I have only just got my first netbook and when I first installed 11.2 on it it would detect local networks and ask if I wanted to use any of them. Since they belonged to other people and I use a wired connection at home, I declined.
I then took my netbook on travels and tried to connect to freely available networks there, but to my surprise it no longer detected them. I tried to go through YAsT and see what needs to be changed but no matter what I tried the wireless option was never offered again.
I have now come back and decided to get to the bottom of this. Here is what I get from iwlist scan:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning
Also, from iwconfig I get:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
It is as if there has never been a wireless capability. Can anyone advise on what to do to fix this?
On 11/08/2010 08:36 AM, naimab wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have only just got my first netbook and when I first installed 11.2
> on it it would detect local networks and ask if I wanted to use any of
> them. Since they belonged to other people and I use a wired connection
> at home, I declined.
>
> I then took my netbook on travels and tried to connect to freely
> available networks there, but to my surprise it no longer detected them.
> I tried to go through YAsT and see what needs to be changed but no
> matter what I tried the wireless option was never offered again.
>
> I have now come back and decided to get to the bottom of this. Here is
> what I get from iwlist scan:
> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning
> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning
>
> Also, from iwconfig I get:
> lo no wireless extensions
> eth0 no wireless extensions
>
> It is as if there has never been a wireless capability. Can anyone
> advise on what to do to fix this?
To me, it looks as if no driver is installed for your wireless. As our crystal
balls are broken, we are unable to figure out your system until you provide a
lot more information.
If your wireless is connected to a PCI bus, you should post the output of the
command
/sbin/lspci -nnk
If it is a USB device, please post the output of
/usr/sbin/lsusb
For the latter, you may have to install the usbutils package.
Thanks. I appreciate that you can not figure things out without information, but I did not know what information to look for.
Here is the output from /sbin/lspci -nnk:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ac]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ac]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ac]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8437]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ad]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:838a]
Kernel driver in use: atl1c
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device [1a3b:1112]
I think this device is your wireless. As you notice, it has no driver loaded.
I’m asking the Atheros people on the linux-wireless mailing list to see what
they know about it. I’ll let you know what they say.
On 11/08/2010 07:36 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 04:06 PM, naimab wrote:
>> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device
>> [168c:002c] (rev 01)
>> Subsystem: Device [1a3b:1112]
>
> I think this device is your wireless. As you notice, it has no driver loaded.
> I’m asking the Atheros people on the linux-wireless mailing list to see what
> they know about it. I’ll let you know what they say.
Are you really sure that your wireless once worked? The reason I asked is that
the Atheros developers say “this adapter shall be supported by the ath9k.”
They are aware that it is not supported and are working toward having a driver
for the device.
The only way to make that device work in the near future is to use ndiswrapper
and a Windows driver.
Thanks for doing the research for me. I am quite sure that it did work, at least as far as automatically detedting available wireless networks. I had a small icon on the panel and after I declined joining networks for the first time it became greyed out and the tool tip over it suggested no networks were available. Now that icon is no longer there. Is it possible that a different device was involved?
On 11/09/2010 03:36 PM, naimab wrote:
>
> Thanks for doing the research for me. I am quite sure that it did work,
> at least as far as automatically detedting available wireless networks.
> I had a small icon on the panel and after I declined joining networks
> for the first time it became greyed out and the tool tip over it
> suggested no networks were available. Now that icon is no longer there.
> Is it possible that a different device was involved?
I just got a second response from them. Apparently, it is a legacy 802.11b/g
device that may be supported. Try the following:
On 11/12/2010 03:06 PM, naimab wrote:
>
> I tried the sequence of commands but the echo fails with the error:
> echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> The permissions of the new_id file are --w------, but the write error
> persists even if I do chmod 777.
These are not really files, thus changing the permissions doesn’t work.
> It is not clear to me why this is happening.
I got the syntax a little wrong. There should be a space, not a colon between
the two numbers. In addition, doing the echo with sudo does not work,