Wireless Connection

Thu Jun 2 23:47:10 UTC 2011

Thanks for your suggestion.  I did the following:

1. Removed the Broadcom driver via Additional hardware drivers app.
2. Rebooted.
3. Installed the following drivers from Synaptic:
firmware-b43-installer
b43-fwcutter
4. disconnected wired lan

Result: Unable to connect via wireless.  The switch for wireless
adapter does not light up the led.
Now the lshw -C network shows
*-network DISABLED
for the wireless wlan0
config: ... driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=n/a ...

other ideas?

--glenn

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 13:18, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> (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:~$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
...
>>
>> 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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