Wireless isssue. Yes, another wireless thread.

**severed** · 11-22-2009

Hi. Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1525. I have a direct ethernet connection, but my wireless doesn't wanna work.

I've researched pretty thoroughly, installed ndiswrapper, enabled my driver for the wireless card, and disabled the generic driver in case there might be a conflict.

If it helps, the led light that indicates my wireless is working was not on initially, but after my smarter (more-tech savvy) buddy did some terminal stuff it came on.

My wireless card is a Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN mini-card.

I am new to the OS, and I would love to get off the Windows teat entirely, but no wireless would be a dealbreaker.

Thanks in advance!

**dk92123** · 11-22-2009

I have the same computer & same wifi adapter and it works perfectly with many distributions including Ubuntu.

Your savvy buddy might have disabled the Network Manager, if so you can either re-enable it and go with the GUI Network Mgr. (easiest) -or- go command line:

ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic#Wireless

Network Manager
Network Manager has been redesigned for Ubuntu and now works quite well. You should not require other network managers, and, in fact, more than one network manager can cause conflicts.

It can be accessed from the tray icon.

Manual configuration from the command-line

3 steps for WEP:

Code:

sudo iwconfig eth[N] essid [SSID]
sudo iwconfig eth[N] key restricted s:[PASSWORD]
sudo dhclient

WPA is more complicated:

Code:

su
mkdir /etc/wpa_supplicant
cd /etc/wpa_supplicant
echo network = { > wpa_supplicant.conf
echo ssid="SSID" >> wpa_supplicant.conf
echo key_mgmt=WPA-PSK >> wpa_supplicant.conf
echo psk="PRESHAREDKEY" >> wpa_supplicant.conf
echo } >> wpa_supplicant.conf
cd /etc/network
vim interfaces

Now add after "auto eth[N] ..." & "iface eth[N] .." (press 'i'):

Code:

wpa-driver wext # or whatever driver your network card needs
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Save the file ('Esc', ':x', 'Enter') and restart your system.

**severed** · 11-22-2009

Do i perform all three of these in sequence?

Or just choose one of them?

**dk92123** · 11-23-2009

Choose 1....
Option #1:
You might want to just enable your network manager and connect using the GUI (Graphical User Interface)

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=392960
linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-do-i-start-networkmanager-485810/
Option#2
The 'Code' boxes are used in the terminal (command line) and if you decide to use this, you will likely be using WPA/WPA2 not WEP so, everything below "WPA is more complicated"

ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic#Wireless

**reed9** · 11-23-2009

The Dell Dell Wireless 1395 uses a broadcom chipset. There are a couple of possible drivers for this card, the opensource b43 or the mixed/proprietary broadcom-wl. Not sure which one this card needs, but you definitely do not need ndiswrapper. Any of the 3 possible modules, b43, wl, or ndiswrapper will conflict with each other.

Please post the output of

Code:

lspci -v
lsmod
iwconfig
dmesg | grep wlan
dmesg | grep firmware
dmesg | grep eth1

**severed** · 11-23-2009

lspci -v

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
	Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
	Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	I/O ports at 6f20 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
	I/O ports at 6f00 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
	Memory at fed1c400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
	Memory at fe9fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
	Memory behind bridge: fe800000-fe8fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
	Memory behind bridge: fe700000-fe7fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
	Memory behind bridge: fe400000-fe6fffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f01fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
	Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	I/O ports at 6f80 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
	I/O ports at 6f60 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
	I/O ports at 6f40 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
	Memory at fed1c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2) (prog-if 01)
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
	Memory behind bridge: fe300000-fe3fffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
	I/O ports at 6fa0 [size=16]
	Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
	I/O ports at 6eb0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 6eb8 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 6ec0 [size=8]
	I/O ports at 6ec8 [size=4]
	I/O ports at 6ee0 [size=32]
	Memory at fe9fb800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
	Memory at fe9fb700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]
	Kernel modules: i2c-i801

02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 10)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
	Memory at fe3ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
	Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

02:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) (prog-if 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
	Memory at fe3ff500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
	Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	Memory at fe3ff600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

02:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
	Memory at fe3ff700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
	Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	I/O ports at de00 [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: sky2
	Kernel modules: sky2

0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Device 000b
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at fe7fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: wl
	Kernel modules: wl, ssb

lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc             8356  1 
ppdev                   6688  0 
snd_hda_codec_idt      59844  1 
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi    12860  1 
snd_hda_intel          26920  2 
snd_hda_codec          75708  3 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               7200  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            37920  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16028  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                75296  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
joydev                 10272  0 
lib80211_crypt_tkip     8636  0 
snd_seq_dummy           2656  0 
snd_seq_oss            28576  0 
wl                   1272936  0 
snd_seq_midi            6432  0 
snd_rawmidi            22208  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      6940  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
dell_wmi                2564  0 
snd_seq                50224  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              22276  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6920  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    59204  17 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7264  1 snd
iptable_filter          3100  0 
sdhci_pci               7100  0 
sdhci                  17472  1 sdhci_pci
uvcvideo               59080  0 
videodev               36736  1 uvcvideo
dell_laptop             8128  0 
ip_tables              11692  1 iptable_filter
lp                      8964  0 
x_tables               16544  1 ip_tables
v4l1_compat            14496  2 uvcvideo,videodev
led_class               4096  1 sdhci
dcdbas                  7292  1 dell_laptop
psmouse                56180  0 
serio_raw               5280  0 
snd_page_alloc          9156  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lib80211                6432  2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
parport                35340  2 ppdev,lp
fbcon                  36640  72 
tileblit                2460  1 fbcon
font                    8124  1 fbcon
bitblit                 5372  1 fbcon
softcursor              1756  1 bitblit
ohci1394               29900  0 
usb_storage            52544  1 
ieee1394               86596  1 ohci1394
sky2                   46560  0 
i915                  221064  4 
drm                   159584  4 i915
i2c_algo_bit            5760  1 i915
intel_agp              27484  2 i915
agpgart                34988  2 drm,intel_agp
video                  19380  1 i915
output                  2780  1 video

iwconfig

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11  Nickname:""
          Access Point: Not-Associated

I will post the rest in another post.

**reed9** · 11-23-2009

Don't worry about the rest. Unusually, your wireless interface is being called eth2. Usually with the wl driver, it's eth1. But that shouldn't matter.

Everything seems ok here. The wl driver is loading. Ndiswrapper and b43 are not, which is correct.

What is the output of

Code:

dmesg | grep wl
dmesg | grep eth2

Does

Code:

sudo iwlist eth2 scan

return any networks?

**severed** · 11-23-2009

Well, I know this is idiotic, but I don't know how to make the "|" character.

**DaGoomba** · 11-23-2009

It's right below the backspace button.(shift + \ = |)

**severed** · 11-23-2009

dmesg | grep wl

Code:

[    7.495504] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[    7.497702] wl 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    7.497719] wl 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64

dmesg | grep eth2

Code:

 [    7.525954] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2
[   36.220051] eth2: no IPv6 routers present

scan returned this

Code:

eth2      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:DF:57:58:41
                    ESSID:"Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO_575841"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality:2/5  Signal level:-75 dBm  Noise level:-92 dBm
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              18 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:13:10:7F:B9:6F
                    ESSID:"linksys"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:5/5  Signal level:-21 dBm  Noise level:-93 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:18:F8:B8:88:C1
                    ESSID:"Gokce01"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-84 dBm  Noise level:-93 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
          Cell 04 - Address: 00:16:B6:D6:93:C9
                    ESSID:"PSUgirls"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality:0/5  Signal level:-92 dBm  Noise level:-93 dBm
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
          Cell 05 - Address: 00:1F:33:48:0B:DA
                    ESSID:"Hookers and Buttpirates"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality:1/5  Signal level:-87 dBm  Noise level:-91 dBm
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s

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