9.10 HP dv3 laptop: today's update killed wireless

[inverseroom]

Today's Karmic update killed the wireless on my HP dv3 laptop--wicd just says "no wireless network detected." Have never had wireless issues before. Can anyone tell me how to begin troubleshooting this problem?

[northd_tech]

Hi.

Can you post the results of the commands in my post #33 here into a terminal window?:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=33

You can click the "#" to get the CODE tags or "<>" for HTML tags in the post window to set apart the terminal results. You should be able to just cut/paste the results so that we can see what kind of hardware you are running.

There is a good chance that your HP uses something very similar to what my HP DV98xx wireless uses (and I've run many different Linuces on that for over a year now).

[inverseroom]

Hi.

Can you post the results of the commands in my post #33 here into a terminal window?:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=33

You can click the "#" to get the CODE tags or "<>" for HTML tags in the post window to set apart the terminal results. You should be able to just cut/paste the results so that we can see what kind of hardware you are running.

There is a good chance that your HP uses something very similar to what my HP DV98xx wireless uses (and I've run many different Linuces on that for over a year now).

Will do! Back in a few minutes with that. I'm surprised to find that ethernet is also dead. Both my windows computers are connecting fine.

[inverseroom]

Here you go. Even I can tell that iwconfig is not right.

ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:23:5a:43:96:d3  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:35 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1080 (1.0 KB)  TX bytes:6220 (6.2 KB)
          Interrupt:28 Base address:0x4000 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:00:da:e8:ae  
          inet6 addr: fe80::221:ff:feda:e8ae/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 

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.

eth1      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated  

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

lsusb:

Bus 006 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 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 13fe:1d00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. DataTraveler 2.0 1GB/4GB Flash Drive / Patriot Xporter 4GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 064e:a102 Suyin Corp. 
Bus 001 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 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc. AES1600
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3740  1 
nls_cp437               5372  1 
vfat                   10716  1 
fat                    51452  1 vfat
binfmt_misc             8356  1 
ppdev                   6688  0 
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi     3356  1 
snd_hda_codec_idt      59844  1 
snd_hda_intel          26920  2 
snd_hda_codec          75708  3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,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
iptable_filter          3100  0 
snd_seq_dummy           2656  0 
snd_seq_oss            28576  0 
ip_tables              11692  1 iptable_filter
snd_seq_midi            6432  0 
x_tables               16544  1 ip_tables
snd_rawmidi            22208  1 snd_seq_midi
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_midi_event
uvcvideo               59080  0 
videodev               36736  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            14496  2 uvcvideo,videodev
lib80211_crypt_tkip     8636  0 
psmouse                56500  0 
serio_raw               5280  0 
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_idt,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
i2c_piix4               9932  0 
fglrx                1989532  28 
agpgart                34988  1 fglrx
soundcore               7264  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9156  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
wl                   1272936  0 
lib80211                6432  2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
shpchp                 32272  0 
joydev                 10272  0 
lirc_ene0100            8096  0 
lirc_dev               10804  1 lirc_ene0100
hp_accel               11228  0 
lis3lv02d               7452  1 hp_accel
input_polldev           3716  1 lis3lv02d
led_class               4096  1 hp_accel
lp                      8964  0 
parport                35340  2 ppdev,lp
usb_storage            52576  1 
r8169                  32064  0 
mii                     5212  1 r8169
video                  19380  0 
output                  2780  1 video

lshw -C network:

  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: 00:21:00:da:e8:ae
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.10.91.9 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:18 memory:d1100000-d1103fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:23:5a:43:96:d3
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI latency=0 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:28 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d1010000-d1010fff(prefetchable) memory:d1000000-d100ffff(prefetchable) memory:d1020000-d102ffff(prefetchable)

[inverseroom]

BTW, under hardware drivers, it says that the Broadcom STA wireless driver is activated and in use.

[inverseroom]

You know what...this is very embarrassing, but I think what happened is, when I picked up my laptop to move it earlier, my thumb inadvertently hit the network on/off hardware "button". I now have my wireless back.

Thanks, all.