatively, you should be able to install the driver graphically using the utility at System>Administration>Hardware Drivers.

You will need to be connected to the Internet for this to work, so please make sure you can browse websites before trying to install the STA driver.

Once the driver is installed, reboot. If the wireless still doesn't work, try typing "sudo ifconfig eth1 up". If it still doesn't work even after that, please post:

ifconfig
iwconfig
lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wl -e eth

Sorry this is turning out to be difficult, but thanks for your patience.

**** My Wired Network is not working.
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

ifconfig
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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)
lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:efdfc000-efdfffff
*-network DISABLED
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: 00:15:c5:70:71:20
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 latency=64 multicast=yes
resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:18:f3:d8:2f:2a
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
dmesg | grep -e b43 wl -e eth
grep: wl: No such file or directory

[pytheas22]

Do you have an Ubuntu installation CD? If so, you can install the driver from there. First you need to put your CD in the drive, then go to System>Administration>Software Sources and, under the "Ubuntu Software" tab, enable the use of your CD as a repository. After that, try running again:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

If this doesn't work, you may also be able to get your wired Internet working by typing:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

After typing those commands, try opening Web pages. If that works, you can download the STA driver using:


sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

[Rajeshtl]

Do you have an Ubuntu installation CD? If so, you can install the driver from there. First you need to put your CD in the drive, then go to System>Administration>Software Sources and, under the "Ubuntu Software" tab, enable the use of your CD as a repository. After that, try running again:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

If this doesn't work, you may also be able to get your wired Internet working by typing:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

After typing those commands, try opening Web pages. If that works, you can download the STA driver using:


sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases


selected CD ROM as repository,this is what I got...
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version.
bcmwl-modaliases is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ...
Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.60.48.36+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-21-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-21-generic
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 35: patch: command not found
Error! Application of patch 0001-MODULE_LICENSE.patch failed.
Check /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/5.60.48.36+bdcom/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-kernel-source
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Rajeshtl]

selected CD ROM as repository,this is what I got...
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version.
bcmwl-modaliases is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ...
Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.60.48.36+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-21-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-21-generic
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 35: patch: command not found
Error! Application of patch 0001-MODULE_LICENSE.patch failed.
Check /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/5.60.48.36+bdcom/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-kernel-source
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


SUDO IFCONFIG ETH0 UP

sudo dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:c5:70:71:20
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:c5:70:71:20
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

[pytheas22]

It looks like it didn't work on the first try because the package 'patch' was not installed, which it apparently needs. Please make sure your Ubuntu CD is still enabled to be used as a repository, then try:

sudo apt-get install build-essential patch
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

[Rajeshtl]

It looks like it didn't work on the first try because the package 'patch' was not installed, which it apparently needs. Please make sure your Ubuntu CD is still enabled to be used as a repository, then try:

sudo apt-get install build-essential patch
sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

Sure I will try it tommorow and let u know..

[julio prada]

Hi rbisawa, on Pytheas post hes asked to enter:

sudo apt-get update

My problem is that I dont have access to any network since my wired and wireless cards are not recognized.

How did you do?

[pytheas22]

julio prada: we can find a way to activate your wireless even if you don't have wired Internet access, but first let's make sure your situation is actually the same as that of the other posters in this thread. Please post the output of these commands so we know which hardware you have, etc.:

lspci -nn
lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep wlan

If you have different hardware and a different problem, I'll ask you please to start a new thread so that this one doesn't become too convoluted, and I'll help you in your new thread.

Also, keep in mind that you can save the output of the commands to a text file, then use a USB disk or CD to transfer the file to a computer with Internet access, so that you can copy the output to this forum.

[crabiorc]

Hi Pytheas..First a very BIG bow for your help here. I am having the new inspiron N4010 - 14R from Dell and in the same page as Gilo__.

Tried:
Everything from the above posts and confirmed that wireless DO work without wired being configured (we are with the same system configuration).

Current scene:
My Wired connection works - thru your tip of enabling eth0 from compat-wireless.
Wireless not enabled. Hardware drivers-No restricted driver modules installed, as i tried installed from the broadcomm site.
But with the above workarounds i can confirm that its because of the wired driver, my wireless modules are not able to launch.

Now as you suggested please please please help me run the wireless up-ndiswrapper way. Thanks a ton in advance.

[crabiorc]

To add..I am using Ubuntu 10.04 ultimate 64 Bit- with tons of apps. This was pre-installed with a menu Windows wireless Drivers (i believe thats ndiswrapper).
I downloaded the Broadcomm 1501 Wireless card-64 Bit for Windows 7.
In this program i selected the .inf for the driver. Now it shows as
bcmwl6 - Hardware present:yes
What should i do next?

[pytheas22]

crabiorc: it looks like you're most of the way there if you have the Windows driver loaded into ndiswrapper and ndisgtk (the graphical "Windows Wireless Drivers" utility you're using--it's just a graphical frontend to ndiswrapper) says the hardware is present. This means you installed the right Windows driver for your device.

I'm guessing that either the ndiswrapper module is simply not loaded, or it can't claim the card because another driver is trying to. Please run these commands and post the output; hopefully these will put ndiswrapper in control:

sudo rmmod wl
sudo rmmod ssb
sudo rmmod b43
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo iwlist scan
dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
ndiswrapper -l
lshw -C Network

By this point, hopefully your wireless card will be working. If it's not, the command output should help figure out why.

Also, note that some of the commands above may have no output, and that some of them may produce errors. That's alright; just proceed to the next command.

[crabiorc]

Thanks again.. doing it right away. I believe that the previous tried-out Broadcomm driver for linux is blocking access to ndis.
I am sorry that i am not pasting the exact terminal output here.
sudo rmmod wl
No mod found in /proc/modules
sudo rmmod ssb
No mod found in /proc/modules
sudo rmmod b43
No mod found in /proc/modules
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
Nothing
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
A warning on .conf
sudo iwlist scan
lists the names of my network devices
lo device cannot scan
eth0 device cannot scan
pan0 device cannot scan
dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
Listed lots of lines with the same message 'Unknown symbol:filename'
Last 2 lines states that
Couldnt prepare driver bsmwl6
Couldnt load driver bsmwl6
ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl6:driver installed
device (14E4:4727) present
lshw -C Network
Listed all my network devices (lo, eth0, pan0) except eth1

And in Windows wireless drivers it still says that bcmwl6 Hardware present:Yes

[crabiorc]

Can i try updating the new lucid kernel 2.6.34 stable or 2.6.35rc1 ? I have lot other issues like Headphone/Mic jack not working, brightness increase/decrease keys not working,touchpad disable key not working.

[pytheas22]

From the output you posted, it actually doesn't look like the problem is another driver claiming your wireless card. Rather, it appears that ndiswrapper doesn't like the Windows driver that you loaded into it, as indicated by this output from dmesg:

dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
Listed lots of lines with the same message 'Unknown symbol:filename'
Last 2 lines states that
Couldnt prepare driver bsmwl6
Couldnt load driver bsmwl6

Sometimes this just happens. When ndiswrapper says that the hardware is present, it's not actually checking to see whether the given driver will work; it's just telling you that the driver says it should work for your particular device (it figures this out by looking at PCI IDs).

My advice would be to uninstall the Windows driver that you currently have loaded into ndiswrapper, and try installing a different version of that driver. ndiswrapper tends to work better with older Windows drivers, so if you can find one for XP or earlier, that would probably be better than Vista or 7. You can search the ndiswrapper database (http://www.burnthesorbonne.com/?page_id=32) to see if there are any links to Windows drivers known to work for your device.

As for upgrading your kernel, you can give it a try if you like--it's not too risky as long as you keep your old kernel installed as well and know how to boot to it in case the newer one doesn't work for some reason. I don't see any way that a newer kernel would solve your problem with ndiswrapper, because the solution there is going to be to find a Windows driver that ndiswrapper likes better. But a newer kernel might solve your other issues.

[rugito]

Hi all,

I have been trying to use the solution of the compat-wireless driver, as suggested. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 on a new Toshiba L635-S3015, and I have exactly the same wired ethernet card as rbisawa. However, when I run scripts/driver-select at11c I obtain Unsupported driver What am I doing wrong?

Thanks very much.

[PaulD475]

Hi.
I too have connection issues similer to the original thread starter.
Both my wired and wireless connections are not detected.
Thanks in advance for any help.

[rugito]

Solved! The problem was that I didn't realize that it was not AT11C but ATL1C! the "l" and the "1" look very similar...

[djschlotte]

So I am having a similar, if not the same, problem on my Asus G1s. I have Ubuntu 10.04 and my attempts to connect to the internet via a brand new Cat-5 cable have all failed. My wireless is working fine, and has been from the get go. I attempted the steps laid out on the first page before reading that those were hardware specific, so I hope I didn't screw things up worse than they were. Here is the information previously asked of others.

sudo ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:54:46:07
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe54:4607/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:120 (120.0 B) TX bytes:4572 (4.5 KB)
Interrupt:31 Base address:0x2000

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3b:5f:8b:69
inet addr:192.168.1.114 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3bff:fe5f:8b69/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:160820 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:96234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:224300557 (224.3 MB) TX bytes:11260784 (11.2 MB
================================================== ========================
lspci

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
================================================== ========================
ifup eth0

ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied
================================================== ========================
cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
================================================== ========================
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

no-auto-default=00:1f:c6:54:46:07,

[ifupdown]
managed=false
================================================== ========================
dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm

[ 2.211513] eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc90000672000, 00:1f:c6:54:46:07, XID 18000000 IRQ 31
[ 16.233960] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 16.233964] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 26.670030] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
================================================== ========================
lshw -C Network

description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:1f:c6:54:46:07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:31 ioport:a800(size=256) memory:fdfff000-fdffffff memory:fdfc0000-fdfdffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 61
serial: 00:1f:3b:5f:8b:69
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.1.114 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:32 memory:fe0fe000-fe0fffff
================================================== ==========================
lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2843] (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2829] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 9500M GS] [10de:0405] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4229] (rev 61)
07:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB360 AHCI Controller [197b:2360] (rev 02)
08:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
08:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
08:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
08:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
================================================== =========================

I don't really have a need for being connected via wires, but sometimes I would like to have the faster speeds. Thanks in advance for your time.

[pytheas22]

Sorry for not responding sooner--I was traveling and without an Internet connection.

PaulD475: even though your symptoms are the same as the original poster's, the causes may be different. Please post the output of these commands so we can have a better idea:

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep eth
lspci -nn

djschlotte: I'm not sure exactly what's wrong in your case, because from all of the output you posted, it looks like your wired interface should work. Maybe it's a dumb question, but are you positive that the network you're plugging into grants addresses via dhcp and that you don't need to configure it statically? You could try to request an address manually with:

sudo dhclient eth0

If that works, it will tell you that your interface has received an IP address from your router; otherwise it will time out with a message like "no leases received, sleeping."

It could also hep to see if the output of:

dmesg | grep eth0
lshw -C Network

says anything useful.

[sls54]

I have an Acer AOD260 with the same network hardware as the original poster. I have a dual boot with windows7 & no CD drive. I installed Kubuntu 10.04-netbook from a USB stick that I set up from my desktop computer.

Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)

As a newbie, I am not sure how this works. I did get the file compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 onto my netbook's desktop file.
I have Kubuntu 10.04 - netbook installed. Do I type this code into Konsole & execute one line at a time? I did the first two lines & got what seem to be errors. Does the netbook version have all the required files?

Can I update the Ubuntu 10.04 - netbook that I have on a USB stick the same way as well?

Or is there a way to just install the newest kernel 2.6.34 that has this new driver already?

(From post #6)

sudo apt-get update
I got ... some index files failed to download ...:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
I got ... couldn't find package build-essential:
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.[/QUOTE]

I'll worry about the wireless after I get the wired network functioning.

[pytheas22]

sls54: the "sudo apt-get" commands aren't working because they expect you to have an Internet connection, and you obviously don't at this time because neither wireless nor wired Internet works. However, if you have an Ubuntu installation CD and a CD drive, you should be able to grab the files you need from there. Put the CD in your drive, then go to System>Administration>Software Sources. Under the "Ubuntu Software" tab, check the box for using your CD as a repository, then press OK. You'll be asked if you want to update your sources list; say yes. It may complain about being unable to download some files; that's alright.

Once the CD has been registered as a repository, type again:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

and it should work this time. With build-essential installed, you can compile the atl1c module from the compat-wireless package using the instructions that you copied below.

If you don't have a CD drive, you can try using the USB stick as a repository but I'm not positive that will work; you may need to have an actual CD. If it doesn't, let me know and we can try another solution.


Or is there a way to just install the newest kernel 2.6.34 that has this new driver already?

I'm not positive which version of the kernel has the module you need, but if you want to try installing a more recent kernel, you can download packages from the Ubuntu kernel PPA (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/). Just download the linux-headers, linux-image and linux-source package for the kernel version you want, transfer them to your Ubuntu computer and double-click them to install (you may need to install them in a certain order; try linux-image first). You'll need to run "sudo update-grub2" after installing the kernel to create an entry for it in your boot menu.

[djschlotte]

@pytheas22 - Doh! I forgot to delete my post. I figured out after finally tracking down a manual online that I had the Cat5 cable plugged into the wrong spot. Who would have though that a port labeled "Broadband" wouldn't have anything to do with broadband. Thanks for your help and time.

[pytheas22]

@pytheas22 - Doh! I forgot to delete my post. I figured out after finally tracking down a manual online that I had the Cat5 cable plugged into the wrong spot. Who would have though that a port labeled "Broadband" wouldn't have anything to do with broadband. Thanks for your help and time.

Haha, well, glad you figured it out!

[altonbr]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make installThen reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1cto insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.

I just wanted to confirm this works on my friend's Dell Inspiron with the following lspci
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)


This is what I ran:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install build-essential
wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2010-08-21.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-*.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe atl1c

And then it worked without rebooting.

THANK YOU!

[pytheas22]

altonbr: thanks for letting us know it worked :) Hopefully in Ubuntu 10.10 this will all be sorted out out-of-the-box and no manual installation will be necessary.

(If any of you who own this hardware have tested Ubuntu 10.10 yet, please let us know your experience.)

[homebound]

I have Toshiba Satellite L655-S5061 laptop. Both wired and wireless adapters don't work; wired adapter doesn't even show up on ifconfig.

I followed the steps mentioned here but still not working. This is what I did, as suggested in various parts in this thread:


hookup a (netgear) wifi usb adapter
perform a full system upgrade
ifconfig only shows two interfaces: loopback and wifi
ran through the steps outlined earlier and shown below:



sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install



reboot
"lshw -c Network" shows
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
ifconfig shows
vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
BROADCAST 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)
So I enabled it ifconfig vboxnet0 up
i rebooted and the adapter became DISABLED again
I re-enabled it but the wired link still not work.


Any help is appreciated.

Btw, how do you insert textboxes???? I tried to put the output in one of them but couldn't figure it out.

Thank you
Michael

[pytheas22]

I have Toshiba Satellite L655-S5061 laptop. Both wired and wireless adapters don't work; wired adapter doesn't even show up on ifconfig.

Could you please post the output of:

lspci -nn

so we can see exactly which type of ethernet chipset you have? I'm guessing yours is different than the ones dealt with earlier in this thread.

The vobxnet0 interface is for VMware or VirtualBox, not your actual ethernet hardware. That will most likely come up as eth0.

