No 'enable wireless' option since upgrade to 12.10

[The_Cougar_Kid]

I have a DELL Desktop that has been dual boot with VISTA for some years. I originally installed 9.04, but I have upgraded over the years and recently to 12.10. I have NEVER had any wireless connection problems on this particular machine - until now! The machine uses a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318. I can connect by cable - but this PC is located about 15 metres from the router (it's a VERY LONG but very inconvenient cable!) but I really need to get the wireless connection working again. On the network menu there is no option to 'enable wireless' so no wireless networks are listed. If I look at 'edit connections' then the wireless connection is all present and correct. I have checked in the package manager that all the required networking components are installed. I have seen reference to trying 'additional drivers' from the 'Settings' options - but I don't get an 'additional drivers' option. Where next? Thanks for any help

[westie457]

What does

rfkill list all

tell us please

[The_Cougar_Kid]

What does

rfkill list all

tell us please

Nothing at all - it just returned straight to the prompt...

[westie457]

Not quite what was expected however not a problem as this tells us something.

Which driver are you using. Please post the output of

lsmod

Thank you

[The_Cougar_Kid]

As requested - thanks for your help

Module Size Used by
dm_crypt 22402 0
parport_pc 31968 0
ppdev 12817 0
rfcomm 37276 0
bnep 17707 2
bluetooth 183228 10 rfcomm,bnep
binfmt_misc 17260 1
coretemp 13168 0
dcdbas 14054 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 63356 1
snd_hda_intel 32515 3
snd_hda_codec 111547 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13272 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80163 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
gspca_spca561 14033 0
gspca_main 27626 1 gspca_spca561
videodev 95841 1 gspca_main
microcode 18209 0
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
psmouse 84843 0
snd_rawmidi 25382 1 snd_seq_midi
serio_raw 13031 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51255 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
usblp 17751 0
snd_timer 24411 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
lpc_ich 16925 0
snd 61991 15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,sn d_seq_device
soundcore 14599 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14036 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mac_hid 13037 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40753 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
hid_generic 12445 0
usbhid 41702 0
hid 82142 2 hid_generic,usbhid
radeon 820703 3
floppy 55444 0
ttm 75534 1 radeon
e1000e 174645 0
drm_kms_helper 45271 1 radeon
drm 230463 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 radeon

[The_Cougar_Kid]

Does this help at all? Under 'network' it only mentions my wired connection. See the attachment

[The_Cougar_Kid]

sorry - it wouldn't accept the attachment in html format. This is the salient bit

d:network
description: Ethernet interface product: 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02 serial: 00:1e:c9:71:80:61 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.0.0-k duplex=full firmware=1.1-2


latency=0 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:41 memory:fdfc0000-fdfdffff memory:fdfff000-fdffffff ioport:ff00(size=32)

[westie457]

At the moment you have no wireless driver installed that I can see.

Please post the output of

lspci -vnn

or

lshw -C network

Could you put this between [code]
paste here

[ /code] tags. Clicking the # at the top of the message pane will generate the tags for you.

Thank you

[The_Cougar_Kid]

[Code}
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
Memory at fdfc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at ff00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at fe00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at fd00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at fc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
Memory at fdff4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at fb00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at fa00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at f900 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at fdffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 92) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fdc00000-fdcfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fde00000-00000000fdefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2916] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2920] (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at f800 [size=8]
I/O ports at f700 [size=4]
I/O ports at f600 [size=8]
I/O ports at f500 [size=4]
I/O ports at f400 [size=16]
I/O ports at f300 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at fdffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 0500 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2926] (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at f100 [size=8]
I/O ports at f000 [size=4]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=8]
I/O ports at ee00 [size=4]
I/O ports at ed00 [size=16]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] [1002:94c3] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Radeon HD 2400 Pro [1028:0302]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fddf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at ce00 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon

02:01.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. WL-138G v2 / WL-138gE / WL-100gE [1043:100f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at fdcfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Kernel modules: ssb
[/code]

[The_Cougar_Kid]

WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
alaric@UPSTAIRS2U:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for alaric: 
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1e:c9:71:80:61
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.0.0-k duplex=full firmware=1.1-2 ip=192.168.1.82 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:41 memory:fdfc0000-fdfdffff memory:fdfff000-fdffffff ioport:ff00(size=32)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fdcfe000-fdcfffff
alaric@UPSTAIRS2U:~$