Newbie needs help with wifi

[czarjosh]

I just picked up a Dell Vostro 1000. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it the other day. It has an AMD 64 Athlon X2 processor. Everything went fine on the install and when I first started using the machine it found my wireless network. After a restart I get a "Wireless is disabled" message under my network settings area.

I found this thread:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

and started to work through it.

WHen I enter:

lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4


I get:

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)

When I enter:

sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb wl

I get:

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module ssb is in use.


I am not sure what I did wrong. I tried some other commands I found on older threads and I do not recall what they were, so I am lost and still do not have any wifi.

[Iowan]

Right-click on the Network Manager icon and verify that Networking and Wireless are still enabled. Here are a few threads that might be useful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1564615
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1484913
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1505217
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1537792

[czarjosh]

Right-click on the Network Manager icon and verify that Networking and Wireless are still enabled. Here are a few threads that might be useful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1564615
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1484913
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1505217
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1537792

Enable NEtworking is checked. Enable Wireless is greyed out an d I am unable to check it.

[Yellow Pasque]

Tried restarting after installing the new driver? (the modprobe is a workaround to avoid this, but it doesn't work...)

[czarjosh]

I did. I am still stuck.

[czarjosh]

I am still stuck on this. I just did a fresh install and I am getting the same problem. I wanted to paste some outputs to see if anyone of is useful to all of you.

"Enable Wireless" is greyed out.

$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
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)


$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:b7:c6:21
inet addr:192.168.1.39 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:feb7:c621/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3258970 (3.2 MB) TX bytes:455334 (455.3 KB)
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: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)


$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth2 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth2 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 4657 1
nls_cp437 6375 1
vfat 10954 1
fat 56244 1 vfat
usb_storage 50372 1
binfmt_misc 7984 1
parport_pc 30086 0
ppdev 6804 0
joydev 11363 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 64667 1
radeon 906714 3
snd_hda_intel 26019 2
snd_hda_codec 100919 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6660 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 89104 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
ttm 68212 1 radeon
snd_seq_midi 5932 0
drm_kms_helper 32836 1 radeon
snd_rawmidi 22207 1 snd_seq_midi
b44 31274 0
ssb 46169 1 b44
mii 5261 1 b44
drm 206161 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq_midi_event 7291 1 snd_seq_midi
lib80211_crypt_tkip 8732 0
snd_seq 57512 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
i2c_algo_bit 6208 1 radeon
wl 1965231 0
snd_timer 23850 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6912 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
dell_wmi 3372 0
lib80211 6175 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
dell_laptop 6722 0
snd 64117 13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_se q_device
dcdbas 6910 1 dell_laptop
edac_core 46822 0
psmouse 62080 0
serio_raw 4910 0
i2c_piix4 10047 0
shpchp 34910 0
k8temp 4064 0
soundcore 1240 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8588 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
edac_mce_amd 9387 0
video 22176 0
output 2527 1 video
lp 10201 0
parport 37032 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ahci 21857 0
sdhci_pci 7765 0
libahci 26167 3 ahci
sdhci 18400 1 sdhci_pci
led_class 3393 1 sdhci
pata_atiixp 4405 0

[sgosnell]

Your wireless card isn't necessarily wlan0. On my system, it's wlan1.

[czarjosh]

Yes. I think mine is "lo"

[czarjosh]

I mean eth2

[sgosnell]

Have you tried enabling eth2?