As for creating the text boxes for code, you just insert the code, highlight it and press the button with a # symbol on it in the list of tools directly above the box where you enter text. Alternatively, you can manually apply the code tags as below:

code here

[homebound]

Hi pytheas22,

Thank you for the help.


user@bibi:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
user@bibi:~$ uname -mr
2.6.32-24-generic i686
user@bibi:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate [1022:9601]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:9602]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 41)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a0]
00:16.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:16.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8172] (rev 10)
user@bibi:~$ ifconfig -a
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:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2464 (2.4 KB) TX bytes:2464 (2.4 KB)

vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
BROADCAST 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)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:7c:8f:0d:ad:3f
inet addr:10.42.43.1 Bcast:10.42.43.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::227c:8fff:fe0d:ad3f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2308 (2.3 KB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:f8768000-f8768100

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c0:3f:0e:3f:a7:5a
inet addr:10.50.202.29 Bcast:10.50.203.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
inet6 addr: fe80::c23f:eff:fe3f:a75a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:235016 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:134599 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:330877098 (330.8 MB) TX bytes:12628963 (12.6 MB)

user@bibi:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 802.11bg ESSID:"eaglerising" Nickname:"rtl8191SEVA2"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency=2.457 GHz Cell: 22:87:52:BF:42:57
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
Retry:on RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"SFHQ"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:24:6C:AE:71:61
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-39 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.

user@bibi:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
aes_i586 7268 1
aes_generic 26863 1 aes_i586
ipt_MASQUERADE 1407 1
xt_state 1098 1
ipt_REJECT 1928 2
xt_tcpudp 2011 4
iptable_filter 2271 1
nf_nat_h323 5077 0
nf_conntrack_h323 46926 1 nf_nat_h323
nf_nat_pptp 1920 0
nf_conntrack_pptp 4413 1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_conntrack_proto_gre 4021 1 nf_conntrack_pptp
nf_nat_proto_gre 1259 1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_nat_tftp 716 0
nf_conntrack_tftp 2893 1 nf_nat_tftp
nf_nat_sip 5108 0
nf_conntrack_sip 15389 1 nf_nat_sip
nf_nat_irc 1124 0
nf_conntrack_irc 3332 1 nf_nat_irc
nf_nat_ftp 1836 0
nf_conntrack_ftp 5381 1 nf_nat_ftp
iptable_nat 4414 1
nf_nat 15735 9 ipt_MASQUERADE,nf_nat_h323,nf_nat_pptp,nf_nat_prot o_gre,nf_nat_tftp,nf_nat_sip,nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp ,iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 10672 4 iptable_nat,nf_nat
nf_conntrack 61583 18 ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_state,nf_nat_h323,nf_conntrack_h 323,nf_nat_pptp,nf_conntrack_pptp,nf_conntrack_pro to_gre,nf_nat_tftp,nf_conntrack_tftp,nf_nat_sip,nf _conntrack_sip,nf_nat_irc,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_nat_ ftp,nf_conntrack_ftp,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntra ck_ipv4
nf_defrag_ipv4 1073 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
ip_tables 9991 2 iptable_filter,iptable_nat
x_tables 14299 6 ipt_MASQUERADE,xt_state,ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp,iptab le_nat,ip_tables
michael_mic 1732 4
binfmt_misc 6587 1
ppdev 5259 0
vboxnetadp 6326 0
vboxnetflt 15280 0
vboxdrv 190594 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
snd_hda_intel 21941 2
snd_hda_codec 74201 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5412 1 snd_hda_codec
arc4 1153 4
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70662 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
joydev 8708 0
rtl8187 50680 0
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
font 7557 1 fbcon
fglrx 2092908 31
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
agpgart 31724 1 fglrx
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
mac80211 205146 1 rtl8187
vga16fb 11385 1
snd 54148 15 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_ seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
uvcvideo 56990 0
soundcore 6620 1 snd
led_class 2864 1 rtl8187
videodev 34361 1 uvcvideo
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
v4l1_compat 13251 2 uvcvideo,videodev
psmouse 63245 0
cfg80211 126517 2 rtl8187,mac80211
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
shpchp 28820 0
r8192se_pci 447966 0
eeprom_93cx6 1333 1 rtl8187
i2c_piix4 8335 0
serio_raw 3978 0
video 17375 0
output 1871 1 video
lp 7028 0
parport 32635 2 ppdev,lp
usb_storage 39425 0
ahci 32200 2
user@bibi:~$ lshw -c Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 10
serial: 20:7c:8f:0d:ad:3f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xSE driverversion=0015.0127.2010 firmware=62 ip=10.42.43.1 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=802.11bg
resources: irq:16 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:f3000000-f3003fff
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan1
serial: c0:3f:0e:3f:a7:5a
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=10.50.202.29 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 3
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
user@bibi:~$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

wlan1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:24:6C:AE:71:61
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=67/70 Signal level=-43 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"SFHQ"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000013e02b1057
Extra: Last beacon: 4996ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000453464851
IE: Unknown: 010882840B0C12161824
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 2A0102
IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x
IE: Unknown: 2D1A4C101BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1606001B000000FF000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD1E00904C334C101BFFFF0000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000
IE: Unknown: DD1A00904C3406001B000000FF000000000000000000000000 000000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F 00
IE: Unknown: DD0A00037F04010000000000

vboxnet0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

user@bibi:~$

[hungh3]

Just wanna say thank you to pytheas22 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=358340) for the very valuable help in your first page. With your instructions to rbisawa, I was also able to get both my Ethernet and wireless up and working.

I believe some time soon, manufacturers (such as Dell, in my case) would feel a need to put a label like "Ubuntu lucid lynx ready" in the sense that all necessary drivers for the hardware, if not already supported by Ubuntu, must be provided out-of-the-box by that manufacturer :D.

Again, appreciate your kind help, pytheas22.

[pytheas22]

homebound: strangely, your lspci -nn output doesn't mention any devices that look like ethernet cards. These should always be listed by lspci, even if the operating system has no driver available to control them. In your case, however, the only network device described in a Realtek wireless card.

If lspci fails to detect a device, it usually indicates a hardware problem. Is your ethernet card disabled in your BIOS? If you have any other operating systems installed on this computer, do they detect the ethernet?

It looks like you now have your internal wireless is now working, correct?

hungh3: glad it helped you out, and thanks for the feedback :)

[Rodog]

Hi,

I have a problem too with my internet connection, im using the USB Live mode. I have a Dell Laptop N4010.

Using the lastest version of Ubuntu, it doesn't recognize the Wireless networks, also if I connect the ethernet cable just nothing happers, Ubuntu don't recognize it neither, I have a notificacion in the bar that says that I can install a new driver but it ask for download, but I can't, no internet.

It's the driver

Broadcom STA wireless driver

I just have followed the steps of the first page without luck.



Output


00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
Can someone help me please? :(

[homebound]

From Pytheas22

If lspci fails to detect a device, it usually indicates a hardware problem. Is your ethernet card disabled in your BIOS? If you have any other operating systems installed on this computer, do they detect the ethernet?You are amazing. That was the problem. I had asked someone to help me troubleshoot the problem before finding this thread and he apparently disabled the adapter.

Now, both wire and wireless adapters are working. You are terrific.

Thank you
Michael

[pytheas22]

Rodog: your situation is a bit tricky, but I think we should be able to solve it if you can provide just a bit more information. Can you tell me what the output is if you open a terminal on your Ubuntu computer and type:

uname -a
lshw -C Network

You can save this output to a text file and transfer that file to a computer where you have Internet access.

With this information, we should be able to get the STA driver working, so you'll have wireless. We can fix the ethernet after that if you want wired as well (but I assume wireless is most useful to you).

Michael: glad to hear that solved it :) Enjoy Ubuntu!

[mike909]

Rodog,
Same thing here. I have the same Dell N4010 and Hardware drivers reports "Broadcom STA wireless driver" available. Here's what I did to get it to work:
*try to activate driver, and then selectively install each .deb it complains about not being able to find using "gdebi", the visual package installer. I did this by just manually browsing the ubuntu install CD for the files it complains about not finding. (I couldn't get the CD repository to be used.) After about the third file, you select "activate", and the button goes green (driver in use) and wireless works.
*then sudo apt-get update, and sudo apt-get upgrade. Everything works fine on latest kernal with all updates.
*then I followed the steps on page one to get wired working, and it borked my wireless, but it did get my wired working. (now I have wired, but no wireless).
*Tried to "sudo modprobe wl" but get error inserting wl. dmesg shows: "wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops"
Also the "hardware drivers" page shows the STA driver as "this driver is activated but not currently in use". I tried removing/re-adding but that didn't change anything.
lshw -C Network before the compat wireless driver install showed "driver=wl0" but not after.
So I started with neither wired or wireless, then got wireless, then got wired, but lost wireless. Going to try and poke at it again tomorrow.

[mike909]

*tried sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source to reinstall the bcmwl driver but that didn't work
tried to follow the broadcom readme (after downloading latest broadcom driver from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php ) and followed the readme at http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt which specifically mentions the error messages I get when I try to "insmod wl.ko", but their solution of:
# modprobe lib80211
or
# modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
and then re-try to insmod the wl driver.
# insmod wl.ko
Doesn't work.
*So now I'm thinking of re-installing ubuntu, and getting wireless working with the STA driver, and then trying to get wired working in a different manner (not using the compat-wireless package).
Open to ideas.

[pytheas22]

*So now I'm thinking of re-installing ubuntu, and getting wireless working with the STA driver, and then trying to get wired working in a different manner (not using the compat-wireless package).

That's what I'd do.

I don't have any of this hardware myself, but my suggestion would be to get the wireless working using the STA driver, then try driving the ethernet using ndiswrapper (usually ndiswrapper is used for wireless cards but it should work equally well for ethernet devices).

I'm pretty sure the overall issue is that when you compile compat-wireless, it rebuilds your lib80211.ko module, among others. The version of lib80211.ko that compat-wireless wants to use is incompatible with the STA driver for some reason. So the STA driver and compat-wireless simply can't coexist happily.

In contrast, the STA driver and ndiswrapper should get along, because neither of them modifies the stock lib80211.ko modules that ships with your system. By using ndiswrapper instead of compat-wireless, you will ensure that all of the modules on which the STA driver depends are left intact. As a bonus, you will not have to worry about recompiling compat-wireless each time you upgrade your kernel.

You seem to know what you're doing but if you need more specific instructions on how to get ndiswrapper set up for your ethernet card, let me know.

[marconbr]

Hi,

I've been facing problems with my wired internet connection. I have a dell 1318 laptop with broadcom internet card and an Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit installed with a Windows Vista boot. My wireless internet connection works fine, but the auto eth0 connection in Ubuntu isn't working - in the connection tab it is shown as not managed. It can be discarded any bios issues (I guess) since both wired and wireless connections work in the windows boot.
Here goes the uname -a and the lshw -class network


#uname -a
Linux ******* 2.6.32-24-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 19 01:38:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

#lshw -class network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 03
serial: 00:24:2b:bb:8c:0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f6cfc000-f6cfffff memory:f0000000-f00fffff(prefetchable)
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 duplex=half firmware=sb v3.04 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:17 memory:f69f0000-f69fffff


Even after using the "ifconfig eth0 up", so changing the above wired network status to enabled, still I don't have any wired connection.

Thanks in advance and I hope anybody can help me.

[mike909]

my suggestion would be to get the wireless working using the STA driver, then try driving the ethernet using ndiswrapper (usually ndiswrapper is used for wireless cards but it should work equally well for ethernet devices).

Pytheas,
I'm thinking of ndiswrapper as a "last resort". What I'd like to try first is the following official driver from atheros:
http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
also, not exactly sure how to use the following, but looks like someone did some work already to get this working:
http://www.at.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/ethernet/

Will post back with my results.

[pytheas22]

marconbr: if you type:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

with the ethernet plugged in, do you get a connection? If you do, the second command ("sudo dhclient eth0" will tell you you have been granted an IP address). This assumes your wired network uses dhcp to assign address dynamically.

If dhclient doesn't get you an address, what is the output of:

dmesg | grep -e tg3 -e ssb -e eth0

mike909: I agree that a native driver would be preferable to ndiswrapper--I didn't realize any existed for this device that didn't require installing the whole compat-wireless stack.

I imagine either the driver from Atheros or the one from http://www.at.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/ethernet/ would work. I just did a quick installation of the latter (just wanted to see if it would compile) and it built and installed fine by running:

wget http://www.at.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/ethernet/AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.6.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf AR81*
make
sudo make install

I now have a module named atl1e that says it supports your ethernet device, according to "modinfo atl1e".

[mike909]

I now have a module named atl1e that says it supports your ethernet device, according to "modino atl1e".
Cool, definitely going to try it as soon as possible and report back. Hopefully this will be tonight. Thanks for looking at that for me.

[JamieWrites]

Just a quick question before I go back to where the solutions were posted and I try those out - my problem is that my ethernet worked at first, but then when I used the USB connection to my router (I've only got one ethernet connection and it usually goes into my desktop PC) the next time I tried the ethernet connection it didn't work.

Is that the same problem or a different problem? I couldn't find a solution on the search forums for that specific issue, and no-one responded to the thread I started - so apologies if I'm hijacking with an unrelated issue.

Cheers,

Jamie

[marconbr]

Thanks for the reply, pytheas22.

Well, after typing

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

It doesn't apear to happen anything, and still no signal of the wired connection. Even if turn off the wireless connection I won't get the wired connection.

So, when I type

sudo dhclient eth0

I get:

There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 2147
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.170 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.170 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.170 -- renewal in 472060 seconds.


and when I type:

dmesg | grep -e tg3 -e ssb -e eth0

I get

[ 0.848346] tg3.c:v3.102 (September 1, 2009)
[ 0.848381] tg3 0000:09:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 0.848396] tg3 0000:09:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.671847] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95906) rev c002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
[ 1.671851] eth0: attached PHY is 5906 (10/100Base-TX Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
[ 1.671854] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 1.671856] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 703.356945] tg3 0000:09:00.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 703.389949] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 705.254779] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 705.254785] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
[ 705.255657] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 715.880120] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 725.560293] bridge-eth0: up
[ 725.560299] bridge-eth0: attached
[ 793.173902] tg3: eth0: Link is down.
[ 793.223570] bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge
[ 793.260133] bridge-eth0: down
[ 793.260144] bridge-eth0: detached
[ 871.623448] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 871.623453] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
[ 871.650350] bridge-eth0: up
[ 871.650357] bridge-eth0: attached
[ 1135.088199] bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge
[ 1135.100064] bridge-eth0: down
[ 1135.100075] bridge-eth0: detached
[ 1246.112804] bridge-eth0: up
[ 1246.112810] bridge-eth0: attached

[pytheas22]

Just a quick question before I go back to where the solutions were posted and I try those out - my problem is that my ethernet worked at first, but then when I used the USB connection to my router (I've only got one ethernet connection and it usually goes into my desktop PC) the next time I tried the ethernet connection it didn't work.

Is that the same problem or a different problem? I couldn't find a solution on the search forums for that specific issue, and no-one responded to the thread I started - so apologies if I'm hijacking with an unrelated issue.

That sounds like a different problem. Please start a new thread, let me know the URL and I'll reply there.

marconbr: the command "sudo dhclient eth0" got you an IP address, which is good--this means your driver and interface are working.

Your dmesg mentions an ethernet bridge. I have no idea where that came from, but I'm wondering if you accidentally created a bridge which is causing routing problems and preventing you from accessing the Internet, even though you're connected. What is the output of:

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
route

[marconbr]

Well, I remember I couldn't use the wireless connection when I did the upgrade to Lucid, so this bridge may habe been created when I did some fix - but I'm not so sure now.

Here goes the outputs :

ifconfig

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2b:bb:8c:0c
inet addr:192.168.0.104 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:2bff:febb:8c0c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3409
TX packets:3697 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4129377 (4.1 MB) TX bytes:612169 (612.1 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

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:9963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1610687 (1.6 MB) TX bytes:1610687 (1.6 MB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.13.1 Bcast:172.16.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.37.1 Bcast:192.168.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
BROADCAST 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

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2b:bb:8c:0c
inet addr:192.168.0.104 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:2bff:febb:8c0c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3527
TX packets:3773 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4186277 (4.1 MB) TX bytes:625453 (625.4 KB)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000

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:10428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1718608 (1.7 MB) TX bytes:1718608 (1.7 MB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.13.1 Bcast:172.16.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.37.1 Bcast:192.168.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.37.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 eth1
172.16.13.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth1
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

[mike909]

Ok, well in regard to the N4010 network adapter issues:
The good: The official atheros drivers work great for the wired lan connection (AR8152). Note, the modified ones do not work (I can provide more detail on why those ones fail on request).
The Bad: fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.1 I can't get wireless (bcm 4727) to work. I've tried the STA driver that comes w/ ubuntu, and I've also tried the broadcom ones from: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Both have the same result, the install completes and it appears to function (lshw shows it working with wl1 for STA, or wl0 with broadcom drivers) but I can't actually connect to any wireless networks. Network manager doesn't show any available, and manually trying to onnect doesn't work. iwlist <int> scan doesn't work either (eth0 failed to read scan data : invalid argument )
So, in conclusion I can get wired working with official Atheros driver, no problem, but can't get wireless working.
Worst part about this, I had wireless working fine before, no idea what's changed (maybe going to install 10.04?)

