Wireless problem

[tom8195]

Hi Folks

My colleague at work loaded Ubuntu 9.04 yesterday on my Toshiba Sattelite Pro A200 at home. I can connect to the internet with the cable, but not by wireless. Can anyone help? I am in Tunisia (N.Africa) and work during the daytime. Thanks.

I read the message in this forum posted by Paul on getting started with setting up a wireless card. So I went to the terminal and have the message below to share. I also note that the wireless card is both unclaimed and disabled.

Tom

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 0c)
Kernel modules: intelfb
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a03] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2843] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 03)
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2829] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 03)
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k
0c:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller [104c:8039]
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
0c:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller [104c:803a]
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394
0c:04.2 Mass storage controller [0180]: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) [104c:803b]
Kernel driver in use: tifm_7xx1
Kernel modules: tifm_7xx1
0c:04.3 SD Host controller [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller [104c:803c]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

[reed9]

Howdy.

Please post the output of lsmod as well.

It looks like you may have two different drivers loading, which interfere with each other. You want to blacklist ath_hal and ath_pci, and load only ath5k.

More info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/Atheros

[waterhead]

Welcome to Linux Forums, tom8195!

I reduced the font size in your post, as it is against the forum rules to post that way, when it really isn't necessary. Please read and abide by the forum rules.

We also need all of the information that I explained about in my wireless How-To thread. It is needed to properly help you.

[tom8195]

Can you tell me what these drivers are ? ath_hal and ath_pci

[reed9]

ath_hal and ath_pci are part of the madwifi project's drivers for atheros chipsets. They are being phased out in favor of ath5k and ath9k.

[tom8195]

Thanks. Apologies. I havent' read the rules yet.

[tom8195]

I did the following commands:

I got 15 pages of text, but the forum said I included 17 images and was only allowed 4. I did a search for the word img to find if there were tags, but found none. I am using Ubuntu for the second day now so am quite useless. What do you suggest? I can\t attach the file, can i?

It is now 1030PM and must go to bed.

best

tom

[waterhead]

15 pages? You must have included the entire dmesg output.

Just run the script that I made available in that thread. When you post it, surround it in "code" tags, as I also explained in that thread.

[waterhead]

I got 15 pages of text, but the forum said I included 17 images and was only allowed 4.

If you don't post with "code tags" surrounding the text, it will misinterpret some text as emoticons or smilies. You then have to check the box below the message input box labeled "Disable smilies in text"

A smiley is an image and counted against the limit.

[tom8195]

Probably the error causing the problem is listed below. What do you think?

[ 17.485310] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 17.485315] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 17.514688] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 19.104200] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 20.499104] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 20.506074] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 20.506081] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 20.506223] pci 0000:00:02.0: irq 2296 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 20.506340] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0
[ 20.509222] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
[ 22.609233] r8169: eth0: link down
[ 22.609465] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 1143.797015] r8169: eth0: link up
[ 1143.797236] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 1154.336027] eth0: no IPv6 routers present