Wireless Connection

Thu Jun 2 05:58:56 UTC 2011

Here it is. Like I said, the physical wireless "on" button will not turn it on.
Looking at the "wireless" icon, it says "wireless is disabled by hardware switch".
It said before there was no wireless firmware.
Enable wireless is grayed out. It was not with the USB wireless tranceiver before,
when the system did a series of "driver updates" on it's own. System updates said
everything was at the latest version. Enable wireless came on and was checked while I was
using the USB, even after unconnecting it, but now after booting on it's own without, it's grayed out.
Enable networking was always active and checked.
It seems to "see" the card, but I can't "turn" it on.

revenger at revenger-Presario-V5000-EP421UA-ABA:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
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
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
revenger at revenger-Presario-V5000-EP421UA-ABA:~$

revenger at revenger-Presario-V5000-EP421UA-ABA:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:b0:bd:cb:3d
UP BROADCAST 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:22 Base address:0xa000

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:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8544 (8.5 KB) TX bytes:8544 (8.5 KB)

revenger at revenger-Presario-V5000-EP421UA-ABA:~$ 

Message: 10
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:24:22 +0600
From: Md Ashickur Rahman Noor <ashickur.noor at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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Subject: Re: Wireless Question
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please give the Output of *lspci* and *ifconfig.*
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM, MICHAEL J MARCINIAK <phxmke at me.com> wrote:

> Greetings. Trying to get my wireless card working, and this is as far as
> this newbie can get.
> 
> Compaq Presario v5005us
> 
> Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
> Wireless "on" button does not work on physical machine (did light up
> on it's own before installing Ubantu in Windoze and wireless worked).
> nm-tool reports "Driver:b43", "State:unavailable"
> 
> I did connect to a USB wireless adapter, and it updated several
> "drivers" and such on it's own. But, nm-tool reports a driver, it seems
> I just can't "power" it on on the laptop itself.
> 
> running "sudo lshw -C network" reveals the driver, version, but
> firmware=N/A.
> Is this a Compaq firmware missing issue (hence the physical "on" button
> doesn't work)? Can I update this somehow even the firmware most likely
> is Windoze only, or am I just hosed? It even lists the MAC address.
> 
> Ubuntu r11.04 (natty)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help

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