EDIT: ok, you need to disable the toggle switch for wlan in the BIOS. Going to try and make a new post detailing exactly what to do for everyone owning one of these laptops or a laptop with one of these NIC's.

[mike909]

Ok, so for all owners of this N4010 here's how to get both wired & wireless working:
lspci showing: broadcom corporation device 4727 (rev 01)
Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
---Wireless-------:
1. Disable the wlan toggle switch in BIOS
2. Enable the STA drivers via ubuntu "restricted drivers" (system-->administration-->Hardware Drivers)
Note: if you don't do the Wired NIC first, you'll need to browse the ubuntu cd manually for the packages that it complains about not finding. You can just double click them and let GDebi install them for you (there are just 3 of them)
3.restart
-----Wired------:
1. Download official Atheros driver, from their website: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx (file: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz)
2. tar -xvf AR*
3. make
4. sudo make install
5. restart

Done.
NOTE: you will not need to re-install wireless drivers with each kernel update, but you WILL need to do that for the wired nic (just make/make install again).

[pytheas22]

mike909: glad you figured it out and thanks for explaining what you did. Being able to install just the Atheros driver, without compat-wireless, should make this a lot easier for everyone affected. Hopefully in the next release of Ubuntu this ethernet chip will be supported out-of-the-box.

marconbr: I'm not positive what's wrong, as it doesn't actually look like you have any bridged interfaces. Would you mind please disabling your wireless, then running the following commands (in this order) and posting the output:

ifconfig
sudo dhclient eth0
ping -c 3 192.168.0.1
ping -c 3 google.com
dmseg | grep -e eth
lshw -C Network
sudo ethtool eth0

Before running these commands, you should also install the package ethtool by running:

sudo apt-get install ethtool

Hopefully these commands will provide a better clue as to what's wrong. It's possible something strange is going on with your virtual interfaces, vmnet1 and vmnet8, or that something's wrong with your ethernet driver.

[JamieWrites]

That sounds like a different problem. Please start a new thread, let me know the URL and I'll reply there.

Thanks, the thread I began was http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9513085#post9513085

Cheers,

Jamie

[marconbr]

Thanks for all the efforts, pytheas22. After typing the sequence of commands you asked me the wired connection was apparently reestablished. Anyway, I'm posting down the outputs you asked me, as they might be useful:

ifconfig

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:19811 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19811 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3504343 (3.5 MB) TX bytes:3504343 (3.5 MB)

vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
inet addr:172.16.13.1 Bcast:172.16.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.37.1 Bcast:192.168.37.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


sudo dhclient eth0

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.170 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.170 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.170 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.170 -- renewal in 502363 seconds.


ping -c 3 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.391 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.402 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.398 ms

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.391/0.397/0.402/0.004 ms


ping -c 3 google.com

PING google.com (64.233.163.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bs-in-f104.1e100.net (64.233.163.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=13.4 ms
64 bytes from bs-in-f104.1e100.net (64.233.163.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=10.9 ms
64 bytes from bs-in-f104.1e100.net (64.233.163.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=10.1 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.162/11.515/13.468/1.419 ms


dmesg | grep -e eth

[ 1.661835] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95906) rev c002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
[ 1.661839] eth0: attached PHY is 5906 (10/100Base-TX Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
[ 1.661842] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 1.661844] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 13.732407] eth1: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
[ 56.260224] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 177.354040] bridge-eth1: is a Wireless Adapter
[ 177.354046] bridge-eth1: up
[ 177.354051] bridge-eth1: attached
[ 6227.341127] bridge-eth1: disabling the bridge
[ 6227.380099] bridge-eth1: down
[ 6227.380112] bridge-eth1: detached
[ 6377.722945] bridge-eth0: up
[ 6377.724003] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 6377.753671] bridge-eth0: attached
[ 6377.753765] bridge-eth0: disabling the bridge
[ 6377.782673] bridge-eth0: down
[ 6377.782682] bridge-eth0: detached
[ 6379.354599] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 6379.354604] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
[ 6379.355425] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 6379.355684] bridge-eth0: up
[ 6379.355689] bridge-eth0: attached
[ 6389.360052] eth0: no IPv6 routers present


lshw -C Network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 03
serial: 00:24:2b:bb:8c:0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f6cfc000-f6cfffff memory:f0000000-f00fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:23:ae:28:1e:b5
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.102 firmware=sb v3.04 ip=192.168.0.170 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:30 memory:f69f0000-f69fffff


sudo ethtool eth0

Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
Link detected: yes


Thanks again!!

[vampcheah]

hi all,
i just bought a new laptop (toshiba satellite L655).
but i found that the wifi and wired connection totally can't work.


cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false



dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm

[ 10.878522] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 69.554158] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready


ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:b7:8e:1e
UP BROADCAST 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:35

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:476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:36816 (36.8 KB) TX bytes:36816 (36.8 KB)

[pytheas22]

marconbr: I'm glad that helped, although I'm not positive why :) None of the output you posted indicates anything strange or problematic.

If you reboot now, disable the wireless card and plug in the ethernet, does it still not work automatically? If not, does it work if you type:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

Also, what is the output of:

cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

vampcheah: your problem is probably different than that of the other posters here, because you at least have an ethernet interface detected. This thread has also already become pretty long and convoluted, so would you mind please starting a new thread and letting me help you there?

In your new thread, please include the output of these commands, while your ethernet device is plugged in:

lspci -nn
lsusb
lshw -C Network
sudo dhclient eth0

Also, are you sure your network uses dhcp to assign address dynamically? The fact that you have an ethernet interface detected but that it has no IP address makes me suspect that you may need to set the IP address statically.

[vampcheah]

thanks for reply, i creating a thread here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9780759#post9780759

i got another 2 pc and 1 laptop were connected to same network (router), all of them using dhcp to get ip.

[marconbr]

Hey pytheas22, you've anticipated me! :) After rebooting my laptop the wired connection went down - fortunately the two commands you suggested worked and I could reconnect again.

Here is the output you asked:
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

[pytheas22]

Hey pytheas22, you've anticipated me! After rebooting my laptop the wired connection went down - fortunately the two commands you suggested worked and I could reconnect again.

Hmmm, that's a bit strange, but at least you know how to make it work. Just one last question: if you type just:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

are you then able to connect using the NetworkManager applet in the upper-right part of your screen? (You may need to right-click on the applet and select "Enable Networking.")

If you let me know how this goes, I'll tell you how to write a script to bring up the interface automatically when you turn on the computer, so it should "just work."

[mgastelum]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.


Hi, i have the same problem whit Atheros, i follow this steps, but when i type make the terminal show me this:


make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build M=/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31 modules
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
CC [M] /home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat/main.o
In file included from /home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:10,
from <command-line>:0:
/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/include/linux/compat_autoconf.h:1:1: error: unterminated #ifndef
make[3]: *** [/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat/main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31] Error 2
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
make: *** [modules] Error 2


thanks for yours answers.

[pytheas22]

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/build M=/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31 modules
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
CC [M] /home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat/main.o
In file included from /home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:10,
from <command-line>:0:
/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/include/linux/compat_autoconf.h:1:1: error: unterminated #ifndef
make[3]: *** [/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat/main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31/compat] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/chisus/Descargas/compat-wireless-2010-08-31] Error 2
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'

This looks like a problem with the compat-wireless source code. You probably work around it by downloading an earlier version of the code from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/

Another, probably better solution is to install the ethernet driver using the instructions in post 88 of this thread, namely:

1. Download official Atheros driver, from their website: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx (file: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz). Save it to your desktop
2. cd ~/Desktop; tar -xvf AR*
3. make
4. sudo make install
5. restart

[mike909]

Hi, i have the same problem whit Atheros,
I havn't been keeping up with this thread (trying to hash out all other hardware issues with the Dell N4010 --almost there--), but as Pytheas suggested, if you have the same Atheros NIC, then follow post 88, then post your output of "lshw -C Network" here.

[marconbr]

Hmmm, that's a bit strange, but at least you know how to make it work. Just one last question: if you type just:

sudo ifconfig eth0 upare you then able to connect using the NetworkManager applet in the upper-right part of your screen? (You may need to right-click on the applet and select "Enable Networking.")

If you let me know how this goes, I'll tell you how to write a script to bring up the interface automatically when you turn on the computer, so it should "just work."

No, just typing sudo ifconfig eth0 up didn't worked with the Network Manager applet - I still had to type sudo dhclient eth0 to get the wired connection.

[pytheas22]

No, just typing
Code:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

didn't worked with the Network Manager applet - I still had to type
Code:

sudo dhclient eth0

to get the wired connection.

Thanks for that information. To create a script that will run those two commands automatically whenever your computer boots, type these commands:

sudo -s
gedit /etc/init.d/eth0-up.sh

A file will open. Paste these lines into it:

#!/bin/bash

ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient eth0

Then save and close the file, and finish by typing:

chmod +x eth0-up.sh
update-rc.d eth0-up.sh defaults

Now the commands that you need to get the ethernet working should be run automatically each time your computer boots. Let me know if you have trouble.

[NetGeir]

Hello,

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 4820TG and that completed without errors. Then I was checking my wireless, and it did not find any. I have looked in this thread, and that helped a little.

Like I said, I don't have wireless-connection, and therefor I need to install my wireless driver offline. I have placed b43-fwcutter in the right map, and in "Admin -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories" I have checked the "Restricted copyright" on the bottom og that site.

Then I can go into "Hardware Drivers" and there I find one driver: "Broadcom STA wireles driver". Thats probably the one I have to install. When I click "Activate" I got an error:
Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS_Lucid
Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816)]/pool/main/p/
patch/patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb File not found.

How can I fix this?

Thanks for answers!

[pytheas22]

NetGeir: the driver you need should be on the Ubuntu installation CD (assuming you used a CD to install). You first need to enable your CD as a software repository (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#CD-ROM/DVD), then try installing the driver again by clicking "Activate" in Hardware Drivers. If you have trouble, please let me know.

[Srikant.M]

Thanks to all,
With this Forum i resolved my Ethernet problem with "Etheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Ethernet(rev c1)" in Ubuntu
With the help a mobile broadband connection we got all the dependencies by following this process.

:DThanks a lot again.:D):P


Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make installThen reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1cto insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.



HI all

[NetGeir]

pytheas22: That's what I did, maybe I didn't explane it god enought. And when I do that, I get the error like i sayd:

Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS_Lucid
Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816)]/pool/main/p/
patch/patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb File not found.

The installations CD is in, but the files can't be found.

If you want me to check some code in terminal, just let me know.

[pytheas22]

NetGeir: ah, I understand now. That is a bit strange. If you open up your CD to browse the files, can you navigate to the folder ...pool/main/p/patch/? Do you see a file there named patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb and if so can you install it by double-clicking?

If that works, try also going to ...pool/main/g and installing the gcc package, and ...pool/main/m and installing make. Then, go to ...pool/restricted/b and look for packages whose names begin with "bcmwl" and install them.

If this all works, it will get the wireless driver installed for you automatically. If it fails, however, let me know and we'll see about installing it a different way. In that case, it would be helpful to know the output of:

uname -a
lshw -C Network
lspci -nn

[NetGeir]

Hi again,

patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb was finish without errors:
http://i55.tinypic.com/a2xctu.png

I find every file in the folders exept the "make".

When I try to install the gcc package it say that it could not install booth of the files. I guess thats because Ubuntu is looking for the second file on the internet, and not in the folder the other file are in:
http://i56.tinypic.com/fdaijm.png
http://i56.tinypic.com/2afbh92.png

Here is the output of the code:
sondre@sondre-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux sondre-laptop 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 05:14:15 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sondre@sondre-laptop:~$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: c0
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:db400000-db43ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:da400000-da403fff

sondre@sondre-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 18)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port [8086:0045] (rev 18)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] [1002:68c1]
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] [1002:aa60]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet [1969:1073] (rev c0)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
7f:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 05)
7f:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 05)
7f:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 05)
7f:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 05)
7f:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 05)
7f:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 05)

[pytheas22]

NetGeir: can you find the packages 'fakeroot' or 'dkms' on your CD as well? They should be there, I think. If you install them, you should then be able to install 'gcc' without it having to download packages from the Internet.

If this doesn't work, let me know and we can try to get the driver installed another way, but it will be tricky.

[NetGeir]

Fakeroot and dkms has been installed, but when I try to install gcc, I get the same error. It will not install the second file from the folder, but it will try to install it from the network:

http://i52.tinypic.com/eq4ktd.png

I will try anything to get the network, 'cause I really like Ubuntu. Thank you for helping me.

[pytheas22]

NetGeir: I'm not sure why that's happening when you try to install gcc, but let's try a different strategy. I compiled an ethernet driver that should work on your system, using the source code from http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx. To install it, first download the file http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/AR81.tar.gz and transfer it to your Ubuntu computer. Save it on the desktop there. Then run these commands (if this doesn't work as expected, please post all output so I can see what might have gone wrong):

cd ~/Desktop
tar -xzvf AR81.tar.gz
cd AR81
sudo cp src/atl1e.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/
sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

At this point, your ethernet should work and you should be able to connect if you plug it in. If you get this far, you should then be able to get the wireless to work by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases

It will be able to download the files it needs from the Internet, since wacky things seem to be happening with the CD.

Let me know how this goes. If the ethernet doesn't work, please post the output of all of the commands from the first set above, along with:

dmesg | grep -e atl -e eth
lshw -C Network
lsmod | grep atl

[NetGeir]

Okei, this is strange. I did what you say, and then I was finish with "sudo ifconfig eth0 up", I could use the internet. Then I installed the wireless-driver, and had to reboot the computer.

When I then again came in to the "Ubuntu-startup-screen", and after that it all is black. I can't to anything!

It seemed to work, but now it wouldn't startup.

Here is the output that I copied when I was finish install the driver. I don't think you need that though:
sondre@sondre-laptop:~$ cd ~/Skrivebord
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord$ cd AR81
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$ sudo cp src/atl1e.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/
[sudo] password for sondre:
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$ sudo apt-get update
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816.1)/ lucid/main Translation-nb
Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100816.1)/ lucid/restricted Translation-nb
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-nb
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-nb
Ign http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-nb
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-nb
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-nb
Ign http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-nb
Ign http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-nb
Ign http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-nb
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Funnet http://no.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-nb
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-nb
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-nb
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-nb
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Funnet http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Leser pakkelister ... Ferdig
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases
Leser pakkelister ... Ferdig
Skaper oversikt over avhengighetsforhold
Leser tilstandsinformasjon ... Ferdig
bcmwl-modaliases er allerede nyeste versjon.
Følgende NYE pakker vil bli installert:
bcmwl-kernel-source
0 oppgraderte, 1 nylig installerte, 0 å fjerne og 32 ikke oppgradert.
1 pakker ikke fullt installert eller fjernet.
Må hente 0B/896kB med arkiver.
Etter denne operasjonen vil 2*867kB ekstra diskplass bli brukt.
Velger den tidligere fravalgte pakken bcmwl-kernel-source.
(Leser database ... 120715 filer og kataloger er installerte.)
Pakker ut bcmwl-kernel-source (fra .../bcmwl-kernel-source_5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Setter opp b43-fwcutter (1:012-1build1) ...

Setter opp bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu3) ...
Loading new bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-24-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 2.6.32-24-generic
Done.

wl.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/2.6.32-24-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod......

DKMS: install Completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Behandler utløsere for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
sondre@sondre-laptop:~/Skrivebord/AR81$

[pytheas22]

NetGeir: there are a lot of reasons that may have happened and it's hard to know what's at fault without being able to boot the system and see some output.

Did you do anything else (such as apply updates) besides downloading the wireless driver, once you got an Internet connection?

