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While following these instructions for connecting my new toshiba satellite A505 to my wireless access point.
I do not get a list of any available access points. I know for a fact that where I live there are about 15 access points that My wireless adapter can see while I'm booted into windows.
At the moment I'm doing the post install update, and I hope this resolves the issue, but is there something else I need to do?
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If that Toshiba Satellite happens to have a Realtek 8192SE wireless adapter, this seems to be the way to fix those:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=10
If not, you should post the results of these commands:
Code:lsmod uname -a lspci lsusb sudo lshw -C network
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mine is RTL8191SE
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lsmodOriginally Posted by LinuxFanBoi
mine is RTL8191SE
uname -aCode:Module Size Used by nls_iso8859_1 5280 1 nls_cp437 6976 1 vfat 13184 1 fat 59832 1 vfat cbc 4224 162 cryptd 8008 0 aes_x86_64 8992 163 aes_generic 28480 1 aes_x86_64 ecb 3296 1 binfmt_misc 10220 1 ppdev 8232 0 dm_crypt 14888 0 joydev 13088 0 snd_hda_codec_realtek 277860 1 snd_hda_intel 31880 2 snd_hda_codec 87584 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel lp 11908 0 snd_hwdep 9352 1 snd_hda_codec uvcvideo 65260 0 sdhci_pci 8928 0 sdhci 20484 1 sdhci_pci snd_pcm_oss 44704 0 psmouse 57124 0 snd_mixer_oss 18976 1 snd_pcm_oss videodev 43360 1 uvcvideo parport 40528 2 ppdev,lp serio_raw 6596 0 v4l1_compat 16804 2 uvcvideo,videodev snd_pcm 93160 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss v4l2_compat_ioctl32 13344 1 videodev led_class 5256 1 sdhci snd_seq_dummy 3460 0 snd_seq_oss 33440 0 snd_seq_midi 8192 0 snd_rawmidi 27360 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi snd_seq 60608 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 26992 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 8308 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq iptable_filter 3872 0 ip_tables 21200 1 iptable_filter snd 77096 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 9088 1 snd x_tables 25832 1 ip_tables snd_page_alloc 10928 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm usb_storage 65984 1 ohci1394 33780 0 ieee1394 100896 1 ohci1394 video 23612 0 output 3680 1 video r8169 38884 0 mii 6368 1 r8169 intel_agp 32816 0
lspciCode:Linux Icarus 2.6.31-16-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 3 22:07:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsusbCode:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a28 (rev a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10) 04:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01) 04:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230 (rev 01) 04:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e852 (rev 01) 04:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Device e832 (rev 01)
sudo lshw -C networkCode:Bus 007 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 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:3207 Hewlett-Packard Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b128 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Code:*-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 02 serial: 00:1e:33:fd:54:fe 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=192.168.0.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s resources: irq:30 ioport:5000(size=256) memory:d3110000-d3110fff(prefetchable) memory:d3100000-d310ffff(prefetchable) memory:d3120000-d313ffff(prefetchable) *-network UNCLAIMED description: Network controller product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: 10 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d9300000-d9303fff
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Yikes- that's 64-bit and I've been tearing my hair out for weeks with a 64-bit Toshiba Satellite P505D with the Realtek 8192E. You might still get that 8192SE method to work though.
Have you got a working network cable connection available, or are both the ethernet "eth0" and the wireless dead?
Run these commands in a terminal and post the results here, too:
How do you feel about installing 32-bit ubuntu and maybe running 32-bit Windows drivers under ndiswrapper to get wireless ubuntu? That worked great for weeks on that 64-bit Toshiba until we "upgraded???" it...Code:ifconfig iwconfig less /etc/modules
Last edited by northd_tech; December 6th, 2009 at 11:38 PM.
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Wired Ethernet works just fine.
ifconfig
iwconfigCode:eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:33:fd:54:fe inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fefd:54fe/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6317165 (6.3 MB) TX bytes:475025 (475.0 KB) Interrupt:30 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:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
less /etc/modulesCode:lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions.
Code:# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored. lp rtc
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That seems a little weird (and 32-bit would actually be a blessing in disguise from my experience with these Realteks). You've got 64-bit on that Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller, but it's showing 32-bit on the wireless- that could be the "r8169" module.
Last edited by northd_tech; December 7th, 2009 at 12:08 AM.
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EDIT: Whoops- that is your Ethernet module- don't remove it. If you already did, just run this
You might need to restart after that to re-initialize the modules (sorry about that).Code:sudo insmod r8169 sudo insmod mii sudo depmod -a
It doesn't look like we need to change /etc/modules, but that command would be
if we did need to. Then I'd try following chili555's method that I linked above that works for the 8192SE.Code:sudo gksu gedit /etc/modules
Otherwise, you need to start looking for some 64-bit drivers for either XP, Vista, or Win7 for that Realek 8191SE.
You might have the best luck going into your Windows Device Manager and checking the "Driver Properties"- you should only need 2 files there- *.inf and *.sys usually, but I'm not sure what they'll be called.
You should be able to mount your Windows partition under "Places" from ubuntu, but it will probably be easier to find the driver filenames under Windows. Otherwise, you can extract the files from the proper Windows driver file if you can find the right one online.
Make sure you've got a "Wireless Windows Drivers" down at the bottom of the System>Administration> menu if you're still in ubuntu. If it's not there, you can install ndiswrapper and wireless tools from the Synaptic Package Manager under System>Administration.
It looks like we can find you some Windows drivers here (or probably at Toshiba's website too):
http://support.gateway.com/support/d...07.1.1002.2009
http://www.64bitdrivers.com/search.php?s=realtek
Last edited by northd_tech; December 7th, 2009 at 12:12 AM.
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Revised,
I downloaded the 64bid windows drivers, added them to ndiswrapper and I get this;
Last edited by LinuxFanBoi; December 7th, 2009 at 12:46 AM.
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See if you can find an "rtl8192se.inf" and a "vfiwibus.inf" hiding somewhere in your \Windows\ directory- those are the one(s) that you will actually point the System>Administration>Wireless Windows Driver (ndiswrapper applet) to to install those *.sys files.
You will want to copy all those to a directory or your ubuntu desktop and then probably move them to a /WifiDrivers directory under your home ubuntu directory ("cd ~") for future convenience.
There is a "ndiswrapper" thread pinned here for tips:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=ndiswrapper
It sounded like chili555's method worked for the "native" linux 8192SE driver on this thread though (it's worth a shot- most people like that way better):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=ndiswrapper
If you decide to use the windows drivers you will need to add this to your /etc/modules file so that you don't need to load ndiswrapper module manually each time:
Then add these lines at the bottom of that editor window, save the file, then close gedit:Code:sudo gksu gedit /etc/modules
The Windows wireless drivers have worked on mine for over a year with a bunch of different Linuces, but I've got an easier Linux native driver for my Broadcom in the HP laptop.Code:# ndiswrapper loads the Windows wireless driver for the Realtek 8191SE WiFi interface ndiswrapper
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