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Vry
October 6th, 2012, 05:05 AM
Installed Easy Peasy, just an ubuntu derivative centered around Unity, and am having a hellish time with it not finding the wireless card:


root@sonata:~# uname -a
Linux sonata 2.6.32-43-generic #97-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 5 16:43:09 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
root@sonata:~# lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
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system P151EMx
/0 bus P151EMx
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/10 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/11 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/12 memory 6MiB L3 cache
/0/13 memory 16GiB System Memory
/0/13/0 memory 4GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/13/1 memory 4GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/13/2 memory 4GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/13/3 memory 4GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/14 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
/0/14/3.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/14/3.2 processor Logical CPU
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/0/1 processor
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/0/100 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1/0 display nVidia Corporation
/0/100/2 display Intel Corporation
/0/100/14 bus Intel Corporation
/0/100/16 communication Intel Corporation
/0/100/1a bus Intel Corporation
/0/100/1b multimedia Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c.1 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c.1/0 generic Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
/0/100/1c.1/0.2 eth0 network RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1c.2 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c.2/0 network Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
/0/100/1c.3 bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c.3/0 bus IEEE 1394 Host Controller
/0/100/1d bus Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f bridge Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.2 scsi1 storage Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 58GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3 /dev/sda3 volume 39GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/4 /dev/sda4 volume 14GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 121MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 976MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/7 /dev/sda7 volume 976MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/8 /dev/sda8 volume 7152MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/9 /dev/sda9 volume 976MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/4/a /dev/sda10 volume 4265MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk BD-CMB UJ141AF
/0/100/1f.3 bus Intel Corporation
/1 power To Be Filled By O.E.M.

root@sonata:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0154 (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0151 (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e31 (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e3a (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e2d (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1e20 (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e10 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e12 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e14 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e16 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e26 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e57 (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e03 (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 1e22 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1213 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Class ff00: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289 (rev 01)
03:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 0a)
04:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8723
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 30)
root@sonata:~# rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
root@sonata:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:f5:d0:ec:9b
inet addr:192.168.1.135 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:fed0:ec9b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:82806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:118783756 (118.7 MB) TX bytes:4073513 (4.0 MB)
Interrupt:30 Base address:0x2000

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:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8048 (8.0 KB) TX bytes:8048 (8.0 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ce:46:20:70:48:1e
inet6 addr: fe80::cc46:20ff:fe70:481e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:468 (468.0 B)
Just in case...

root@sonata:~# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 5986:0361 Acer, Inc
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 147e:1002 Upek
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8723 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubDon't have a hardware switch, although there is a software switch as far are the keyboard bits go, and a corresponding light that says whether it thinks wireless is enabled or disabled. More than happy to give any other information - I have zero experience with Ubuntu, though I have a fair bit of experience with other distributions. Wireless works in Windows flawlessly, obviously just having issues with it existing here in Linux.
Vry
October 6th, 2012, 05:27 AM
Booted into Windows:


Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless LAN 802.11N PCI-E NIC
C:\Windows\System32\DRIVERS\rtwlane.sys
C:\Windows\system32\drivers\vwfibus.sy
PCI bus , device , function 0
oem19.inf
inf section: RTL872ae.ndi

Perusing forum posts and looks like there exists an rtlwifi package that isn't in the standard repos that may have the drivers. Still would take any help I can get :]
Vry
October 6th, 2012, 06:32 AM
I tried to install using the Anonymous dropbox file from May that I found a few other people had success with and hit compile errors:


base.c:1394: warning: 'enum ieee80211_smps_mode' declared inside parameter list
base.c:1394: error: parameter 3 ('smps') has incomplete type
base.c:1422: error: type of formal parameter 2 is incomplete

Was following directions found under the answer here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/139632/wireless-card-realtek-rtl8723ae-bt-is-not-recognized

Edit: It's late, I didn't realize just how old the kernel version I was on, was. While it should work per the readme, I'm downloading ubuntu normal live cd and giving that a whirl. I thought I'd read a while back that unity was discontinued in normal ubuntu, but if I can get the wireless working I imagine she'd live and learn a new DE.