Can you boot to a "recovery mode" prompt (on your Ubuntu boot menu, the second line should be a recovery mode)? If you can get that far, we might be able to try to fix your system.

Otherwise, your only option might be to try reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch, then installing the Internet driver as you did before but without installing the wireless, and rebooting after that to make sure it's not the ethernet driver that's causing problems (it's unlikely that it is).

[venkidwaraka]

Hello,

I tried the method you specified in the first reply of this thread. Where I got stuck up was the selection of at11c driver. It said unsupported driver. Please help. I am ready with the results of all the commands you asked to execute in the previous replies

Here are they:


1)sudo ifconfig -a
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:204 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:204 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16080 (16.0 KB) TX bytes:16080 (16.0 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 72:e4:6a:a1:64:63
BROADCAST 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
================================================== ===============
2)lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
================================================== =========================

3)sudo ifup eth0
Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

================================================== ===============

4)cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

================================================== =========================

5)cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

================================================== ===============

6)dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
Output: Nothing

================================================== ========================

7)lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)

================================================== ===================

8)lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)


Thanks..

[venkidwaraka]

Hello,

Please visit the link

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-February/008808.html
Hope that will fix the issue

Thanks

[mike909]

venkidwaraka,
Have you tried the following steps? (also outlined in this thread)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569966

[pytheas22]

venkidwaraka: as mike909 points out, you can get both your wired and wireless interfaces working using that link.

Another solution is simply to reinstall Ubuntu using the 10.10 version, which you can download from http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.10/. Ubuntu 10.10 is still in beta but should work reasonably well at this point. It comes with a driver for your ethernet card preinstalled, so that will at least work--and once you have ethernet you can easily install the wireless driver by enabling wireless in the System>Administration>Hardware Drivers utility.

I didn't recommend Ubuntu 10.10 earlier in this thread because I wasn't sure if it would work, but I just checked and it definitely will support the AR81 ethernet chips.

[Overloaded]

Hello, have tried the steps described on the first page on this thread with no luck. Its a Acer Aspire One 533 and the network card are Atheros AR8152, I have run the commands listed earlier and are posting the outputs below, any suggestions?

service@service-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:e4:00:92:68:88
inet addr:192.168.2.103 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7ae4:ff:fe92:6888/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3945169 (3.9 MB) TX bytes:372409 (372.4 KB)


service@service-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)


service@service-laptop:~$ sudo ifup eth0
Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.


service@service-laptop:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


service@service-laptop:~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false


service@service-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
service@service-laptop:~$


service@service-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:e4:00:92:68:88
inet addr:192.168.2.103 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7ae4:ff:fe92:6888/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3254 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2554 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3947138 (3.9 MB) TX bytes:374186 (374.1 KB)


service@service-laptop:~$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:57000000-5703ffff ioport:5000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 78:e4:00:92:68:88
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k ip=192.168.2.103 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:56000000-5600ffff


service@service-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)

[mike909]

overloaded, see post 115. That will work for your wired NIC.

[Overloaded]

FANTASTIC, it worked like a charm, you are a real lifesaver!!

[krishnik]

Hi

Ihave the same problem i'm using a dell n4010 laptop got following result when i run sudo lshw -C network

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Broadcom Corporation
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
I have followed your steps but its showing some errors

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/build M=/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic'
CC [M] /home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/compat/main.o
In file included from /home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.h:29,
from <command-line>:0:
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h: In function ‘device_lock’:
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h:147: error: ‘struct device’ has no member named ‘mutex’
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h: In function ‘device_trylock’:
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h:157: error: ‘struct device’ has no member named ‘mutex’
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h: In function ‘device_unlock’:
/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/include/linux/compat-2.6.34.h:167: error: ‘struct device’ has no member named ‘mutex’
make[3]: *** [/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/compat/main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22/compat] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/nikhil/Desktop/compat-wireless-2010-10-22] Error 2

[pytheas22]

krishnik: that's strange. It looks like it could be an issue with the source code. It might help to choose an older version of the code to download from http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/. You have the snapshot from October 22, which may have happened to have errors. The code gets updated every day and some days introduce bugs that prevent it from compiling. It looks like the snapshots from early September worked for others, so I would give those a try.

If that doesn't help, let me know

[Lucasbananas]

Hi guy,

I just bought a new netbook (Acer Aspire one 521) and Installed Ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition. The thing is that I don't have acces to internet since my wired network isn't working and my wireless isn't either. I tried a bunch of things as I have been trying to fix this problem for a few days now. I think the recommendations on post 6 would work, but when I try to install build-essential, it asks me to insert the ubuntu netbook install disk into /cdrom/ in order to install. Since I don't actually have a cdrom on my netbook, I was wondering how I could install build-essential in order to get acces to my ethernet driver.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[pytheas22]

Lucasbananas: I think you can also use a USB installation stick (which I presume you used to install Ubuntu on your netbook) as a repository, but I'm not sure how. You might be able to find instructions via Google.

What you definitely can do, however, is download what you need from http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/build-essential At the bottom of the page there are links to the actual downloads; you need to select the appropriate one depending on whether you have installed 32-bit Ubuntu (i386) or 64-bit (amd64). It will then send you to a list of mirrors; click the link for a mirror close to you and you'll be able to download the file you need.

You also need to do the same for each of the packages listed as dependencies of build-essential, i.e. dpkg-dev, g++, etc.

Once you have all of these files, which should add up to about a half-dozen .deb packages, transfer them to your Ubuntu computer and save them on your desktop there. Then open a terminal and run the commands:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i *deb

This will install all of the packages. After that, you should be able to compile the driver using the instructions in post #6.

Alternatively, you could also just upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10, which should support your hardware out-of-the-box.

[Lucasbananas]

Thanks alot for the link and the info, I didn't know that it could be done that way!

[pytheas22]

Yes, it can get tedious having to download all those individual packages and then transport them to your Ubuntu computer, but it can be done :)

[Clodzilla]

I have run the steps from the first post and have now gotten the OS to detect my Ethernet card, but I cannot figure out the scripts to make and install the driver. I will post information as necessary for the help.

Thanks!

[Clodzilla]

Well, I am officially a tard! I had the wrong compat file. My wired network works now and will attempt to get the wireless working as well once I download all the updates. THANKS for the help!!!!

[pytheas22]

Clodzilla: good to hear. Let me know if you have any more trouble.

[ktechman]

When the kernel gets updated will these changes hold or will I have to reinstall the patch?

[pytheas22]

When the kernel gets updated will these changes hold or will I have to reinstall the patch?

You would have to reinstall the driver from source. It's good to keep a clean copy of the source code on hand for this purpose.

Also note that if you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10, your wired ethernet should work out-of-the-box (assuming you have the same hardware and suffer from the same issue as the others in this thread).

[ktechman]

Are there plans to include the wired part of the patch in any of the kernel updates? And if I use this method (from the compat wireless team) what are the drawbacks?

Getting compat-wireless on Ubuntu

With Ubuntu you have the option of either installing compat-wireless yourself or of installing the package that provides it built by the Ubuntu kernel team. The Ubuntu package that carries compat-wireless is called linux-backport-modules and it has more backported modules than just your wireless subsystem. Its updated whenever major updates are pushed out into the wireless-testing git tree.

# For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid users:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid

# For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty users:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

# For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic users:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic

# For Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid users (one of the following depending on the installed kernel. Most user should choose generic):
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic-pae
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-preempt
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-server

Ktechman

[pytheas22]

Are there plans to include the wired part of the patch in any of the kernel updates? And if I use this method (from the compat wireless team) what are the drawbacks?

I'm not sure whether the backports-modules packages would provide the ethernet driver you need. You can always install it, reboot and test; it's easy to uninstall later if it doesn't help.

I can't really think of any drawbacks to installing the backports-modules packages, other than that I'm not positive whether they would contain the driver you need.

Also keep in mind that if you upgrade to 10.10, your ethernet should work out-of-the-box there, because the 10.10 kernel has the right driver built in.

[ktechman]

The reason for staying with 10.04 is keeping all of my customers on the same page, in the past they were spread out over many different releases which meant that I had to keep several different releases on my laptop. As a matter of fact the 8.04 release has the same problem with the ath9k driver, which is present on my laptop, I believe I will try the backports module on it to see if it holds my wireless driver in place without having to reinstall.

Ktechman

[ktechman]

If I reinstall the present kernel will that be sufficient to test whether or not the driver will hold in the future?

Ktechman

[pytheas22]

If I reinstall the present kernel will that be sufficient to test whether or not the driver will hold in the future?

Sorry, I'm not positive what you mean. Are you referring to the non-backports kernel, or the Ubuntu 10.10 kernel that you would install on Ubuntu 10.04, or something else?

I agree that staying on Ubuntu 10.04 makes sense if you've got a broad range of machines to support. It's LTS anyway.

[jopeto]

Hello, I'm running into trouble with my wired internet connection and I thought I would post to this thread, as I think my problem is more or less related.

I'm using Ubutu 10.4 LTS 64 bit edition and recently after a restart my wired internet connection stopped working. I am connected to the internet via LAN and when I am in Ubuntu, the orange light in the back where the ethernet cable is plugged in is blinking even though I don't have internet connectivity. I have a dual boot machine and I can access the internet via Windows XP. Furthermore I have used this computer and connection for over 3 years now and have never had this problem before. Also, I'm not using wireless and never have, just the wired LAN connection.

When in GNOME I go to System -> Preferences -> Network Connections in the Wired tab I see Auto eth0 and in the column 'last used' it says 'never', which is strange since I have used it pretty much every day for over three years.

I looked at various forums online and it seems that other people have the same problem, however I could not find the solution. Here are various posts on the matter:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613055
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1573496
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1539746
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1487820
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1073970.html

I also tried booting from previous versions of the kernel from the list when Ubuntu starts up, however to no avail.

Below I provide the outputs for the commands which were asked in previous posts in this thread:

----------------------------------------------
Command:
ifconfig eth0 up
Output:
(no output)

Command:
route -n
Output:
(returns empty list)

Command:
host www.google.com
Output:
;;connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Command:
ping www.google.com
Output:
ping: unknown host www.google.com

Command:
ifconfig -a
Output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:a0:65:a8:97
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:a0ff:fe65:a897/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:981493 (981.4 KB) TX bytes:1876 (1.8 KB)
Interrupt:16

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:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10104 (10.1 KB) TX bytes:10104 (10.1 KB)

Command:
cat /etc/network/interfaces
Output:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Command:
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Output:
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

no-auto-default=00:1a:a0:65:a8:97,

[ifupdown]
managed=false

Command:
dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
Output:
[ 3.327753] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95754) rev b002] (PCI Express) MAC address 00:1a:a0:65:a8:97
[ 3.327757] eth0: attached PHY is 5787 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
[ 3.327760] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 3.327762] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
[ 29.691277] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 31.438141] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 31.438144] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[ 31.476586] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 41.970981] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Command:
sudo dhclient eth0
Output:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1a:a0:65:a8:97
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1a:a0:65:a8:97
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Command:
sudo lshw -C Network
Output:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1a:a0:65:a8:97
size: 100MB/s
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=3.102 duplex=full firmware=5754-v3.15 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:27 memory:dfbf0000-dfbfffff

Command:
lspci -nn
Output:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2990] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2992] (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2993] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2810] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:2820] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:2825] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:167a] (rev 02)

----------------------------------------------

When I read this thread, I followed the advice given in post #6, however my internet is still not working. That's why I ran followed post #32 and ran sudo make uninstall.

I guess the reason why it the proposed solution didn't work is that my problem is slightly different. My internet connection was working fine for 3 years (I started with ubuntu 7.10 and upgraded to every single new version) and suddenly it stopped working now. In addition my hardware is different, if I read the commands correctly my internet interface is "NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express". If anyone has any suggestions what I should do to fix my problem, it would be greatly appreciated.

If all else fails and I decide to reinstall Ubuntu, is there a way to do that without reformatting my harddrive? In other words would I lose all my documents, such as my old emails stored in local folders in Thunderbird as well as bookmarks in firefox?

Thanks a lot for your help!

PS. If my problem is different than the one discussed in this thread, I'll be happy to repost a new one.

[pytheas22]

jopeto: yes, I think your problem is different than the others in this thread. The problem of other posters had to do with Ubuntu not having a driver available for their ethernet hardware (which was different from the hardware you have), so they had to compile a driver manually. In your case, the device is being brought up and it doesn't appear like the driver is the issue.

The one thing in the output you posted that looks out-of-place to me is the line in the nm-system-settings.conf file that reads "no-auto-default=00:1a:a0:65:a8:97," As I understand it, that line would normally tell the system not to manage your ethernet connection, which could certainly be the problem.

So, I'd suggest opening up the configuration file by typing:

sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Then put a hash (#) in front of the line in question so it looks like:

#no-auto-default=00:1a:a0:65:a8:97,

This will comment it out so the system will ignore that line, but leave it there so you can always uncomment it later if you need to.

After this, save the file, then reboot your computer. Do you have better luck now? If not, we can try some other things.

By the way, you're positive you use dynamic IP addresses served via DHCP and not static ones, correct? If you don't know what this means, you probably use DHCP.

[jopeto]

Hi pytheas22, thanks a lot for your quick reply!

I just tried your suggestion by commenting the above line, however unfortunately that didn't solve my problem. I still cannot connect to the internet.

Yes, I am quite sure that I am using a dynamically assigned IP address via DHCP. I can double check that on Monday and will get back to you in case I'm wrong.

One additional piece of information - I just tried booting from the Ubuntu 10.4 LTS 64 bit live CD and I could not connect to the internet even in that case. Then I booted from the same live CD from a different computer connected via the same ethernet cable and I could connect to the internet without a problem. I'm wondering if there is some problem with the hardware address of my computer on the network, but I cannot check that before Monday as well.

If in the meantime you have any suggestions please let me know.

Thanks a lot once again for your help!

[pytheas22]

jopeto: hmmm, that is very bizarre that it doesn't work under a live CD either. I wonder if you could connect if you spoofed your MAC address, so that the hardware address of your computer would appear different on the network.

You could change the MAC by typing:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:26:b9:06:2a:e2
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

This should change the MAC address to 00:26:b9:06:2a:e2 (which is just a random one I made up). You can verify that it's changed correctly by typing "ifconfig eth0".

With the address changed, try connecting (using either NetworkManager or "sudo dhclient eth0" from the command line). Any luck?

[jopeto]

Hi pytheas22,

Thanks once again for your suggestion. I tried it but unfortunately spoofing my MAC address didn't work either (neither when I booted from the hard drive nor when I booted from the live CD). Tomorrow I'll check with the network guys whether there is some problem on their side and will also take my computer home to check whether I can connect to the internet there. I'll let you know.

Thanks once again for your help!

[pytheas22]

jopeto: hmmm, strange. Please let me know what the network guys say, and if you're able to connect using ethernet in a different location.

[Scuzzbuntu]

@ pytheas22 perhaps you could help me too. I have the same problem with the same results from all commands until #3 where on inputting

cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

mine has no-auto-default=00:26:b9:e7:e0:57 (my physical address obviously)

any helpful hints??

[pytheas22]

Scuzzbuntu: were things also working fine for you, but then stopped for some reason? Does spoofing a MAC address make any difference? And just to confirm that you have the same exact hardware, your "lspci -nn" output includes this exact line:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:167a] (rev 02)

correct?

If all of the above is true, then I would assume this is a hardware (and/or driver)-specific problem, though that still doesn't explain why the connection apparently worked fine at one point, but then stopped, and still fails under an older live CD.

If this is indeed a hardware/driver problem, then it might help to try driving the card with ndiswrapper instead of the native Linux driver. You'd need to blacklist the tg3 module, which is the native Linux driver for your ethernet card, and then install ndiswrapper and load Windows drivers for your ethernet device into it. You should be able to find instructions to do all this elsewhere on the Internet, but let me know if you're unable.

Also note that you'll probably find ndiswrapper discussed in most contexts involving wireless cards, but it should work for ethernet devices just as well.

[bmeacham]

-----Wired------:
1. Download official Atheros driver, from their website: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx (file: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz)
2. tar -xvf AR*
3. make
4. sudo make install
5. restartI had a similar problem with a new Acer Aspire One D255. Atheros ethernet adapter was not recognized. When I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, it was fixed. Thanks, Ubuntu team!

