Marvell 88w8335 [Libertas] Wireless (Advent 7105)

[Jintawk]

Hello,

I'm running Lubuntu 11.10 on my Advent 7105 laptop and I'm having a lot of trouble getting a wireless network connection.

I've followed a lot of installation guides for installing drivers using ndiswrapper, including this one:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/mrv8k

And this one:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847

I've tried every step mentioned a few times with no results.

I'm assuming my issue with the wireless is that the network is reported as UNCLAIMED when I run lshw -C Network.
However I don't know how to resolve this.

This is the output from lspci -nn:
...
02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless [11ab:1faa] (rev 43):

This is the output from lshw -C Network:
root@jim-Lubuntu:~# lshw -C Network
*-network:0 UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
version: 10
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32
resources: ioport:e800(size=256) memory:febffc00-febffcff
*-network:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
version: 43
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64
resources: memory:febe0000-febeffff memory:febd0000-febdffff

This is the output from ndiswrapper -l
root@jim-Lubuntu:~# ndiswrapper -l
mrv8335 : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present


Even though ndiswrapper module is configured to be loaded at boot, running lsmod | grep ndis returns nothing.

Running sudo modprobe ndiswrapper results in any interaction with any network related function to be completely broken. For example now running lshw -C Network will cause terminal to halt indefinitely, as will running such commands as iwlist. This can only be solved by a reboot.


There is a physical wireless toggle button on the laptop which does nothing when pressed, there is no visible wireless LED.


Any suggestions on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[praseodym]

Hi,

check this thread, post 1113

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847&page=112

[Jintawk]

Thanks for replying,

I tried the instructions from post #1113 twice.. one on my current installation of lubuntu and once on a new fresh installation.

Unfortunately the results are the same.

I followed the steps in post #1113, installed the relevant mrv8335 drivers into ndiswrapper and rebooted. The network is still listed as UNCLAIMED.