Aspire 3690 strange wireless behaviour

[wildmanne39]

Has anyone tries their Aspire 3690 with 10.04 instead? I'm assuming it's not recommended to use the older versions of Ubuntu incase there are security flaws etc.?

Hi, I am sorry that it has taken me so long to get back to you I have been very sick.

Please run this command, I may have had the syntax incorrect before.

sudo rmmod -f acer-wmi

Unplug your wired and usb connection first and see if it fixes your problem, if it does we will need to blacklist it and please do not restart your computer after you run the command.
Thank you

[joner101]

Hi There,
Thanks for the reply and I'm sorry to hear you have been unwell. I hope you're on the road to recovery.
Anyway, I tried your command in terminal and the following was returned:
ERROR: Removing 'acer_wmi': No such file or directory
Any ideas?
Joner

[wildmanne39]

Hi, lets start at the beginning, please post the outcome of these commands, you can copy them to a usb jump drive if you need to then paste them here on the system that has internet.

lspci -nn | grep 0280

sudo lshw -C network

iwconfig

rfkill list all

lsmod

by clicking on new reply and click # and paste the information between the brackets.

[joner101]

OK, here goes. I'm actually using the Acer Aspire 3690, but hard wired via LAN.

Anyway, the terminal results are as follows:

joner101@Aspire-3690:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)




joner101@Aspire-3690:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for joner101:
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:06:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:16:d4:ac:f5:6b
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.104 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:21 memory:d0000000-d0001fff
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
resources: irq:22 memory:d0002000-d0003fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:19:7d:43:d7:82
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.38-11-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg




joner101@Aspire-3690:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff



joner101@Aspire-3690:~$ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no




joner101@Aspire-3690:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 32111 0
ppdev 12849 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 255882 1
arc4 12473 2
binfmt_misc 13213 1
snd_hda_intel 24113 2
snd_hda_codec 90901 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13274 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80042 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
i915 451033 3
b43 296610 0
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25269 1 snd_seq_midi
pcmcia 39671 0
mac80211 257001 1 b43
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 17322 0
snd_seq 51291 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
drm_kms_helper 40745 1 i915
gspca_vc032x 32072 0
snd_timer 28659 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14110 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
gspca_main 27894 1 gspca_vc032x
drm 184164 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
cfg80211 156212 2 b43,mac80211
yenta_socket 27230 0
i2c_algo_bit 13184 1 i915
pcmcia_rsrc 18292 1 yenta_socket
videodev 75143 1 gspca_main
snd 55295 13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,sn d_seq_device
soundcore 12600 1 snd
pcmcia_core 21505 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
snd_page_alloc 14073 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
psmouse 73312 0
serio_raw 12990 0
video 18951 1 i915
lp 13349 0
parport 36746 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
b44 35301 0
sdhci_pci 13623 0
ssb 45942 2 b43,b44
sdhci 22720 1 sdhci_pci

Have I posted these correctly? Is this what you expected to see?
Thanks again.
Joner

[wildmanne39]

Hi, yes you did it right.
You need the firmware for the driver please run this command with the wired connection plugged in.

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter && sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

now unplug the wired connection and restart your computer and it should work if it does not please post the results of these commands.

dmesg | grep b43

lsmod | grep b43

Thank you

[joner101]

What can I say.......It Works...... Chuffed would be an understatement.
Thanks for all your help.
Now I'm finally mobile with Ubuntu.
Regards,
Joner

[wildmanne39]

Hi, your welcome! I am glad I could help.