[jopeto]

Dear pytheas22,

Thanks a lot for all your help. Sorry I didn't get back to you but I was away for some time due to an illness. Hope it didn't come off as rude.

I spent quite a bit of time on my computer - the network guys said that on their side they don't see any blocks or anything else that might prevent me from connecting. Then I took my computer home and the strangest thing was that I was able to connect to the internet from home. Everything just worked automatically. I was really puzzled and finally decided that it would take less time if I reinstall everything as opposed to try and find out a solution. So I did a backup, wiped up my harddrive and reinstalled the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. Now it's working fine and I even have the feeling that it might be a bit faster than the 64 bit version.

Anyway, I'm all set now, although I didn't really understand what was the problem. Thanks a lot once again for all your prompt and thorough help!

[pytheas22]

jopeto: no worries at all, but thanks for letting me know how you made out. Sometimes it just makes more sense to deploy the wipe-it-all-out-and-start-from-scratch approach. In any case, I'm glad you got it working and if you run into any more trouble, let me know.

[wijit]

hi pytheas22.
i followed your suggestion that you gave to rbisawa. it put my new dell n4030 on the wired network. you are great. keep going.:D

[wijit]

hi pytheas22.
i followed your suggestion that you gave to rbisawa. it put my new dell n4030 on the wired network. you are great. keep going.:D

[wijit]

hi pytheas22.
i followed your suggestion that you gave to rbisawa. it put my new dell n4030 on the wired network. you are great. keep going.:D

[wijit]

hi pytheas22.
i followed your suggestion that you gave to rbisawa. it put my new dell n4030 on the wired network. you are great. keep going.:D

[iykrichie]

thanks man u also solved my atheros ethernet issue.. i am very grateful

[Omegus]

Hey hey, I was reading about how to downgrade the kernel and did every thing the first guy on the thread did so here is my info. I'm still stuck .

ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:62:6d:81:95:de
inet addr:192.168.2.12 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST 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:45 Base address:0x6000

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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB) TX bytes:1200 (1.2 KB)



lspci


00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [RAID5 mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:15.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 43a0
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB368 IDE controller


ifup eth0

ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied


cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.12
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.255


cat /etc/networkManager/nm-system-setting.conf

cat: /etc/networkManager/nm-system-setting.conf: No such file or directory


lshw -c network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 6c:62:6d:81:95:de
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI ip=192.168.2.12 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:45 ioport:c800(size=256) memory:fdfff000-fdffffff memory:fdff8000-fdffbfff memory:fe8e0000-fe8fffff




and thats all I got so far.

[pytheas22]

Omegus: your problem looks different. Your ethernet card is being brought up without a problem, but I guess you can't connect? If you could please post the output of the following commands, that should help figure out how to resolve your situation:

dmesg | grep -e rt8 -e rtl -e eth0
sudo dhclient eth0
uname -a
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Also, were you able to connect in the past on this system (with Ubuntu installed) and the problem just started occurring recently, or did ethernet never work for you under Ubuntu on this computer?

Finally, you have your /etc/network/interfaces file configured to use a static IP address. Are you sure you need a static IP? In most situations these days everyone uses dynamic IPs; if your router is not configured to serve static IP addresses but you're trying to use one, that's probably what's wrong.

[Omegus]

Hey thanks for the help. To answer your questions . No I recently bought this computer online at Ibuypower.com and I Installed Maverick . I noticed that I had no connection with the wired and the network card isnt wireless so I used my laptop to figure out the problem on the net using the ubuntu search engine. Found like 14 different solutions to the problem one being that i need to set up a Static IP. I am not sure if my router is a requires one. It is a 2wire gateway wireless router with 4 ethernet ports model Number 2701HG-G .

As for the output you wanted me to grab here it is.

dmesg | grep -e rt8 -e rtl -e eth0
[ 2.964288] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc900117e0000, 6c:62:6d:81:95:de, XID 081000c0 IRQ 45
[ 7.510208] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 7.510943] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

sudo dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:62:6d:81:95:de
Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:62:6d:81:95:de
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

uname -a
Linux ultimoore-MS-7642 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

no-auto-default=6c:62:6d:81:95:de,

[ifupdown]
managed=false

I really hope this helps I have racking my brain for 2 weeks trying to figure it out on my own.

[pytheas22]

Omegus: thanks for the information. At least part of the problem is probably that NetworkManager is configured to ignore your ethernet card. To fix that, type:

sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

to open the configuration file in a text editor. Then put a # in front of the line that reads "no-auto-default=6c:62:6d:81:95:de," so it looks like:

#no-auto-default=6c:62:6d:81:95:de,

This comments out that line. Now save the file and close the text editor.

Next, I would also comment out the static IP settings in your /etc/network/interfaces file. So open that file in a text editor with:

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

and put a # in front of all of the non-blank lines except these two:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


Save that file and close the program.

Finally, right-click on the NetworkManager applet in the system tray (which by default would be in the upper-right part of your screen) and select "Edit Connections." Under the "Wired" tab, if there is an entry called "Auto eth0," select it and click edit; otherwise click the button to add a new entry. In the box that pops up, go to the "IPv4 Settings" tab, switch the method to manual and enter your static IP settings there: address 192.168.2.12, netmask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.2.255. You should also set your DNS server appropriately (probably it's 192.168.2.255).

With the changes above, NetworkManager will manage your connection using a static IP, which should work better. Previously you had the static IP configured differently, and although it should have worked, sometimes NetworkManager doesn't play nicely with configurations like that; I suspect it might work better if you just let NetworkManager run the show.

After all this, reboot your computer and see if you can connect to websites after the reboot. If it still doesn't work, please post the output of:

route
ifconfig
ping -c 3 209.85.146.105

It would also be useful to know what happens if you type these commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

If you're able to connect to websites after running these commands, let me know. If these commands break your connectivity (assuming you have any to begin with), just reboot and you'll be pushed back to the default settings.

[Omegus]

Ok It seems to be progressing well it now shows me that my ethernet is not connected now....lol but still not connected. Here are the results:

route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface


ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:62:6d:81:95:de
UP BROADCAST 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:45 Base address:0x6000

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:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:960 (960.0 B) TX bytes:960 (960.0 B)

ping -c 3 209.85.146.105
connect: Network is unreachable

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service network-manager stop

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) utility, e.g. stop network-manager
network-manager stop/waiting


sudo dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:62:6d:81:95:de
Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:62:6d:81:95:de
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.




Ok I have a quick question my address for my ethernet card is 6c:62:6d:81:95:de the address for my router is 00:25:3c:34:30:c8. which one am I spose to use for the connection?

[pytheas22]

Thanks again for the output. It helps to narrow down the possibilities of what could be wrong.

If you left-click on the NetworkManager applet, you should now see an entry under the "Wired Connection" section that you can select by left-clicking. If you do that, does it then tell you you're connected? With a static IP, I think it should at least say you're connected at that point (whether or not you can actually connect to external websites would be a different question).

I'd also be interested to know the output of these commands (in this order):

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.12
ping 192.168.2.155

You should reboot after running these so that the system will forget the changes they make.

[Omegus]

to answer the question about network manager it does show a wired network but it said that its not connected. or wait a second......its says disconnected .

sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
Code:
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service network-manager stop

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the stop(8) utility, e.g. stop network-manager
network-manager stop/waiting

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.12

nothing happened


ping 192.168.2.155

now i wasnt sure if you ment .255 or .155 so I did both and both got to
the 254th ping and it said no response. ill recopy it in a min .

but this is what I have so far.

[pytheas22]

now i wasnt sure if you ment .255 or .155 so I did both and both got to
the 254th ping and it said no response. ill recopy it in a min .

Sorry, you're right--I mean 255. I also should have told you that you only had to let it try to ping a few times. Sorry if you waited 254 times!

It's strange that you don't get a ping response from the router even after setting the address manually using ifconfig. When you set the address manually, you should always be able at least to ping the router (you can't access external sites without also setting the gateway and netmask, but those aren't necessary for talking just to the router).

Based on the absence of a ping response, there are only three possible conclusions to draw:

1. there's a hardware problem somewhere in the connection between the router and the computer--probably either because you're using a bad ethernet cable, or you have the cable plugged into a port on the router that's dead. You can try swapping cables or ports to check for this, if you haven't already. Also, do you see lights flashing on the ethernet port in the back of your Ubuntu computer, and on the router? If not, it's probably a hardware issue involving the cable or the router port
2. the IP address you set (192.168.2.12) is not valid from the router's point of view. Are you sure that's the right address that your router wants you to set statically?
3. the router's IP address is not actually the one you pinged (192.168.2.255). Are you sure that's the right address? If it is, you should be able to type that address into a Web browser from a computer connected to the router and the router configuration page would show up

If you can rule out (1) and think (2) or (3) might be the problem, we could probably figure out the right IP settings for your network if you posted the output of the command "ipconfig /all" from the terminal of a Windows computer connected to your router, or of "/sbin/ifconfig" from a Linux or OS X computer. If you have any other computers on your network from which you could run those commands, please post the output and hopefully we can get to the bottom of this.

[Omegus]

the biggest problem is that every computer in the house runs on Ubuntu. All the laptops are obviously wireless. so they automaticly connect after i put in the WEP key . What ill do is download windows most likely xp or something dual boot and ill do the Ip ping/all. if that fails Ill go through all the steps that ill take. If it is a hardware problem ill switch the ports if nothing happens ill switch the cables. If that fails ill keep the new cable in and do a manual reset. after that ill try and see if it is the IP and then ill get back to you.

[pytheas22]

the biggest problem is that every computer in the house runs on Ubuntu. All the laptops are obviously wireless. so they automaticly connect after i put in the WEP key . What ill do is download windows most likely xp or something dual boot and ill do the Ip ping/all. if that fails Ill go through all the steps that ill take. If it is a hardware problem ill switch the ports if nothing happens ill switch the cables. If that fails ill keep the new cable in and do a manual reset. after that ill try and see if it is the IP and then ill get back to you.

Actually don't worry about downloading Windows, unless you already have. You could get the same information from Ubuntu with the commands:

ifconfig
route

I basically just want to know which gateway, netmask and subnet the other computers in your house are using. It's possible those values are different for the wireless clients than for the wired ones, but in most cases I'd expect them to be the same.

If you've already gotten the information from Windows, that's fine as well, but I hope you didn't have to go to all that trouble. Sorry I wasn't able to respond sooner than today...

[Omegus]

cool I tried windows and it was an epic fail on their part...curropt file. Anyways This is the info from My laptop that I am communicating from for the past while.

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0d:76:48:6e
UP BROADCAST 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:45 Base address:0xe000

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:bf:62:d3:2e
inet addr:192.168.2.12 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:bfff:fe62:d32e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4411 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2904 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5581267 (5.5 MB) TX bytes:365480 (365.4 KB)


route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 wlan0
default mymodem 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0

[pytheas22]

Thanks for the information. At least part of the problem you were having is probably that your laptop (the one you've been posting from) looks like it has the IP address 192.168.2.12, which is the same one you were trying to assign to the desktop. They can't both have the same address and be turned on at the same time. Unless you always had the laptop off when the desktop was up, that explains part of the problem.

I'm not sure it's the whole problem, however, because probably you should still have been able to ping the router even if there was an IP conflict for the 192.168.2.12 address. The output of the "route" command should have told me the address of your gateway, except I screwed up and forgot that to get the actual IP address of the gateway (rather than just the name), you have to add the -n flag.

In other words, would you mind please posting the output from your laptop of the command:

gateway -n

Also, just to be safe, what do you get from:

cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/hosts
host mymodem

This should provide the definitive answer on where your router is, numerically speaking.

[Omegus]

That does make alot of sense . Here are my results.

gateway -n
gateway: command not found

cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
domain gateway.2wire.net
search gateway.2wire.net
nameserver 192.168.2.1


cat /etc/hosts

192.168.2.12 sandy-ODM # Added by NetworkManager
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 sandy-ODM localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1 sandy-ODM

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


host mymodem
mymodem.gateway.2wire.net has address 192.168.2.1
mymodem.gateway.2wire.net has address 192.168.2.1
Host mymodem.gateway.2wire.net not found: 4(NOTIMP)

[pytheas22]

Aha, according to that output, your gateway looks like it's 192.168.2.1, not 192.168.2.255. So that definitely seems like the core part of the problem.

I'd try editing your network configuration settings in NetworkManager (by right-clicking on the applet). Set it to Manual, and set the gateway to 192.168.2.12, the netmask to 255.255.255.0 and the gateway to 192.168.2.1. Then try turning off or disconnecting your laptop (to free up the 192.168.2.12 IP address) and see if you can get connected on the desktop.

If this doesn't work, are you at least now able to get a ping response from the router if you do:

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.12
ping -c 3 192.168.2.1

[Omegus]

Hey hey guess what...sorry still didnt work. I shut down my laptop after i got your message and tried what you said . When I ping the router it sent the 3 packages but never received anything back. here are the results of the ping.

PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.2.12 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.12 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.2.12 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2004ms
pipe 3

so here I think 1 of 2 things or both need to happen.
1. its a cable thing and I need to switch the ports on the router.
2. I will need to change my ip address on my desktop.
I am just guessing here but I am going off of the info we have been send each other.. Because of you I have learned so much about teminal commands.

[pytheas22]

hmmm, that's very strange. I'd definitely check on the cable and router port.

It might also be worth paying attention to the lights on the ethernet ports on both ends of the connection. When you try to ping the router from the desktop, you should see flashes on both your desktop's ethernet port and on the router's.

If you don't see any flashes on the desktop's end, then that's weird and it could be that there's something strangely wrong with your ethernet card itself.

If you see flashes on the desktop port but not on the router's, it probably means there's a problem with the cable and the packets are not reaching the router.

If you see flashes on both ports but get no ping response from the router, the issue most likely has to do with the configuration of your router. That could mean several different things, the most likely of which is problem (2) noted in your last post: that your desktop needs to use a different IP than 192.168.2.12. If you have your router configured to accept traffic on that IP address only from a certain MAC address, then it would see that your desktop's MAC address is not the same as your laptop's, and would reject the traffic.

The router may also simply not be configured to respond to pings, but that seems unlikely unless you changed the default configuration.

So, to recap, I'd definitely check on the possibility of the port or cable being bad, and if neither of those seems to be the problem, pay attention to the lights on the ethernet ports and see if you can figure out exactly how far the ping packets are getting before they vanish. If it seems like a router configuration issue, let me know which model it is and any information you have about how it's set up, and I'll see if anything stands out.

[Omegus]

I just finished checking both ports and yes they are both blinking. the model number of the router is the 2wire 2701G-G . The software is is a service advisor . when I manually reset the router I need to go into this software to finish th reset. Its bells way of controlling and seeing what you do. the site is http://internet.bell.ca/index.cfm?language=en&method=content.view&content_id=17435 (http://internet.bell.ca/index.cfm?language=en&method=content.view&content_id=17435)

problem is that the software is windows based and wont work in wine. How would go about changing my desktops ip?

[pytheas22]

That seems silly, but I guess it makes sense. God forbid you should be able to exercise control over your own property without checking in first with Bell.

Anyway, I did some googling and unless I am misundersanding something, it seems that you should be able to access the configuration page for this router through a Web browser, without needing Windows. In your case, the URL to put into the address bar should be this

192.168.2.1/xslt?PAGE=C06

That should bring up the page where you can configure network settings. The easiest thing to do would be to check the box to enable dhcp, in which case you should be able to get an IP address just by plugging in your computer and typing the command "dhclient eth0" (of course, you can configure Ubuntu to do that automatically whenever it gets plugged into the router, but for the moment your desktop is not set up that way because of the changes I had you make in NetworkManager).

If you can't get dhcp to work, you'll need to find a page where you can set static IP addresses. The URL above doesn't seem to be the right one, but I'd try experimenting with different values in the URL; for example, see what you get at 192.168.2.1/xslt?PAGE=C07

Let me know if this gets you anywhere.

