help no option to connect to wireless

[reed9]

Whoops, didn't mean to be unclear. We also need the output of lspci

[pophead]

does that what i posted above look like the right thing

[reed9]

You posted the output of lsmod, which lists loaded drivers/modules. I don't see a wireless driver loading at all.

lspci will show us pci devices, including your wireless device, so we can figure out what needs to be done to get the driver. You may need to type in the full path to run it

/sbin/lspci

[htismaqe]

Can you put that output in CODE tags? It makes it much easier to read.

Just highlight the test and in the editing box, click on the # on the toolbar.

[htismaqe]

You posted the output of lsmod, which lists loaded drivers/modules. I don't see a wireless driver loading at all.

lspci will show us pci devices, including your wireless device, so we can figure out what needs to be done to get the driver. You may need to type in the full path to run it

/sbin/lspci

lspci and lsusb, just in case.

Alot of the new netbooks use internal wireless NICs that actually run on the USB bus rather than PCI.

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joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$

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joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04f2:b135 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
joe@TOSHIBA-User:~$

[htismaqe]

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

That's it.

The system is recognizing the device but not loading a driver.

[htismaqe]

I'm gonna have to defer to reed9 here. As he mentioned, ath_pci and ath_hal will interfere with ath5k or ath9k, and it appears that your chipset uses the ath5k kernel module.

[pophead]

thanks for all help people but i just managed to connect it wired and downloaded 154 updates and it now works thanks a lot for trying to help