Ubuntu Netbook Remix on Dell Mini 10 (NO WIRELESS CONNECTION)

[msackley]

Hey all, so I got a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 for Xmas and it orginally came with Windows 7 Starter which sucked, so I decided to installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix tonight and everything seemed to go just fine. I installed it with little issues using the flash drive method.

Now I cannot get a wireless connection to work for the life of me. I'm a total linux noob. I have never used it before in my life. I have been reading and it seems like this is a very common issue but most of this stuff is all kind of confusing I really wish it would be a little more simple. I'm able to get the internet to work when I directly connect it through a wired connection but it will not recognize any wireless connections/networks when I know there are some.

The network that I am trying to connect to is my home router which has no password on it at the moment so for the security issues it shouldn't be difficult to connect to but linux isn't even picking it up in the network manager thing.

If anyone could help me with simple steps and maybe dumb it down as when things get really technical i start to get lost as Ive noticed after reading some other things.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want to use linux and really enjoy it but this one small issue is going to be a major one if I dont get it fixed.

Thanks!

[msackley]

Here is an update with the specific information from the terminal below:

1) Machine Brand and Model: Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (originally had windows 7 starter)

2) Wireless Brand, Model and Wireless Chipset:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 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 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
matt@msackley:~$



3) Interface

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:e8:ed:c6:6d
inet addr:192.168.1.109 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:e8ff:feed:c66d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1755 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2613298 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:242711 (242.7 KB)
Interrupt:27 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: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)



iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

4) Modules:

lsmod
Module Size Used by
usbhid 38208 0
binfmt_misc 8356 1
ppdev 6688 0
joydev 10272 0
uvcvideo 59080 0
videodev 36736 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 14496 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_hda_codec_realtek 203328 1
psmouse 56180 0
serio_raw 5280 0
lp 8964 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
snd_hda_intel 26920 2
snd_hda_codec 75708 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7200 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
dell_wmi 2564 0
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
compal_laptop 3728 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
b43 122136 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
mac80211 181236 1 b43
dcdbas 7292 0
usb_storage 52544 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
cfg80211 93052 2 b43,mac80211
led_class 4096 1 b43
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 59204 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_se q_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
iptable_filter 3100 0
soundcore 7264 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
fbcon 36640 72
tileblit 2460 1 fbcon
font 8124 1 fbcon
bitblit 5372 1 fbcon
softcursor 1756 1 bitblit
ssb 35300 1 b43
r8169 32064 0
mii 5212 1 r8169
i915 221064 3
drm 159584 3 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 i915
intel_agp 27484 2 i915
agpgart 34988 2 drm,intel_agp
video 19380 1 i915
output 2780 1 video


5) Network Configuration

password for matt:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
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: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:24:e8:ed:c6:6d
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=192.168.1.109 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:27 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0510000-f0510fff(prefetchable) memory:f0500000-f050ffff(prefetchable) memory:f0520000-f053ffff(prefetchable)


7) Scan for networks

iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.


8) Ubuntu Version

lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 9.10


9) Kernel/architecture

uname -mr
2.6.31-14-generic i686


Restarting the network

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

[focwiz]

Hey all, so I got a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 for Xmas and it orginally came with Windows 7 Starter which sucked, so I decided to installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix tonight and everything seemed to go just fine. I installed it with little issues using the flash drive method.

Now I cannot get a wireless connection to work for the life of me. I'm a total linux noob. I have never used it before in my life. I have been reading and it seems like this is a very common issue but most of this stuff is all kind of confusing I really wish it would be a little more simple. I'm able to get the internet to work when I directly connect it through a wired connection but it will not recognize any wireless connections/networks when I know there are some.

The network that I am trying to connect to is my home router which has no password on it at the moment so for the security issues it shouldn't be difficult to connect to but linux isn't even picking it up in the network manager thing.

If anyone could help me with simple steps and maybe dumb it down as when things get really technical i start to get lost as Ive noticed after reading some other things.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I really want to use linux and really enjoy it but this one small issue is going to be a major one if I dont get it fixed.

Thanks!

Ahhh...Broadcom Chipset....see this post..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1368699

[msackley]

Just wanted to say THANKS! Its working like a charm now im posting from my now Dell Mini 10 with UNR on it rather than that lame Windows 7 Starter!

Thanks for the help!

[focwiz]

Just wanted to say THANKS! Its working like a charm now im posting from my now Dell Mini 10 with UNR on it rather than that lame Windows 7 Starter!

Thanks for the help!

You are welcome...the geniuses on this site are great aren't they...they have helped me a lot. Please mark this post "Solved"