[Omegus]

how does ths look?
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:62:6d:81:95:de
inet addr:192.168.2.12 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6e62:6dff:fe81:95de/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1511 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:661501 (661.5 KB) TX bytes:111155 (111.1 KB)
Interrupt:45 Base address:0x6000

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:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:960 (960.0 B) TX bytes:960 (960.0 B)


well I thought I would update DHCP so I put in
sudo dhclient eth0
and BAM worked.
Thank you bro you hve helped me so much and I have learned so much from you. you have inspired me to take the Ubuntu Classes.

[pytheas22]

Great to hear it finally worked! We can conclude it was a configuration problem on the router's end all along. At least it finally makes sense now...

You should be able to tell Ubuntu to use dhcp for the connection from now on automatically, without requiring you to run dhclient yourself, by editing your connections in NetworkManager and making sure the IPv4 settings for your eth0 connection are set to "Automatic (DHCP)."

Let me know if you have any problems with this, and otherwise, keep on enjoying Ubuntu. Thanks for all of your patience through trying different things until we were finally able to hit the root of the problem.

[arch0njw]

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make installThen reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1cto insert the driver.

Freaking AWESOME.

This worked for me on an Acer AspireONE D255. "sudo make install" took a very long time (10 minutes+) to complete. But patience paid off.

THANK YOU!!!

[pytheas22]

Freaking AWESOME.

This worked for me on an Acer AspireONE D255. "sudo make install" took a very long time (10 minutes+) to complete. But patience paid off.

THANK YOU!!!

Glad to hear it worked :) And yes, compiling these drivers can take a long time (actually "sudo make install" should not have been the step where you compile them, but if you didn't do "make" first, it may have compiled them before installing), but that's part of the fun.

[avi95]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.
I have the same problem with the same laptop, but these steps are not being able to fix it.
What should I do ?
Plz help...

[avi95]

Also, look at these pics which I get on my system...
https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28422&id=100001565634032&l=9452c06d45

[pytheas22]

avi95: please open a terminal and post the output of these commands:

ifconfig
ifconfig -a
lspci -nn
lshw -C Network
sudo dhclient eth0

I'm not sure what's going on in your case--in your screenshots it looks like your ethernet card is being detected, but NetworkManager is ignoring it for some reason--and the command output should help pinpoint the problem.

[avi95]

Here are the outputs of the commands you gave me :


ifconfig

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)


ifconfig -a

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:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:12064 (12.0 KB) TX bytes:12064 (12.0 KB)


lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)


lshw -C Network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0500000-f0503fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)


sudo dhclient eth0

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device

[dollarside]

Oh my word! I have an Eeepc 1001x with 10.04, Ethernet wasn't working, but after I tried pytheas22's method, reboot, connected the wire, it worked like it does on my desktop.

Thanks so much pytheas22!:popcorn:

[pytheas22]

dollarside: glad it worked for you :) Just keep in mind that you may need to recompile the driver again (repeating the steps that got it working the first time) whenever you install a new kernel via Ubuntu Updates.

avi95: it looks like your card is actually not being recognized, which is strange because in one of the screenshots you posted NetworkManager has an entry for "eth0." Maybe at one time the card was brought up successfully, and now for some reason it no longer is.

In any case, I'm afraid I'll have to ask for more output to figure out why the driver doesn't want to claim the card. Could you please post the output of these commands (the first one may have no output):

sudo modprobe atl1c
dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl1
modinfo atl1c

Also, when you ran the commands to compile the driver, I presume you didn't get any error messages? If you have time, it would not hurt to run those commands again and post all the output, just so I can make sure they're proceeding as expected. According to everything I'm reading, rebuilding the atl1c module using the most recent compat-wireless source code (which is what those commands do for you) should get your hardware (with PCI ID 1969:2060) working in Ubuntu 10.10, so it's strange that it's not doing the trick for you.

[MountainX]

Your ethernet hardware seems to be quite new and doesn't have a driver built into Ubuntu as of yet. However, there's a driver included in the compat-wireless stack that you can use (I have no idea why they included an ethernet driver in compat-wireless, but according to these emails (http://omgili.com/mailinglist/kernel-team/lists/ubuntu/com/43e72e891002020915x572a11fcg57f0b9caf7ed08eamailgm ailcom.html), someone did).

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Then reboot. Hopefully your ethernet will work automatically after reboot; if not, run:

sudo modprobe atl1c

to insert the driver. Let me know how it goes.

We can probably make your wireless work too, if you're interested.

That fixed my Acer AO D255E running Linux Mint 9. (And I did not have to do the last modprobe.) Thanks!

[Saju007]

Hi....
I just installed UBUNTU 10.04 and unable to connect with internet.
My LAN card is not detected so i can't install or update wine from internet. I have wine-1.3.13.tar which is downloaded to my hard disc.
1.How can i install wine from that?
2.Where i can find Driver for " intex IT-584" 10/100 Mbps ETHERNET CARD?

[pytheas22]

Saju007: the .tar.gz file you have for wine is probably source code. Although you could use this file to install wine (by uncompressing the file and then compiling the source code), that's probably not what you want. Instead, wait until you have Internet access and you will then be able to install wine very easily using the Ubuntu Software Center. You can read more about this here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware) if you want the exhaustive details.

As for finding the driver for your ethernet card so that you can connect, please open a terminal from the Applications>Accessories menu, run the following commands and post the output here:

lspci -nn
lshw -C Network
uname -a
ifconfig
ifconfig -a

That will tell me exactly what hardware you have, so that we can find the right driver.

[avi95]

Hey pytheas22,
Did you get to know what is wrong with my network connection ?
Pls respond quickly...

[avi95]

Oh hi,
I completely missed this post of yours...
Here is the output of the original commands :


sudo apt-get update
Err http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://archive.canonical.com maverick Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'
Err http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick/partner Translation-en
Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'
Err http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick/partner Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'
Err http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en
Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'
Err http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/universe/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/dists/maverick/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/dists/maverick/partner/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/dists/maverick/partner/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'archive.canonical.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dl.google.com'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package build-essential



cd compat-wireless*
yash@ubuntu:~/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16$ scripts/driver-select atl1c
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Old build found, going to clean this up first...
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
CLEAN /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16
CLEAN /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/.tmp_versions
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
Restoring Makefiles...
Restored makefile: ./drivers/net/Makefile (and removed backup)
Restored makefile: ./Makefile (and removed backup)
Backing up makefile: Makefile.bk
Backing up makefile: drivers/net/Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk
Backup exists: Makefile.bk


make
./scripts/gen-compat-autoconf.sh config.mk > include/linux/compat_autoconf.h
smake -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build M=/home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16 modules
udmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
LD /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/main.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat-2.6.36.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat-2.6.37.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat-2.6.38.o
LD [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/kfifo.o
LD /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/built-in.o
LD /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.o
o CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_hw.o
CC [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_ethtool.o
LD [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.o
LD /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/built-in.o
m Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 3 modules
a CC /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat.mod.o
LD [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat.ko
CC /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/kfifo.mod.o
ke LD [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/kfifo.ko
CC /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.mod.o
LD [M] /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'


sudo make install

Your old wireless subsystem modules were left intact:

kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/ar9170usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.ko
kernel/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93cx6.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/iwmc3200wifi.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_sdio.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_spi.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_plx.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/usb8xxx.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.ko

Your old ethernet subsystem modules are left intact:

kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.ko
kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko
kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
kernel/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko

Your old bluetooth subsystem modules were left intact:

kernel/drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bcm203x.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bluecard_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/bnep/bnep.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bt3c_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_sdio.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btsdio.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btuart_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/cmtp/cmtp.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/dtl1_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/hidp/hidp.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/l2cap.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/sco.ko

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build M=/home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 3 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build M=/home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16 "INSTALL_MOD_DIR=updates" \
modules_install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
INSTALL /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/compat.ko
INSTALL /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/compat/kfifo.ko
INSTALL /home/yash/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-02-16/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko
DEPMOD 2.6.35-22-generic
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
Updating Ubuntu's initramfs for 2.6.35-22-generic under /boot/ ...
Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
Will now run update-grub to ensure grub will find the new initramfs ...
Generating grub.cfg ...
cat: /boot/grub/video.lst: No such file or directory
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
done
depmod will prefer updates/ over kernel/ -- OK!

Currently detected wireless subsystem modules:

kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/ar9170usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
kernel/drivers/net/b44.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.ko
kernel/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93cx6.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlcore.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/iwmc3200wifi.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko
kernel/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_sdio.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_spi.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_plx.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54spi.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/usb8xxx.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.ko

Currently detected ethernet subsystem modules:

kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.ko
kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko
kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e.ko
updates/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko

Currently detected bluetooth subsystem modules:

kernel/drivers/bluetooth/ath3k.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bcm203x.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bluecard_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/bnep/bnep.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/bt3c_cs.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btmrvl_sdio.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btsdio.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/btuart_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/cmtp/cmtp.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/dtl1_cs.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/hidp/hidp.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.ko
kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/l2cap.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko
kernel/net/bluetooth/sco.ko

Now run:

sudo make unload to unload all: wireless, bluetooth and ethernet modules
sudo make wlunload to unload wireless modules
sudo make btunload to unload bluetooth modules

Run sudo modprobe driver-name to load your desired driver.
If unsure reboot.


yash@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe atl1c
yash@ubuntu:~$

The last command gave absolutely no output.
Now I'd like to mention that out of sheer boredom & irritation I had deleted the "eth0" connection...
That's probably why it's not being detected(sorry)...

And these are the outputs of the commands you just gave :

dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl1
[ 1.137014] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1.137039] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.659361] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1.659375] atl1c: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -5



modinfo atl1c
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/updates/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c.ko
version: 1.0.1.0-NAPI
license: GPL
description: Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver
author: Jie Yang <jie.yang@atheros.com>
srcversion: CAF56BEA4220368C023ED8B
alias: pci:v00001969d00001083sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001073sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00002060sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001062sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001969d00001063sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.35-22-generic SMP mod_unload modversions

The command "sudo modprobe" didn't give anything...
And, seeing as that "eth0" connection is kind of important, I've created another connection with same name.

This IS a real mess.
Now, only you can work your magic...

[pytheas22]

avi95: it looks like you successfully compiled the updated ethernet driver and it now "recognizes" your hardware, but the problem is the line in your dmesg that says:

[ 1.659375] atl1c: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -5

Googling around, it sounds like this may be an issue related to ACPI. So let's try disabling ACPI and see if that solves the problem. First, type this command:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

A file will open. Look for the line that says:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

and add the string acpi=off (inside the quotes), so that the line reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off"

Then save and close the file, and run this command to apply the change:

sudo update-grub

Now reboot and hopefully the ethernet will work. If it still doesn't, please let me know the output of:

lsmod | grep atl
dmesg | grep -e atl -e eth0

If disabling ACPI doesn't solve the problem, it may also help to disconnect the power cord from your machine, remove the battery if it's a laptop and then hold the power button in for about fifteen seconds. This will cut off all electricity to the machine and force all the hardware to default back to its original state, which can sometimes solve strange ACPI-related issues (I don't know if this will help you specifically, but it won't hurt to try if the instructions above don't achieve anything).

[avi95]

Well, my Ethernet didn't start working but, there was an improvement - It is now detecting 2 connections, but is unable to connect to the internet using either of those.

Here are some of the screenshots :
(Ignore the first 5, you've already seen those)


https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28422&id=100001565634032&l=9452c06d45


I'll just give you the output of those commands & try that method that you told me...

[pytheas22]

avi95: that looks better. It looks like your ethernet card is being detected now. But to be sure, please post the output of these (some may have no output):

lsmod | grep atl
dmesg | grep -e atl -e eth0
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

And please also let me know if disconnecting the power to your computer changes anything.

[avi95]

I have some very good news !!!
My wired internet is now working !!!
I installed Ubuntu by burning the contents of the ISO file to a disc.
Then, I created a partition along with Windows 7.
Automatically, my Ethernet began to work...
I'm posting this from Ubuntu only !!!

I'd really like to thank pytheas22 for all the hardwork and effort he put into helping me.
Thanks a lot !!!:D

But, I still need your help to get my wifi working...
It is now detecting my wifi network, I've installed the Broadcom STA Wireless Driver, put in the password for my connection.
The network icon shows those bars flashing as a sign of connecting but, after a few minutes of trying to connect it gives a message saying "Wireless not connected".

Although this seems to be quite an ordinary problem, I'd really appreciate your help.
Thanks anyway :D

[pytheas22]

avi95: glad to hear you got the ethernet working. That's good news. I'm not sure why it works for you now, but perhaps the bug that causes your hardware not to be recognized in Ubuntu 10.10 has been fixed and you got the update in the ISO of Ubuntu that you downloaded recently.

As for the wireless, that's strange that it won't connect. Normally I'd suggest trying a different driver, but the STA driver that you already installed is the only one that will support your hardware (with PCI ID 14e4:4727). (There's ndiswrapper, but that's a last-ditch solution.) Are you able to connect if you change the settings on your router? For example, you could try changing the channel or the encryption scheme (e.g., switch from WPA1 to WPA2, or vice-versa).

If you still can't get the wireless to connect, it would be useful to see the output of:

grep -ie wl -ie eth1 /var/log/syslog
sudo iwlist scan
iwconfig

[fliksr]

I installed 10.04 LTS a few days ago and was having the occasional freezing issue (like many it seems). I found a workaround until I had time to actually fix it (video driver?) but now I have a more annoying problem. It all of a sudden does not detect the wired connection.

I had to go back to the Vista partition just to post here!

I would very much appreciate some help and guidance!

[avi95]

Okay, I tried everything you said, but it didn't work.
Those bars in the wireless network connection icon flash & blink for a while & then a message is displayed saying "Wireless not connected"...

So, here are the outputs of the commands you asked for :


grep -ie wl -ie eth1 /var/log/syslog

Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 16.318649] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 16.322586] wl 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 16.322597] wl 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 16.456832] eth1: Broadcom BCM4727 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/eth1, iface: eth1)
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/eth1, iface: eth1): no ifupdown configuration found.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <error> [1298696248.496072] [nm-device-wifi.c:3095] real_update_permanent_hw_address(): (eth1): unable to read permanent MAC address (error 0)
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'wl' ifindex: 3)
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): now managed
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): bringing up device.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): preparing device.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv6 for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Registering new address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.*.
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Interface eth1.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:27:37 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:27:38 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Feb 26 10:27:39 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:27:39 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv6 for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:27:39 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Registering new address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.*.
Feb 26 10:27:48 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 38.224525] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) starting connection 'Auto SiddSharma'
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 3 -> 4 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): access point 'Auto SiddSharma' has security, but secrets are required.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 5 -> 6 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 6 -> 4 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): connection 'Auto SiddSharma' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associated
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:27:52 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:27:55 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associated
Feb 26 10:27:55 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Feb 26 10:27:55 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:27:55 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:27:59 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associated
Feb 26 10:27:59 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Feb 26 10:27:59 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:27:59 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:28:07 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <warn> (eth1): link timed out.
Feb 26 10:28:09 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:28:09 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:28:19 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:19 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Interface eth1.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> associating
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:20 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Feb 26 10:28:21 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:21 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:21 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Feb 26 10:28:23 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:28:23 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv6 for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:28:23 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Registering new address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.*.
Feb 26 10:28:25 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associating -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:28:25 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:28:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associated
Feb 26 10:28:28 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Feb 26 10:28:29 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.1.
Feb 26 10:28:29 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:28:29 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.1 on eth1.IPv4.
Feb 26 10:28:30 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> associating
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associating -> associated
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> 4-way handshake
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: 4-way handshake -> group handshake
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: group handshake -> completed
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'SiddSharma'.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 5 -> 7 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Beginning DHCPv4 transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Beginning IP6 addrconf.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Interface eth1.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): DHCPv4 state changed nbi -> preinit
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/70:f1:a1:6e:e8:e4
Feb 26 10:28:31 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Feb 26 10:28:32 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv6 with address fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4.
Feb 26 10:28:32 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv6 for mDNS.
Feb 26 10:28:32 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Registering new address record for fe80::72f1:a1ff:fe6e:e8e4 on eth1.*.
Feb 26 10:28:33 BaddyMaster dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.3 on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Feb 26 10:28:33 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): DHCPv4 state changed preinit -> bound
Feb 26 10:28:33 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:28:33 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) started...
Feb 26 10:28:33 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) complete.
Feb 26 10:28:41 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: completed -> disconnected
Feb 26 10:28:41 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Feb 26 10:28:41 BaddyMaster kernel: [ 91.158454] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) scheduled...
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) started...
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 7 -> 9 (reason 5)
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed for access point (SiddSharma)
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed.
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) complete.
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 0).
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster NetworkManager[970]: <info> (eth1): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 1949
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.1.1 on eth1.
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.1.
Feb 26 10:28:51 BaddyMaster avahi-daemon[968]: Interface eth1.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.




sudo iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Failed to read scan data : Invalid argument




iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:164
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0




Hope this helps....

