Wireless Connection

Fri Jun 3 14:26:20 UTC 2011

glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
> 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....

 > 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
 >
 >
 >

	Hmmm, sorry, not really. Mine worked... If you check the drop-down 
menu, does it show wireless enabled or disabled?
	Or now try re-enabling the driver in Additional Drivers window?

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