Wireless Connection

Thu Jun 2 18:18:51 UTC 2011

(Corrected posting order.. see bottom...)

glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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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.
 > 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
 >

	I just updated my Dell Latitude D830, Broadcom BCM4311 wireless, from 
10.10 to 11.04 this morning. Wireles didn't work after upgrade, with the 
wifi switch on, the LED did not light. Additional Drivers showed the 
Broadcom STA driver in use.
	Scroogle searching brought me to this page:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/155040

Which ahd the fix for me. In short:
1. Go into Additional Drivers and disable the Broadcom STA driver.
2. Reboot (not sure why, may not be necessary)
3. Go into Synaptic Package Manager, search for b43.
4. Install firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter.
5. Enjoy wireless access.

As usual, YMMV....

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