[fliksr]

Hopefully this is useful:

ifconfig
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:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10127 (10.1 KB) TX bytes:10127 (10.1 KB)

ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:5a:7d:c5
BROADCAST 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:21

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:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10127 (10.1 KB) TX bytes:10127 (10.1 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:92:9b:12:ce
BROADCAST 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)

lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge [1002:5950] (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38]
00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
00:13.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
00:13.4 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
00:13.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
08:01.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller [1180:0843] (rev 01)

lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:c0200000-c0203fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:5a:7d:c5
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 latency=64 multicast=yes
resources: irq:21 memory:c0300000-c0301fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:92:9b:12:ce
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

sudo dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:5a:7d:c5
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:5a:7d:c5
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPOFFER of 76.23.128.214 from 73.157.232.1
DHCPREQUEST of 76.23.128.214 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 76.23.128.214 from 73.157.232.1
bound to 76.23.128.214 -- renewal in 104418 seconds.

Disabled?? WTF?!

[pytheas22]

fliksr: you were able to get a connection manually using dhclient, so it is probably not a problem with your driver. Most likely the issue is that NetworkManager is not starting automatically for some reason. Do you get connected if you type these commands:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager start

If that works I can tell you how to make those commands run automatically whenever you boot your computer.

avi95: I'm not sure, but it looks for your syslog like your machine is trying to use IPv6, which I suspect might be the problem. Is your router configured to use IPv6? Do you have your connection configured to use IPv6 in NetworkManager?

In most cases IPv6 should not be necessary, so you should probably disable it. Let me know if you're able to connect then.

[fliksr]

No such luck. All I get is this message:

Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8 )
utility, e.g. service network-manager start

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the start(8 ) utility, e.g. start network-manager

[avi95]

Dude, you ROCK !!!!
The minute I disabled IPv6, my wireless got connected !!!

Believe me,if there was a Nobel Prize for helping others, I would have given it to you...
It's amazing.
Today, you have gained a new fan :D

[pytheas22]

avi95: glad it worked and you're finally all set :) Just for the sake of anyone else who reads this thread, was it on your router that you had to disable IPv6, or in NetworkManager in Ubuntu?

fliksr: strange. The only other possibility that stands out to me as potentially being the cause of your problem is that you simply have the interface disabled in NetworkManager for some reason, or not set to connect automatically. If you right-click on the NetworkManager applet (which by default is in the upper-right corner of your screen) and select "Edit Connections," you should see an entry called "Auto eth0" under the "Wired" tab. And if you click the "Edit" button for that connection, you should see that the interface is configured to connect automatically, is available to all users and (under the "IPv6 Settings" tab) is set to use "Automatic (DHCP)" as its connection method. These should all be the default settings, but if they're not, that could be the problem.

It could also be helpful to check your syslog output for any bits about the ethernet interface. What is the output of:

grep -i -e eth0 -e b44 /var/log/syslog

By the way, the bit in your "lshw -C Network" output about the interface being "DISABLED" usually just means that it's "down"--i.e., not activated--but the "sudo ifconfig eth0 up" command should put it "up." After you run that command, does lshw still say the interface is DISABLED?

If none of the above helps and we can't figure out the root cause of your issue, a second-best solution would be just to write a script that use dhclient to get you an IP address, and would run automatically each time you boot your computer. That's easy to set up, but let's see if we can figure out the real problem first.

[avi95]

Yeah, I'm all set now :D

I disabled IPv6 in the Network Manager Applet in Ubuntu.
It worked beautifully :)

[Anil hegde]

Hi i hav recently bought Dell inspiron N4010 and i am unable to detect wired connection in it.....

The below are few outputs i am getting

cat /etc/network/interfaces
Output :
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Output :
# ...some comments...
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
Output :
<No output>

After seein previous posts i tried installin
compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2

But then i got the following error
anil@anil-laptop:~/Desktop/compat-wireless-2011-03-10$ sh scripts/driver-select atl1c
scripts/driver-select: 47: function: not found
-e Usage: scripts/driver-select [ <driver-name> | <driver-group-name> | restore ]
-e Supported 802.11 drivers:
-e ath5k
-e ath9k
-e ath9k_htc
-e carl9170
-e b43
-e zd1211rw
-e rt2x00
-e wl1251
-e wl12xx
-e ath6kl
-e brcm80211
-e
Supported group drivers:
-e atheros < ath5k ath9k carl9170 zd1211rw >
-e ath < ath5k ath9k carl9170 >
-e iwlagn < iwlagn >
-e rtl818x < rtl8180 rtl8187 >
-e rtlwifi < rtl8192ce >
-e wl12xx < wl1251 wl12xx (SPI and SDIO)>
-e
Supported group drivers: Bluetooth & Ethernet:
-e atlxx < atl1 atl2 atl1e atl1c >
-e bt < Linux bluetooth drivers >
-e Restoring compat-wireless:
-e restore: you can use this option to restore compat-wireless to the original state
scripts/driver-select: 71: Syntax error: "}" unexpected


Any help is appreciated

[pytheas22]

Anil hegde: thanks for the output you posted, but I'm afraid it doesn't indicate which hardware you have. I'll need to know that before I can figure out what's probably going wrong for you. Please post the output of these commands when you are able:

lspci -nn
lshw -C Network
uname -a

[Anil hegde]

Tis is the output of cmds u specified

anil@anil-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 18)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:3b4c] (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b0b] (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b2f] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 06)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 1000 Series [8086:0083]
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet [1969:2060] (rev c1)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 05)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 05)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 05)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 05)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 05)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 05)
anil@anil-laptop:~$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: WiFi Link 1000 Series
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 8c:a9:82:17:8c:04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=10.158.240.55 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:33 memory:f0500000-f0501fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
anil@anil-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux anil-laptop 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

[pytheas22]

Anil hegde: thanks for the output. Your ethernet hardware should be supported by the compat-wireless code, so compiling that should solve your problem. When you tried to compile it before and ran into an error, it was probably because you tried calling one of the scripts with "sh" instead of "bash." Please try compiling compat-wireless using the exact commands specified in post #6 of this thread, and it should work for you (you may need to reboot for the new driver to take effect). If not, please post all the output you get, along with:

dmesg | grep -e atl1c
ifconfig
lshw -C Network

[Anil hegde]

Sir i tried it using bash but same error


tis is the o/p of other cmds


anil@anil-laptop:~/Desktop$ dmesg | grep -e atl1c
anil@anil-laptop:~/Desktop$ ifconfig
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:902 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:902 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:69740 (69.7 KB) TX bytes:69740 (69.7 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8c:a9:82:17:8c:04
inet addr:172.16.41.53 Bcast:172.16.47.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::8ea9:82ff:fe17:8c04/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3648877 (3.6 MB) TX bytes:40703 (40.7 KB)

anil@anil-laptop:~/Desktop$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: WiFi Link 1000 Series
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 8c:a9:82:17:8c:04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=172.16.41.53 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:32 memory:f0500000-f0501fff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)

[pytheas22]

hmmm, I just ran those commands using the latest version of compat-wireless and they worked without an issue. Could you post the exact commands you're entering when you try to compile compat-wireless, along with the exact output you get?

In case it wasn't clear, I think the reason you're getting an error when try to run the driver-select script is because you were running it with the command:

sh scripts/driver-select atl1c

It should work if you call it with just

scripts/driver-select atl1c

[Anil hegde]

when i run without sh i.e scrits/driver-select i get the following error


must run scripts/driver-select from the compat-wireless top level directory

???????????? wat to do next?:confused:

[Anil hegde]

@pytheas22 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=358340) Problem solved..... Thanks for all your support....Truly grateful to you sir.

Wat i did was to redownload the compat-wireless file and then followed the same commands in thread #6 and to my surprise it worked..

Thanks a lot:lolflag:

Cheers:popcorn:

[pytheas22]

Anil hegde: good to hear. Maybe you got a bad copy of the compat-wireless code the first time you downloaded it, for some reason. In any case, enjoy Ubuntu :)

[knighteyres]

I'm having a problem with my wired ethernet. wireless works great, but I would still like to have wired in case I need it
I ran these commands. I am using ubuntu10.4 Thanks

cat /etc/network/interfaces
cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
ifconfig -a




cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false


dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcm
[ 13.167290] eth0: Broadcom BCM4727 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 5.60.48.36
[ 23.896534] eth0: no IPv6 routers present


ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ec:55:f9:24:5c:08
inet addr:192.168.120.36 Bcast:192.168.120.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ee55:f9ff:fe24:5c08/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4031 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1744
TX packets:3747 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3381153 (3.3 MB) TX bytes:606196 (606.1 KB)
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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

[arch0njw]

knighteyres,

run this and post the output: lspci

[knighteyres]

jody@jody-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4727 (rev 01)

[arch0njw]

knighteyres,

You're having exactly the same problem I had with exactly the same hardware. I blogged about my solution here:

http://arch0njw.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/acer-aspireone-d255-wireless-network-and-kubuntu/

Those steps worked for me. Let me know if that helps.

[pytheas22]

arch0njw: thanks for the tip. Hopefully that will solve it. If not, knighteyres, please post back and we can try some other things.

[Brouham]

I had problems with the Atheros AR8151 ethernet port on my new motherboard. I couldn't find a clean, working copy of the driver pack talked about in this forum. However, it doesn't matter because I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 beta and the correct driver is embedded in that release and the Atheros ethernet port worked automatically after upgrading. I know that the final release is next week but I couldn't wait and it is running great as a beta release.

[arch0njw]

Brouham,

Thanks for the update on that. It's good to know there are updated drivers to look forward to.

[vanyat77]

Hi, Thanks to you I too have now an working wired ethernet. What I already had expected is that after an update it doesn work anymore. I`ll need to install the driver again. Nevertheless with the working wired connection I couldn't get the wireless to work even after these commands:
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
echo wl | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

[vanyat77]

@pytheas22
Hi, I've got my wired end wireless connection working thanks to you. Keep up the good work!

[smith.mincha]

So i finally get everything working on my toshiba satellite c650d-007! Only one thing left, the Ethernet, which is a Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E.

When i run theses commands (given on the first page of this thread):

tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

All seems to have gone well, it installs fine, and when i reboot i can even use the Ethernet for a while!

Except after about 1-2 mins everything freezes and stays frozen, I reboot again and i get the same issue.

Luckily i made a backup of my system in a .tar so i start-up in command line mode and reset my system. Everything works again (save the Ethernet).

I have done this many times and always my system freezes after reboot from installing the Ethernet drivers.

Any ideas??? I would love to have completely everything working on my laptop.:mad:

[pytheas22]

smith.mincha: first of all, which version of Ubuntu are you using? In Ubuntu 11.04 and later, the ethernet driver for the device dealt with earlier in this thread is already built-in, so the wired connection should "just work" (assuming your device is indeed the same as that of others in this thread). If you are on Ubuntu 11.04 or later, I wonder if your dmesg provides any clues on why it's not working out-of-the-box. What output do you get from:

lspci -nn
dmesg | grep -e eth -e atl

Otherwise, if you do need to compile the driver from source, my first suggestion would be to try using an older version of the compat-wireless code. It's possible that the code you compiled from happened to be a bad snapshot, where there was some bug present that causes your system to freeze after a few minutes. At http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ you can download snapshots from particular dates. (If you just download the file "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" it will give you the most recent snapshot.) I'd try an older one to see if that makes a difference.

[mbpram]

Hi

I am using ubuntu 10.04 LTS OS. Re-installed it recently coz i had to clean up my harddisk. Thought of reinstalling the whole OS n did it... But my wired and wireless network are not working. I tried the steps given in the first page of this thread but with no success. I think my ethernet card is not getting detected because the mac address shows 00:00:00:00:00:00
I am posting the output of the commands....

1. ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST 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:30 Base address:0x2000

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2a:a2:7c:82:e7:2e
BROADCAST 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
BROADCAST 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)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:00:a2:5d:e9
BROADCAST 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)


2. dmesg | grep -e eth0 -e bcn

[ 0.990441] eth0: RTL8102e at 0xf8442000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 14a00000 IRQ 30


3. cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


4. cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf

# This file is installed into /etc/NetworkManager, and is loaded by
# NetworkManager by default. To override, specify: '--config file'
# during NM startup. This can be done by appending to DAEMON_OPTS in
# the file:
#
# /etc/default/NetworkManager
#

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

5. ifup eth0

Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

6. lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)


Please help me solve this problem....

[pytheas22]

mbpram: please post the output of:

lspci -nn

The "-nn" part is important. You didn't include it when you ran the command before.

Also, with your Ubuntu CD inserted in the drive, run the Hardware Drivers program (you can find it in the menu, or launch it from a terminal by typing "sudo jocket-gtk") and follow the instructions. You may be able to get the driver for your wireless card installed that way (but to know for sure how to make your wireless work, I need to see your "lspci -nn" output).

[mbpram]

Hi
I tried the sudo jockey-gtk command but it asks for internet to activate the sta n another driver. I am posting the result of lspci -nn command

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2944] (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem [8086:2932] (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

Waiting for the reply as well as solution...!!!
Thank u

[jamesisin]

To download, compile and install the driver, first go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6 and download the file named "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" (you can't download it in the terminal because of anti-hotlinking). Save it to your desktop. Then run these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
cd ~/Desktop
tar -xjvf compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
cd compat-wireless*
scripts/driver-select atl1c
make
sudo make install

Those first two commands won't work without a network connection. Everything else seems to do the job. Please confirm there is no reason to bother with those first two commands.

[andriansah]

Those first two commands won't work without a network connection. Everything else seems to do the job. Please confirm there is no reason to bother with those first two commands.


It's okay, just skip the first 2 line and start on ./scripts/driver-select


Now is how can I make the wireless up

[pytheas22]

jamesisin: you only need the first two commands if you don't have a compiler and other build dependencies installed. Apparently you already had a compiler installed on your system, since the rest of the commands worked without issue. So you're all set.

mbpram: what output do you get from these commands (run them in this order, with your ethernet cable plugged into your router):

dmesg | grep -ie realtek -ie rtl -ie r8 -re 8136
lshw -C Network
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:1a:2b:56:78:09
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo dhclient eth0

Some commands may have no output.

[jamesisin]

That that's all well and good, but keep in mind that anyone attempting to get this nic working won't have Internet access either. You may want to put a note on the original post where you added these instructions for less tech-savy users.

[pytheas22]

That that's all well and good, but keep in mind that anyone attempting to get this nic working won't have Internet access either. You may want to put a note on the original post where you added these instructions for less tech-savy users.

Yes, I agree that would be helpful--although I originally wrote those instructions for one user and had no idea so many others were going to latch onto this thread (though I'm glad it's proved to be helpful). It was never supposed to be a tutorial or how-to for the masses. So please don't be too harsh with the criticism; I'm doing the best I can here :)

[jamesisin]

Hahaha. You're just gonna have to learn how to live with your sudden fame and success.

[mbpram]

Hi sorry for late reply.... Had my term exams.
I did run the commands in the given order with my ethernet cable plugged... I m puttin the o/p

1.dmesg | grep -ie realtek -ie rtl -ie r8 -re 8136

[ 1.008869] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[ 1.008887] r8169 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1.008927] r8169 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.008995] r8169 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 1.009666] eth0: RTL8102e at 0xf8572000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 14a00000 IRQ 31

2.lshw -C Network

*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:db600000-db603fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:31 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:d1410000-d1410fff(prefetchable) memory:d1400000-d140ffff(prefetchable) memory:d1420000-d142ffff(prefetchable)
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:21:00:a2:5d:e9
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 3
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes

3.sudo ifconfig eth0 down
4.sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:1a:2b:56:78:09
5.sudo ifconfig eth0 up
After executing these commands i was able to connect with the internet using the wired network...:p. Still my wireless does not work. So i installed the wireless drivers, then the wireless network got detected but wen tried to connect it showed connecting for may be 20 min or so n finally did not connect. Also wen i rebooted, the wired network was again down. If i execute those three commands again i was able to get the wired network.

