Wireless Connection

Thu Jun 2 14:23:02 UTC 2011

I have an HP laptop with the similar problem.  The wireless adapter is
not working, there is no way to turn it on.  Previous releases
required a wired connection to download the needed drivers.  However
with 11.04 there is a change in this behavior.

$ lspci | grep Net | tee lspci.txt
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b3000000-b3003fff

There is a switch to turn on the wireless.  This does not work now.
Is there a way to get wireless working again?

--glenn

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 08:25, Jose Diaz <jose.dbardales at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 22:58 -0700, MICHAEL J MARCINIAK wrote:
>> 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:~$
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>> 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"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: Wireless Question
>> Message-ID: <BANLkTikg+sLYmt8R4y26Mwz9gub0hCGkqA at mail.gmail.com>
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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
>>
>>
>
> Hi Michael!
>
> I have a compaq presario and in the past every time I installed Ubuntu
> my wireless card will not work (I do have a physical button to turn my
> wireless card on just like yours) so what I have been doing is to
> connect my laptop to the network card and once you have Internet access
> and if you have installed Ubuntu Natty (11.04) you can go to the
> applications and look for a icon call "additional drivers" click it and
> you will see you Broadcom Wireless driver display. Once there make sure
> it is active (a green circle next to it). Then restart you computer and
> see if you are able to turn on you wireless card.
>
> Hope this help to resolve your problem.
>
>
>
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