Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

[WR6X]

Hello, I'm a newbie @ kubuntu. I'm using Kubuntu 7.10
It seems my Wlan drivers is not installed. (I think so, because my led from WLan is off)

I can get to the internet only by using a cable.

Asus does not provide a Linux driver for this. So how can I get it and install a driver? The only driver I have is a windows driver.


I've read several threads about this issue but nothing works.

When I open the knetworkmanager it shows no active device.
When I open the terminalkonsole and say iwlist scanning, this comes up:

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:F6:21:58:71
ESSID:"Sitecom"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=94/100
Extra: Last beacon: 92ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0E:2E:C0:25:CB
ESSID:"Default"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=23/100
Extra: Last beacon: 72ms ago
Cell 03 - Address: 00:15:E9:E4:50:4B
ESSID:"Default"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=5/100
Extra: Last beacon: 1156ms ago

Can someone help me out here?

Thanx in advance.

[opie]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

Your card seems to be functional and is eth1. If the problem was a lack of a driver you wouldn't be getting that far.

What is the output of

sudo ethtool eth1


Also see if you have better luck installing wlassistant through adept.

[Snowhog]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

How to Solve KnetworkManager Wireless Connection Problems may be of help.

[WR6X]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

@ opie:

sudo ethtool eth1 gives me: no data available
And wlassistant does not exist in my adept manager.

@snowhog:

Read it and tried it already. Doesn't help.

Also when i left click on the knetworkmanager (left from the time/date) a screen pops up and says: no active device

Also when i type "lspci" i can find my ethernet controller, but not my Wlan controller. With "lsusb" it doesn't show to.

Thanx for the replies guys.

[opie]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

I'm confused by that result. Complete lack of feedback on that command doesn't make sense to me given the iwlist output. Have you rebooted the machine since your last post?
If you do
iwlist scanning
again are you still getting the output for eth1 or has it changed from eth1 to something else?


Print the output of
lshw

With wlassistant - do you have the universe repository checked under adept menu -manage repositories-kubuntu software tab?

[WR6X]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

Yes I did reboot. Shut the rig down to be exact.

Here are the result of:

Iwlist scanning:

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:F6:21:58:71
ESSID:"Sitecom"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=100/100
Extra: Last beacon: 76ms ago
Cell 02 - Address: 00:0E:2E:C0:25:CB
ESSID:"Default"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Encryption keyff
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=100/100 Signal level=47/100
Extra: Last beacon: 84ms ago


It's still eth1, but now my own wireless connect is not shown.

Iwls gives me:

erik@laptop:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
laptop
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 1010MB
*-cpu
product: Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.4.10
size: 800MHz
width: 64 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow up ts fid vid ttp
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 128KB
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 1
size: 1MB
*-pci:0
description: Host bridge
product: nForce3 Host Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-amd64 module=amd64_agp
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: nForce3 LPC Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: f6
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: nForce3 SMBus
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.1
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: driver=nForce2_smbus latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=i2c_nforce2
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: nForce3 USB 1.1
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: a5
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=ohci_hcd
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: nForce3 USB 1.1
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: a5
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=ohci_hcd
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: nForce3 USB 2.0
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 2.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.2
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=ehci_hcd
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: nForce3 Audio
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2 module=snd_intel8x0
*-communication
description: Modem
product: nForce3 Audio
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 6.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:06.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: generic bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH Modem latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2 module=snd_intel8x0m
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: nForce3 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
version: a5
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=AMD_IDE latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=amd74xx
*-ide:0
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 66MHz
*-disk
product: SAMSUNG HM120JC
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
capacity: 111GB
*-ide:1
description: IDE Channel 1
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1
logical name: ide1
clock: 66MHz
*-cdrom
product: #&%$AUJ-840D
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@1.0
logical name: /dev/hdc
capabilities: packet
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: nForce3 PCI Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 13
serial: 00:11:d8:e5:95:b3
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=skge driverversion=1.11 firmware=N/A latency=64 maxlatency=31 mingnt=23 module=skge multicast=yes
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: RL5c476 II
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
version: b3
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=128 module=yenta_socket
resources: iomemory:b00603020-b0060301f
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.1
version: 08
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=64 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2 module=ohci1394
*-system:0
description: Generic system peripheral
product: R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.2
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.2
version: 17
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sdhci latency=64 module=sdhci
*-system:1 UNCLAIMED
description: System peripheral
product: R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
vendor: Ricoh Co Ltd
physical id: 1.3
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.3
version: 08
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: nForce3 AGP Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: vga bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8
*-pci:1
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 101
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:2
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 102
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:3
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 103
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
*-pci:4
description: Host bridge
product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 104
bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=k8temp module=k8temp
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: eth1
serial: 00:11:d8:c8:7a:fd
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g


With wlassistant I do have the universe repository checked. But there's no wlassistant.

I will try a new update by using my lan.

[opie]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

ok, still not getting much info.

Can you confirm whether this is a wl-150g?

If it's not can you give any information that you know about it?

[WR6X]

Re: Wlan Asus Laptop A4Ka

Yes it's a wl-150g, and it's working now!

Don't know what went wrong. But i did a clean, new install to provide new clean data. So I right clicked on knetworkmanager, and there was my wireless connection.

btw: I als found the wlassistent. but didn't need to use it after the new install.

But thanx a lot for your help.

Greetz Erik