Wireless not working on HP G60-438NR Laptop

[spanishconnector]

Hi, I installed Lubuntu 11.10 on my HP G60-438NR Laptop but can not get the wireless connection to work. It works fine with Vista, but when running Lubuntu the wireless light remains on but not working nor turns off when I press the wireless button.

Typing lspci -v from the terminal shows the following info about my wireless card:


02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company AR5BXB63 (Foxconn) 802.11bg Mini PCIe NIC
Physical Slot: 1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d2600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k


Please help. Thank you in advance.

[praseodym]

Please show additionally:


rfkill list
iwconfig
lsmod
For the driver ath5k the hardware encryption needs to be deactivated:


echo "options ath5k nohwcrypt=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf
sudo modprobe -rfv ath5k
sudo modprobe -v ath5k

[spanishconnector]

Thank you for your prompt response. Here is the additional output you asked me to get:

rfkill list

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes


iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on


lsmod

Module Size Used by
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
bnep 17923 2
rfcomm 38408 0
bluetooth 148839 10 bnep,rfcomm
joydev 17393 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 31426 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 52418 1
arc4 12473 2
hp_wmi 13652 0
sparse_keymap 13658 1 hp_wmi
uvcvideo 67271 0
snd_hda_intel 24262 1
snd_hda_codec 91859 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_ intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
videodev 85626 1 uvcvideo
snd_pcm 80435 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25241 1 snd_seq_midi
psmouse 73673 0
serio_raw 12990 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
ath5k 145100 0
ath 19387 1 ath5k
mac80211 393421 1 ath5k
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
cfg80211 172427 3 ath5k,ath,mac80211
snd_timer 28932 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 55902 12 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_ intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
i915 509519 2
wmi 18744 1 hp_wmi
drm_kms_helper 32889 1 i915
drm 192194 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
soundcore 12600 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
video 18908 1 i915
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ahci 21634 2
libahci 25727 1 ahci
r8169 43104 0

For the other code you asked me to enter, I got some output too:

echo "options ath5k nohwcrypt=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf

options ath5k nohwcrypt=1

sudo modprobe -rfv ath5k

rmmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko

sudo modprobe -v ath5k

insmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.0.0-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko nohwcrypt=1

I guess I have to reboot, will tell you if it worked. Thanks.

[spanishconnector]

I rebooted but still not working :(

I pressed the wireless button, but doesn't seem to be working yet.

I have read in some forums that one has to uncheck wireless card from a "blacklist" in a config file, do you or anyoune around know anything about that? I really like Lubuntu, just need the wireless to work. Please help!

Anyway, below is my current output (I think it's basically still the same).

rfkill list

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no


iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on

lsmod

Module Size Used by
bnep 17923 2
rfcomm 38408 0
bluetooth 148839 10 bnep,rfcomm
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
joydev 17393 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 31426 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 52418 1
snd_hda_intel 24262 1
snd_hda_codec 91859 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_ intel
arc4 12473 2
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80435 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
hp_wmi 13652 0
sparse_keymap 13658 1 hp_wmi
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25241 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
uvcvideo 67271 0
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
videodev 85626 1 uvcvideo
snd_timer 28932 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ath5k 145100 0
wmi 18744 1 hp_wmi
ath 19387 1 ath5k
snd 55902 12 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_ intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
mac80211 393421 1 ath5k
i915 509519 2
drm_kms_helper 32889 1 i915
drm 192194 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
soundcore 12600 1 snd
psmouse 73673 0
video 18908 1 i915
cfg80211 172427 3 ath5k,ath,mac80211
serio_raw 12990 0
snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
ahci 21634 2
libahci 25727 1 ahci
r8169 43104 0

[praseodym]

Try:


sudo modprobe -rfv ath5k
sudo rmmod hp_wmi
sudo modprobe -v ath5k