6.sudo dhclient eth0

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1a:2b:56:78:09
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1a:2b:56:78:09
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.7 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.7 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.7 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.7 -- renewal in 19390 seconds.

[pytheas22]

mbpram: those commands had you set a MAC address manually for the ethernet. It seems that it works once you do this. You could write a boot script to set the MAC address automatically when your computer boots, so that it should connect on its own. To write the appropriate boot script, type these commands:

sudo -s
cd /etc/init.d
echo -e "ifconfig eth0 down\nifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:1a:2b:56:78:09\nifconfig eth0 up" > ethernet-fix.sh
chmod +x ethernet-fix.sh
update-rc.d ethernet-fix defaults

After this the ethernet should just work whenever you boot your computer. As for the wireless, please try connecting, then post the output of:

lshw -C Network
dmesg | grep -e wl
sudo iwlist scan

[mbpram]

HI i got my wired networking... Thank u very much... I executed the three commands but first two commands(ie lshw -C Networks n dmesg | grep -e w1) did not yield any result... Simply nothing... I tried aft disconnectin my wired network but stil no output... I m putting up the result for third command
3. sudo iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:15:E9:00:00:02
ESSID:"Saismaran"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
Quality:4/5 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Preauthentication Supported
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s

vboxnet0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Saismaran is my wireless network SSID and user name. I use a WAP and WAP2 key for security... I dont know why i didnt get o/p for first two commands...:(

[pytheas22]

mbpram: when you type "lshw -C Network" you need to wait a second and it should show output. It should definitely show you something so please give it another try.

As for the other command, it should be "dmesg | grep -e wl" with a lowercase L as the last character, not the number 1. Please try that again as well.

[mbpram]

Hi sorry... I did not wait previously... The o/p is
1.lshw -C Network


*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:21:00:a2:5d:e9
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:16 memory:db600000-db603fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1a:2b:56:78:09
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.7 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:30 ioport:6000(size=256) memory:d1410000-d1410fff(prefetchable) memory:d1400000-d140ffff(prefetchable) memory:d1420000-d142ffff(prefetchable)
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes


2.mesg | grep -e wl


[ 16.638361] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 16.650107] wl 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 16.650120] wl 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64


3.sudo iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:15:E9:00:00:02
ESSID:"Saismaran"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
Quality:4/5 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Preauthentication Supported
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Encryption keyn
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s

[pytheas22]

mbpram: please give the instructions in this blog post (http://polach.cc/howto-fix-broadcom-wifi-adapter-wpa-network-access-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx) a try. I think they apply to your situation.

[mbpram]

Hi I checked the link you gave and then tried out both the solutions given there. But the problem still exists. The wireless network gets detected n everything is fine. When i try to connect it takes forever to connect n ultimately I wont be able to connect... Please help me out...!!

[pytheas22]

mbpram: sorry not to respond sooner. I am in the middle of traveling.

You might have better luck connecting if you use wicd instead of NetworkManager. You can find wicd in the Ubuntu Software Center. Please give that a try.

[arshiya]

i do the same steps above i got the same problem but when i run sudo modprobe atl1c the output is like this FATAL : atl1c module not found .....anyone knows how to fix this ......please help

[arshiya]

guys i got the same problem and i have done all the steps above when i run this command sudo modprobe atl1c the output is like this FATAL: atl1c module not found .....anyone knows how to fix this please help me

[pytheas22]

arshiya: please post all the commands you are trying to run to solve the problem, along with the output. We will need that information to know why the particular command you mentioned produces a fatal error.

[ianlone81]

I have problems also similar with that. heres the info;

1. Machine Name brand and model :Laptop Acer Aspire 4743Z Windows7 64-bit Home Basic Edition


Im using backtrack5 in my VMware Player version 3.1.3 build-324285

2. Wireless Brand,Model & wireless chipset :
Atheros ARB5B97 wireless network adapter

Im using Realtek RTL8191su adapter in which it cannot detect wireless in the VMware player.

Code I entered:
$lsusb - Bus: 001
Device :002
ID Obda: 8172u

3. Check interface –
$iwconfig wlan1
unassociated nickname : “rtl_wifi”
Mode: auto Access point: not associated sensitivity:0/0
Retry: off RTS thr: off fragment thr: off
Encryption key: of
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

$if wconfig
Eth0 link encap: Ethernet
Int addr: I see ip add here
Up broadcast running multicast
Some packets & zero’s down & errors. Etc.

L0 link encap: local loopback
Net addr: Ip add again
Up loopback running


4. $Lshw –C network
*network disabled
Description: wireless interface
Physical ID:2
Bus info: usb@1:1
Logical name: wlan1
Configuration:broadcast:yes,driver:r8172u,multicas t:yes,wireless:unassociated
5. Scan for network;
$iwlist scan
Lo : interface doesn’t support scanning
Eth0:interface doesn’t support scanning
Wlan1: no scan result

6. Ubunto version.
Ubunto 10.04.2 LTS


7. Kernel architecture
2.6.38.i686

Hope you can help me solve this problem.Please state any more code and result to be posted if any.

[pytheas22]

ianlone81: I'm a little confused as to what exactly you're trying to do. Do you have your wireless card working correctly on your Ubuntu 10.04 system, but it is not being detected inside the backtrack5 system that you're running inside a virtual machine hosted on Ubuntu 10.04? If that's the case, it's probably an issue with the "passthrough" feature of VMware (I'm not even sure whether VMware Player supports this), which I don't know much about. You'd be better off starting a thread in the virtualization section of this forum.

If your wireless card isn't working on Ubuntu 10.04, then that's a different problem, but in that case I'm not sure what VMware has to do with it.

Please clarify a bit and I'd be happy to help if I can.

[ianlone81]

ok sorry. when i start open vmware and start bt5, in the virtual machine and removable device section i can see in the lower right that the wireless adpater was connected so i guess it was detected. what im trying to do is to detect nearby wireless signal. here's the thread i started. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11535895#post11535895

[andreazana]

Hello, I'm begging for some help here. I've got an HP Pavilion dv4, intel i5. I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 and at first I couldn't make a connection, not wired nor wireless. Following the instructions of the first page of this thread, I managed to achieve a wired connection, but after reading almost every post I still can't connect wiressly. I have an Atheros card. I've already done apt-get update and tried with every winXP 32-bits driver listed here: http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-drivers.php and ndiswrapper. Here is some info to save time:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW 78:e3:b5:60:ee:66
Direc. inet:192.168.1.7 Difus.:192.168.1.255 Másc:255.255.255.0
Dirección inet6: fe80::7ae3:b5ff:fe60:ee66/64 Alcance:Enlace
ACTIVO DIFUSIÓN FUNCIONANDO MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:91750 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:70552 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:1000
Bytes RX:129819312 (129.8 MB) TX bytes:6754352 (6.7 MB)
Interrupción:33

lo Link encap:Bucle local
Direc. inet:127.0.0.1 Másc:255.0.0.0
Dirección inet6: ::1/128 Alcance:Anfitrión
ACTIVO BUCLE FUNCIONANDO MTU:16436 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:22088 (22.0 KB) TX bytes:22088 (22.0 KB)


ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW 78:e3:b5:60:ee:66
Direc. inet:192.168.1.7 Difus.:192.168.1.255 Másc:255.255.255.0
Dirección inet6: fe80::7ae3:b5ff:fe60:ee66/64 Alcance:Enlace
ACTIVO DIFUSIÓN FUNCIONANDO MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:91754 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:70557 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:1000
Bytes RX:129819623 (129.8 MB) TX bytes:6754703 (6.7 MB)
Interrupción:33

lo Link encap:Bucle local
Direc. inet:127.0.0.1 Másc:255.0.0.0
Dirección inet6: ::1/128 Alcance:Anfitrión
ACTIVO BUCLE FUNCIONANDO MTU:16436 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:22088 (22.0 KB) TX bytes:22088 (22.0 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW 96:f8:ef:ea:65:83
DIFUSIÓN MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:0 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:0 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


lshw -C network

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW 78:e3:b5:60:ee:66
Direc. inet:192.168.1.7 Difus.:192.168.1.255 Másc:255.255.255.0
Dirección inet6: fe80::7ae3:b5ff:fe60:ee66/64 Alcance:Enlace
ACTIVO DIFUSIÓN FUNCIONANDO MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:91754 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:70557 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:1000
Bytes RX:129819623 (129.8 MB) TX bytes:6754703 (6.7 MB)
Interrupción:33

lo Link encap:Bucle local
Direc. inet:127.0.0.1 Másc:255.0.0.0
Dirección inet6: ::1/128 Alcance:Anfitrión
ACTIVO BUCLE FUNCIONANDO MTU:16436 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:292 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:22088 (22.0 KB) TX bytes:22088 (22.0 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW 96:f8:ef:ea:65:83
DIFUSIÓN MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:0 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:0 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

dmesg | grep eth

[ 17.725411] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 19.219637] atl1c 0000:08:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 19.219743] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 252.267003] atl1c 0000:08:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Down
[ 366.408595] atl1c 0000:08:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 371.852146] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (atl1c): transmit queue 0 timed out
[ 371.877185] atl1c 0000:08:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>


lspci -nn

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0104] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0116] (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1c14] (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:1c18] (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26] (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1c49] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller [8086:1c22] (rev 05)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:008b] (rev 34)
02:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller [197b:2392] (rev 30)
02:00.2 SD Host controller [0805]: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller [197b:2391] (rev 30)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Device [1969:1083] (rev c0)

Sorry if the post is long, but I'm desperate and I would really appreciate some help.

Thanks already!

[pytheas22]

andreazana: it looks like you actually have an Intel wireless card, with PCI ID 8086:008b. Only your ethernet card is Atheros.

Your wireless device should be supported by the iwlagn driver, which is built into Ubuntu, so I'm not sure why it's not working. I'm afraid I have to ask for more output to know what could be wrong. Please post the results of:

dmesg | grep -ie iwl -ie wlan
lshw -C Network
sudo iwlist scan
uname -a

[andreazana]

pytheas22:

Hello and thank you very much for answering. Here are the results:

dmesg | grep -ie iwl -ie wlan

(no output)

lshw -C Network

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 34
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:c2500000-c2501fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Atheros Communications
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 78:e3:b5:60:ee:66
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI ip=192.168.1.7 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:33 memory:c1400000-c143ffff ioport:2000(size=128)

sudo iwlist scan

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.


uname -a

Linux flaca 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux


Only one more thing. Today some one gave me a CD with a Debian ISO (
debian-live-6.0.3-i386-gnome-desktop.iso (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.3-i386-gnome-desktop.iso)). Do you think that installing
Debian could solve my problem? It's just that I already have some school
projects to develop and I'm kind of desperate... Thanks again and have a wonderful evening!

[pytheas22]

andreazana: it looks like you're using a somewhat old kernel, version 2.6.32. I'm not positive but that version might not have the iwlagn driver that you need built-in. You could compile and install it yourself, but an easier solution might be just to try installing a more up-to-date release of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 11.10 should definitely have the driver you need.

If you do want to compile the driver from source, you can get the code from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download and follow the instructions there for building it. If you need more specific help than what's there I can give it.

As for Debian, I'm not sure whether it will work any better. It depends on whether or not it has the iwlagn driver built-in and I'm not sure. (It's been a while since I've used Debian myself.)

Also, just in case it's simply a problem with the iwlagn driver not loading, try typing:

sudo modprobe iwlagn

and then see whether the command "dmesg | grep -ie iwl -ie wlan" produces any output. If so, please post the output here. I doubt this is the issue, though -- most likely the iwlagn driver simply doesn't exist on your system (or the version of iwlagn that you have is too old to support your hardware).

If you are really desperate to get Linux running so you can do work, you could also always just install it inside a virtual machine on Windows using VirtualBox or VMware. It won't be the same as a bare-metal installation but it would be the quick-and-easy route.

[flightrisk]

Greetings. This is an excellent forum and I apologize if I'm going about this the wrong way.....I'm not real familiar with the ins and outs here. I have the same problem as above in that I cannot get wired ethernet going on a fresh install of Lucid on an Acer Aspire One with Atheros 8152 controller. I can't get past the whole "build-essential" thing, though. I keep getting a "please insert the disk labeled: Ubuntu 10.04....". I installed the OS via iso image on a USB which I still have available and am apparently not smart enough to figure out how to use.

I have managed to install fakeroot, patch, xz-utils, and dpkg-dev.
As I understand it I still need libstdc++6-4.4-dev, g++, g++-4.4, and build-essential.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and keep up the good work.

[pytheas22]

flightrisk: first of all, on Lucid I don't think you should have to compile the driver from source. It should be built in. It would be good to see the output of these commands on your system to get a better idea of what might be wrong:

lspci -nn
sudo modprobe atl1c
dmesg | grep -e eth -e ath
ifconfig

If you don't want to compile the driver, though, you should be able to solve the issue with being asked for the CD by opening the Ubuntu Software Center, going to Edit>Software Sources, unchecking any and all boxes related to CDs and DVDs, then reloading the software sources list. (The sources list should be reloaded automatically but in case it is not you can do it manually by typing "sudo apt-get update")

[flightrisk]

PYTHEAS22....you're a diamond. You actually solved most of this problem about 25 pages and a year ago if I'd have been smart enough to read all the words correctly. I went back and went through it for about the 10th time and finally got the wired connection to work. I was superimposing some words over each other and wasn't getting the right outcome.

It's embarrassing but I'm not real sure how to post the results of command line outputs here like everyone has done so I'm gonna search on that for a bit and I'll attempt to post those for you real soon.

Again, thanks for the help.

[pytheas22]

PYTHEAS22....you're a diamond. You actually solved most of this problem about 25 pages and a year ago if I'd have been smart enough to read all the words correctly. I went back and went through it for about the 10th time and finally got the wired connection to work. I was superimposing some words over each other and wasn't getting the right outcome.

It's embarrassing but I'm not real sure how to post the results of command line outputs here like everyone has done so I'm gonna search on that for a bit and I'll attempt to post those for you real soon.

Again, thanks for the help.

Glad it helped. This thread has become so large I no longer remember what it contains :)

You can copy output from the terminal by highlighting it with your mouse cursor, right-clicking and selecting "Copy." Then just paste into your Web browser as normal to get it here.

Alternatively, just highlight the text and (with the text still highlighted) switch to the Web browser window and press your mouse's middle button (the scroll wheel). That's an abbreviated way of copying and pasting in Linux.

[flightrisk]

OK, I'm gonna give this a shot
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1510]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:9807]
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:1314]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a0]
00:15.2 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a2]
00:15.3 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:43a3]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1700] (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1701]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1702]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1703]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1704]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1718]
00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1716]
00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device [1022:1719]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet [1969:2062] (rev c1)
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:0032] (rev 01)
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe atl1c
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -e -wl -e ath
[ 1.031642] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 1.031647] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$
klaw@klaw-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr dc:0e:a1:4f:db:6d
inet addr:192.168.1.146 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::de0e:a1ff:fe4f:db6d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2802861 (2.8 MB) TX bytes:240602 (240.6 KB)
Interrupt:27

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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:480 (480.0 B) TX bytes:480 (480.0 B)

I may have dislocated this whole thing. Let me know if you can make heads and tails of this.

[pytheas22]

Your ethernet card seems to be up and working without a problem. You even have an IP address on it. So everything looks alright there.

For the wireless, it should work using the ath9k driver, which is built into more recent versions of Ubuntu but may not exist in Ubuntu 10.04 (I don't remember whether it was there). To solve this problem you have two options: either upgrade to a more recent version of Ubuntu, or compile the ath9k driver manually from source. For specific instructions on the latter option, see post 63 of this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1857808&page=7).