No wireless detected - HP Pavilion Slimline

[hworcester]

I'm trying to give new life to a (formerly) vista-clogged HP Pavilion Slimline s7713wPC. I think because of its small size, the wireless card is built in. I installed 8.04 and the wired connection is fine, but my wireless network is not detected. Here's the extent of what I get from sudo lshw -C network

description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:1a:73:1b:1d:e2
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Thoughts, anyone?

[inportb]

What's the wireless chipset? You can use lspci to determine what you've got.

[quelx]

Probably a Broadcom chip since the MAC address says it's made by Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd.

verify with lspci as inportb suggested

if so

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...river/bcm43xx/

[hworcester]

Here's the data from lspci:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
02:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem

[quelx]

how about

lsusb -v

look through the output if you see something that looks wirelessy and paste the output here

[hworcester]

This is all I can see:

iManufacturer 1 Gemtek
iProduct 2 USB Wireless 802.11b/g adaptor
iSerial 0

If a non-techie like me makes a switch to linux, MS should really start to worry.

[quelx]

can you post all of the lsusb -v output down to the Configuration Descriptor: line?

for example...

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 123c:4567 PackardBell Computer Inc. Wireless Bluetooth
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  ...
  iSerial                 0 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:

[ugm6hr]

This is all I can see:

iManufacturer 1 Gemtek
iProduct 2 USB Wireless 802.11b/g adaptor
iSerial 0

If a non-techie like me makes a switch to linux, MS should really start to worry.

A quick google suggests that this is a Ralink (RT) USB device, although the USB ID number should be checked (lsusb -vv)

I thought Hardy now supported them out-of-the-box?

[quelx]

Looking back over the post it looks like the device is detected (wlan0) so it must/might/may/mmmm be the rt73.

what does

lsmod|grep rt73

spit out? If it indeed shows rt73usb then...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4732883

[ugm6hr]

what does

lsmod|grep rt73

spit out? If it indeed shows rt73usb then...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4732883

But as I thought (from your link):

Notice: As of Ubuntu 8.04, Most (If not all) RT73 based devices are supported out-of-the-box.

Hmmm....