Need help with wireless connection?

[vinnywright]

install inxi

sudo apt-get install inxi

then do in a terminal

inxi -n

you will get output like this

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ inxi -n
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 2c:27:d7:cf:df:91
           Card-2: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: c0:f8:da:a8:39:5e

do your best to copy and paste it hear ,,,,,,,,take your time.

this will show if your network is up (but waiting for a connection) and if their is a kernel driver in use/associated with the device .

lspci -v would show us as well ,,,,BUT , YOU would half to sift through all the output to find the info ,,,,,I think this will be simpler for you.

?where in this thread did we get the Idea their was no dirver for the device or that it wasn't working?

VINNY

[Shabakthanai]

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ inxi -n
Network: Card-1: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:1e:65:23:99:08
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:1e:33:d1:e8:93
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$

The other reply you made asked what I did to try to fix it. I did not know how, googled, then contacted my ISP and Router Mfg. neither support Linux. I read all the posts I could find about it, but could not understand what was posted. Then I contacted our forum for help.

install inxi

sudo apt-get install inxi

then do in a terminal

inxi -n

you will get output like this

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ inxi -n
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 2c:27:d7:cf:df:91
           Card-2: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: c0:f8:da:a8:39:5e

do your best to copy and paste it hear ,,,,,,,,take your time.

this will show if your network is up (but waiting for a connection) and if their is a kernel driver in use/associated with the device .

lspci -v would show us as well ,,,,BUT , YOU would half to sift through all the output to find the info ,,,,,I think this will be simpler for you.

?where in this thread did we get the Idea their was no dirver for the device or that it wasn't working?

VINNY

[Shabakthanai]

steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
04:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
04:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller] (rev 01)
04:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 01)
steven@steven-Yeshuah:~$


This time it allowed me to copy and paste the data. Confusing.

[Teunis]

Sorry for my repeated question in post #15, while I typed it you posted #14 which answered the original question.

[Shabakthanai]

That's quite OK, I am anxious to have this problem fixed; you are trying to help; I am grateful. I have been computing long enough to probably be able to fix a problem like this without help, but I really am not smart enough to join you guys in expertise. I really would enjoy being more like you; I like to help others too, and I am old and cannot work anymore, so I have the time, just not the electrons. You guys are so good to me and have such patience. I am glad you believe me and don't think I am just lazy. I am not. Wow, if I could ferret out my own solutions I would be so happy, I could eat a bug. I appreciate you, who contribute your expertise so much.

Sorry for my repeated question in post #15, while I typed it you posted #14 which answered the original question.

[vinnywright]

OK looks good .......do a

iwlist scan

post the output.

VINNY

[Shabakthanai]

steven@Yeshuah-desktop:~$ iwlist scan
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

OK looks good .......do a

iwlist scan

post the output.

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Download this compressed tar file:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/...8.83.5.1-1.tgz
Use Ark to uncompress it (all files including subdir) and then copy the file
sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware
Then you can do
modprobe iwlwifi
That should turn your wifi lamp on and the network-manager should start listing access points.

Or, you can reboot and let the boot load figure out that it needs to load iwlwifi.

[Shabakthanai]

steven@Yeshuah-desktop:~$ sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware
[sudo] password for steven:
cp: cannot stat ‘iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode’: No such file or directory
steven@Yeshuah-desktop:~$

Apparently I did something wrong. I believe I already downloaded that package. When I clicked on the link, the package opened immediately without downloading at all. I clicked on "Extract" then enter the command int he shell. What's above is what came out. When I extracted the file, it said the document already existed; I selected "Overwrite on each" until the process completed. I have never felt I understood the "Ark" extraction process.

Thanks for coming to the rescue.

Download this compressed tar file:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/...8.83.5.1-1.tgz
Use Ark to uncompress it (all files including subdir) and then copy the file
sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware
Then you can do
modprobe iwlwifi
That should turn your wifi lamp on and the network-manager should start listing access points.

Or, you can reboot and let the boot load figure out that it needs to load iwlwifi.

[GreyGeek]

Either you did not untar the tgz file correctly, OR, you did not change to the directory that contains the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode file.

You could supply a path to the file, but explaining that would be as difficult as having you change to the directly. So, open Dolphin, navigate to the directory that you created when you untarred the tgz file. Then press F4. That will open a console within Dolphin which will be inside the directory where the file is located. In that Dolphin terminal box issue the command
sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware

[Shabakthanai]

I am sure I screwed up, but don't really know how to open a tgz file correctly. When I tried, I selected "Extract"; when it talked about naming a file, I didn't know what to name it or where to put it, but there was a file mentioned already, and although it looked grayed out, I just pressed enter, thinking that that would produce the preselected file. Next I attempted your code recommendation in the konsole. Now, I don't have an idea the name of that file, so I don't know how to find it, in case that was a proper process. By the way, when I clicked on what I thought was a preselected file, the computer said the file already existed and I copied-over, I think, 3 files before the process completed. Sorry to be wasting so much of your time, but will you help me either find that file or explain how to successfully open the tgz file, and tell me where to put it.

Either you did not untar the tgz file correctly, OR, you did not change to the directory that contains the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode file.

You could supply a path to the file, but explaining that would be as difficult as having you change to the directly. So, open Dolphin, navigate to the directory that you created when you untarred the tgz file. Then press F4. That will open a console within Dolphin which will be inside the directory where the file is located. In that Dolphin terminal box issue the command
sudo cp iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware

[GreyGeek]

You don't have to name it.


and

Now, use Dolphin to open the directory created by Ark when it untarred the folder and its files.

[Shabakthanai]

Iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz-Ark
File Action Settings Help
New Open Add File Add Folder Xdelete Extract Preview

Name Size Owner Group

iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1 3files johannes johannes
LICENSE.iwlwifi-5000-ucode 2.0KiB johannes johannes
README.1iwlwifi-5000-ucode 4.8KiB johannes johannes
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode 332.7KiB johannes johannes

This is so embarrassing. When I then go to Dolphin/Documents and select the 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1, I am asked to choose the application to open it. I then choose 'Ark' again and am provided a list of compression types. There is no tgz selection, but there is a Gzip and a Tar archive (gzip-compressed). I chose the Tar archive (gzip-compressed), because it was closest to the tgz identifier.

I got this:

Error Opening Archive – Ark

Loading the Archive........


failed with the following error: Could not open the archive.......


libarchive cannot handle it.

Gzip failed to open the folder too.

You don't have to name it.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]5167[/ATTACH]
and
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5168[/ATTACH]
Now, use Dolphin to open the directory created by Ark when it untarred the folder and its files.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5169[/ATTACH]

[Shabakthanai]

My system seems to increase in problems with existing problems unreasonably difficult to repair. As a result, I am installing an upgrade to Kubuntu 14.10 right now. Thanks for your efforts to help.

[mbohets]

Don't use Kubuntu 14.10 yet, it is not officially released yet and in alpha development state, which means it is bound to be buggy and you will encounter problems.

Download a fresh iso image of 14.04, do an integrity check on it and then make a clean install with it.