Wireless with wicd on HP Pavilion dv5000 on Ubuntu

**dabrowski** · 03-26-2010

Still kind of stuck. Got wicd running, even started the service as described here suramya.com for this specific task.

Still, when I open wicd, no wireless networks found.

What's the next troubleshooting step?

**reed9** · 03-26-2010

We need more info. Please post the output of

Code:

lshw -C network
lsmod

**dabrowski** · 03-26-2010

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network:0             
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:21 memory:c0204000-c0205fff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0f:b0:c6:e6:43
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 ip=192.168.0.46 latency=128 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes
       resources: irq:22 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c020a400-c020a4ff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a5:6c:be:79
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3740  0 
nls_cp437               5372  0 
vfat                   10716  0 
fat                    51452  1 vfat
binfmt_misc             8356  1 
ppdev                   6688  0 
snd_atiixp_modem       11940  0 
snd_atiixp             15720  2 
snd_ac97_codec        101216  2 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
ac97_bus                1532  1 snd_ac97_codec
arc4                    1660  2 
ecb                     2524  2 
snd_pcm_oss            37920  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16028  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           2656  0 
snd_pcm                75296  4 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss            28576  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
snd_seq                50224  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
iptable_filter          3100  0 
snd_timer              22276  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
pcmcia                 36808  0 
ip_tables              11692  1 iptable_filter
snd_seq_device          6920  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
b43                   122136  0 
x_tables               16544  1 ip_tables
snd                    59204  15 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
sdhci_pci               7100  0 
mac80211              181236  1 b43
yenta_socket           24200  1 
soundcore               7264  1 snd
tifm_7xx1               5372  0 
sdhci                  17472  1 sdhci_pci
cfg80211               93052  2 b43,mac80211
joydev                 10272  0 
rsrc_nonstatic         11644  1 yenta_socket
i2c_piix4               9932  0 
tifm_core               7832  1 tifm_7xx1
snd_page_alloc          9156  3 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
led_class               4096  2 b43,sdhci
shpchp                 32272  0 
pcmcia_core            35792  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
k8temp                  4188  0 
psmouse                56180  0 
serio_raw               5280  0 
lp                      8964  0 
parport                35340  2 ppdev,lp
8139too                22620  0 
8139cp                 19260  0 
mii                     5212  2 8139too,8139cp
ohci1394               29900  0 
ieee1394               86596  1 ohci1394
ssb                    35300  1 b43
usb_storage            52544  0 
video                  19380  0 
output                  2780  1 video
radeon                636000  2 
ttm                    36212  1 radeon
drm                   159584  4 radeon,ttm
i2c_algo_bit            5760  1 radeon
ati_agp                 6760  0 
agpgart                34988  3 ttm,drm,ati_agp

**reed9** · 03-26-2010

You need firmware for your wireless card. I assume since you installed wicd you have a wired connection? If so do

Code:

sudo apt-get intall b43-fwcutter

**dabrowski** · 03-26-2010

Yep, I did that.

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 242 not upgraded.
ben@ben-laptop:~$

**reed9** · 03-26-2010

Post the output of

Code:

dmesg | grep firmware
iwconfig

Does this show local networks

Code:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

**dabrowski** · 03-27-2010

I appreciate the help.

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep firmware
[   18.652071] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
[   19.152384] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
[   19.381934] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
[   19.508827] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
[   19.744064] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
ben@ben-laptop:~$

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ben@ben-laptop:~$

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
[sudo] password for ben: 
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

ben@ben-laptop:~$

**jayd512** · 03-27-2010

Try this:

Code:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

**dabrowski** · 03-27-2010

I will. My update manager said I had a whole bunch of updates, so I thought I'd let that run first.

**dabrowski** · 03-27-2010

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[sudo] password for ben: 
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
ben@ben-laptop:~$

Code:

ben@ben-laptop:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

ben@ben-laptop:~$

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