Wireless Connection

Fri Jun 3 14:52:29 UTC 2011

The Enable Wireless is greyed out.  Still cannot start the wireless
adapter (led is amber).  I can connect via wire.
When I activated the Broadcom STA wireless driver and restarted the server,
then there was little change: cannot start the wireless.

--glenn

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 09:26, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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