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    toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    I just installed ubuntu 12.04, and although I can get online with an ethernet cord, I have no wifi access.
    I've run most of the code provided in this post. I'd be happy to give details, but this is what seems most important to me:
    $lspci gives me a bunch of entries, including one for 02:00.0 Ethernet controller (it's an Atheros AR8152 v 1.1 if you're interested) but no wifi controller or anything.
    $iwconfig returns lo and eth0, both with "no wireless extensions."
    ndiswrapper is installed.
    I installed ndisgtk and it says I have no wireless drivers.
    I'm kind of lost and this is a pain, so if you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Quote Originally Posted by happyturtle View Post
    I just installed ubuntu 12.04, and although I can get online with an ethernet cord, I have no wifi access.
    I've run most of the code provided in this post. I'd be happy to give details,
    Yes, please provide the outputs of the commands given in that post.

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Welcome to the forums. Please provide the output of:

    Code:
    sudo lshw -C network
    That is a very old thread you have linked to (over four years) and the information given could well be (is probably) obsolete. ndiswrapper is largely superseded. Did you do an update with the cable then check Additional Drivers?

    With ndiswrapper installed and the wrong driver you won't have much luck getting anything else to work.

    Please provide the output of the command I have provided and that should give us the card and what you have installed for it along with other info.
    Last edited by Bucky Ball; January 30th, 2013 at 03:21 AM.

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Quote Originally Posted by happyturtle View Post
    I just installed ubuntu 12.04, and although I can get online with an ethernet cord, I have no wifi access.
    I've run most of the code provided in this post. I'd be happy to give details, but this is what seems most important to me:
    $lspci gives me a bunch of entries, including one for 02:00.0 Ethernet controller (it's an Atheros AR8152 v 1.1 if you're interested) but no wifi controller or anything.
    $iwconfig returns lo and eth0, both with "no wireless extensions."
    ndiswrapper is installed.
    I installed ndisgtk and it says I have no wireless drivers.
    I'm kind of lost and this is a pain, so if you have any ideas I'd appreciate it.
    ok...do you have wifi on your windows? if you have it, boot back into windows to find your wireless card type. then record it down. boot back into ubuntu, and use a ethernet connection to visit linuxwireless.org, and that is a good website to find most of your drivers. find your driver, open a terminal, follow the instructions for ubuntu, reboot and hope your wifi will work!
    and also, remove ndiswrapper. i tried it out but it never works and i dont know why. it will also crash with the driver provided on linuxwireless.org. also do a sudo apt-get update before doing anything.

    thanks!
    Last edited by AngJinhang; January 30th, 2013 at 04:02 AM. Reason: forgot to type in something

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Quote Originally Posted by AngJinhang View Post
    ok...do you have wifi on your windows? if you have it, boot back into windows to find your wireless card type.
    I have already provided a command to find this information and a lot more while in Ubuntu in the post directly above yours. Please read all posts, not just the first one, to avoid repitition. Thanks.

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    sudo lshw -C network:
    *-network
    description: Ethernet interface
    product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
    vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
    physical id: 0
    bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
    logical name: eth0
    version: c1
    serial: c8:0a:a9:65:60:0e
    size: 100Mbit/s
    capacity: 100Mbit/s
    width: 64 bits
    clock: 33MHz
    capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
    configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.10.160 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
    resources: irq:42 memory:f2000000-f203ffff ioport:6000(size=128)

    Also: I did install updates, but the only thing under additional drivers is a graphics driver.

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Can anyone help me with this problem?

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Please provide the outputs requested from this post:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6183681

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    Re: toshiba satellite w/ atheros running 12.04--no wifi

    Okay, here goes:
    1) toshiba satellite L645d
    2) lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 9602
    00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
    00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
    00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
    00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
    00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
    00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
    00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
    00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
    00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
    00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
    00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
    00:16.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
    00:16.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 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
    01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]
    02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)

    lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
    Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
    Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
    Bus 002 Device 007: ID 04f2:b1d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
    and lspci -nn | grep 'Wireless Brand' returns no results...

    3)ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:0a:a9:65:60:0e
    inet addr:192.168.10.160 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    inet6 addr: fe80::ca0a:a9ff:fe65:600e/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:82490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:45037 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:115643045 (115.6 MB) TX bytes:4259649 (4.2 MB)
    Interrupt:42

    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:7826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:7826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:836821 (836.8 KB) TX bytes:836821 (836.8 KB)
    iwconfig: lo no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.
    iwconfig wlan0: wlan0 No such device

    4)lsmod: Module Size Used by
    nls_iso8859_1 12713 0
    nls_cp437 16991 0
    vfat 17585 0
    fat 61512 1 vfat
    vesafb 13844 1
    snd_hda_codec_conexant 62358 1
    snd_hda_intel 33773 3
    snd_hda_codec 127706 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
    snd_hwdep 17764 1 snd_hda_codec
    snd_pcm 97275 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
    bnep 18281 2
    snd_seq_midi 13324 0
    rfcomm 47604 0
    bluetooth 180153 10 bnep,rfcomm
    fglrx 3264017 54
    snd_rawmidi 30748 1 snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
    uvcvideo 72627 0
    videodev 98259 1 uvcvideo
    joydev 17693 0
    snd_seq 61929 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
    v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17128 1 videodev
    snd_timer 29990 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
    snd_seq_device 14540 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
    snd 79041 15 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec ,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,s nd_seq_device
    sp5100_tco 13791 0
    edac_core 53746 0
    psmouse 97485 0
    k10temp 13166 0
    edac_mce_amd 23709 0
    i2c_piix4 13301 0
    soundcore 15091 1 snd
    snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
    toshiba_acpi 18582 0
    video 19596 0
    serio_raw 13211 0
    sparse_keymap 13890 1 toshiba_acpi
    parport_pc 32866 0
    shpchp 37277 0
    ppdev 17113 0
    mac_hid 13253 0
    wmi 19256 1 toshiba_acpi
    lp 17799 0
    parport 46562 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
    ums_realtek 18248 0
    uas 18180 0
    atl1c 41718 0
    usb_storage 49198 1 ums_realtek
    lsmod | grep "wlan_module_name" returns no results

    5) do you really want all of dmesg it's ******* long

    6) you can find the results from this above

    7) lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

    eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
    iwlist scan wlan0: iwlist: unknown command `wlan0' (check 'iwlist --help').

    8) iwlist: unknown command `wlan0' (check 'iwlist --help').

    9) iwlist: unknown command `wlan0' (check 'iwlist --help').

    10) * Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces
    * Reconfiguring network interfaces...

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