Need a utility

[dave52355]

I know enough to be dangerous. My Kubuntu setup worked flawlessly till last night. I was messing with a print server trying to get it going and I changed something. Now my wireless no longer works.

Looking for a utility that will look at my messed up settings and automagically repair them or at least show me the problem.

Thanks

[sithlord48]

Re: Need a utility

what version are you running ?
you should be able to find out some info by typing this in to the command line

sudo lshw

look for the section for network-1 (usually your wifi might be diffrent # depending on your setup)
you should see something like this
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00xxxxx
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci ip=10.20.51.125 latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
in here you want to make sure that there is a driver assoited with the device, and a module.

then check to make sure the module is running

lsmod

now if its not running (ie in the output of lsmod) you can manually start it by typing this

sudo modprobe <modulename>

if that don't work for you post your lshw output about your wifi card and that might show another problem .

[dave52355]

Re: Need a utility

Thank you

Results of lshw:

*-network
     description: Wireless interface
     product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
     vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
     physical id: 1
     bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
     logical name: wlan1
     version: 03
     serial: 00:40:f4:e0:04:ff
     width: 32 bits
     clock: 66MHz
     capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
     configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+mrv8000c driverversion=1.52+Marvell,09/17/2004,3.1.0.19 latency=64 link=no module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

and lsmod:

Module         Size Used by
ndiswrapper      192920 0
ipv6         267780 8
af_packet       23812 2
binfmt_misc      12808 1
rfcomm         41744 2
l2cap         25728 13 rfcomm
bluetooth       61156 4 rfcomm,l2cap
savage         33920 2
drm          82452 3 savage
uinput         10240 0
thinkpad_acpi     51836 0
nvram          9992 1 thinkpad_acpi
ppdev         10372 0
speedstep_ich      6288 0
speedstep_lib      6532 1 speedstep_ich
cpufreq_stats      7104 0
cpufreq_powersave    2688 0
cpufreq_conservative   8712 0
cpufreq_ondemand    9740 1
freq_table       5536 3 speedstep_ich,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_userspace    5284 0
bay           6912 0
dock          11280 1 bay
container        5632 0
sbs          15112 0
sbshc          7680 1 sbs
iptable_filter     3840 0
ip_tables       14820 1 iptable_filter
x_tables        16132 1 ip_tables
aes_i586        33536 0
dm_crypt        15364 0
dm_mod         62660 1 dm_crypt
lp           12324 0
pcmcia         40876 0
battery        14212 0
ac           6916 0
snd_intel8x0      35356 1
snd_ac97_codec    101028 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus        3072 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss      42144 0
snd_mixer_oss     17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
irtty_sir        9728 0
sir_dev        17412 1 irtty_sir
snd_pcm        78596 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
irda         203068 2 irtty_sir,sir_dev
crc_ccitt        3072 1 irda
evdev         13056 6
video         19856 0
output         4736 1 video
snd_seq_dummy      4868 0
parport_pc       36260 1
parport        37832 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
psmouse        40336 0
serio_raw        7940 0
yenta_socket      27276 3
rsrc_nonstatic     13696 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core      40596 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_seq_oss      35584 0
snd_seq_midi      9376 0
snd_rawmidi      25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event   8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq        54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
button         9232 0
snd_timer       24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device     9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd          56996 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore        8800 1 snd
snd_page_alloc     11400 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp       25492 1
agpgart        34760 2 drm,intel_agp
shpchp         34452 0
pci_hotplug      30880 1 shpchp
iTCO_wdt        13092 0
iTCO_vendor_support   4868 1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr         4224 0
ext3         136840 1
jbd          48404 1 ext3
mbcache         9600 1 ext3
sg           36880 0
sr_mod         17956 0
cdrom         37408 1 sr_mod
sd_mod         30720 3
ata_generic       8324 0
floppy         59588 0
ata_piix        19588 2
pata_acpi        8320 0
e100          37388 0
mii           6400 1 e100
libata        159344 3 ata_generic,ata_piix,pata_acpi
scsi_mod       151436 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
uhci_hcd        27024 0
usbcore        146412 3 ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd
thermal        16796 1
processor       37384 2 thermal
fan           5636 1
fbcon         42912 0
tileblit        3456 1 fbcon
font          9472 1 fbcon
bitblit         6784 1 fbcon
softcursor       3072 1 bitblit
fuse          50708 1

kubuntu version: 8.10 I think

[sithlord48]

Re: Need a utility

yea it shows you having ndiswrapper as your driver. have you tried reinstalling ndiswrapper.