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#1 2010-08-31 23:27:24

Ravenman
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Troubleshooting Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006

Hi to everyone:

I have installed Arch Linux in one Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006, and I can't see the wireless card. yikes

[root@mylaptop ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

[root@mylaptop ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:AA:BB:11:22:CC  
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:446134 (435.6 Kb)  TX bytes:7967 (7.7 Kb)
          Interrupt:45 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I searched information about modules and the system shows this:

[root@mylaptop ~]# lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
        Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff44
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
01:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
        Kernel modules: sdhci-pci
01:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
01:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e852 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8181
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086

What can I do ? neutral

Last edited by Ravenman (2010-08-31 23:28:49)

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#2 2010-08-31 23:55:14

lagagnon
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Re: Troubleshooting Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006

The hardware wireless chip is not registering with lspci, so I suspect it is turned off. On the Toshiba's there is usually a small wireless ON/OFF switch on the thin front face of the unit. Check that - there should also be a little light that shows the wireless unit has been enabled.If that does not work make sure the wireless is enabled in your BIOS.


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#3 2010-09-01 18:11:30

Ravenman
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Re: Troubleshooting Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006

Hi to everyone:

First, the wireless nic was active, and worked on M$-Window$. But the last kernel (2.6.35) doesn't have built-in support for this nic. yikes

So, therefore we must compile the driver. I downloaded the driver for RTL8192SE from Realtek.

After I extracted the file and joined to the folder:

[root@mylaptop ~]#tar xvf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010.tar.gz
[root@mylaptop ~]#cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010

I ran the final process:

[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]#make && make install

I loaded and listed the module and the device:

[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]# modprobe r8192se_pci
[root@mylaptop ~]# lsmod | grep r8192se_pci
r8192se_pci           499068  0 
[root@mylaptop ~]# 
[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]# lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
        Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff44
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
01:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
        Kernel modules: sdhci-pci
01:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
01:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e852 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8181
        Kernel driver in use: rtl819xSE
        Kernel modules: r8192se_pci
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff40
        Kernel driver in use: r8169
        Kernel modules: r8169
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086

I activated and listed the nic:

[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:AA:BB:11:22:CC  
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2560178 (2.4 Mb)  TX bytes:1074653 (1.0 Mb)
          Interrupt:45 Base address:0xc000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:AA:BB:11:22:33  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:ffffc90000078000-ffffc90000078100 
[root@mylaptop rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0017.0705.2010]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     802.11bgn  Nickname:"rtl8191SEVA2"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.457 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:300 Mb/s   
          Retry:on   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=-100 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And my wireless nic is working on Arch Linux right now big_smile

Last edited by Ravenman (2010-09-01 18:12:21)

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#4 2010-09-02 00:38:12

Ravenman
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Registered: 2009-07-03
Posts: 236

Re: Troubleshooting Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006

Hi to everyone:

I have installed the fnfx package from AUR for the special keys, but it doesn't works. sad

When I launch the fnfx command, the system shows this:

[user@mylaptop ~]$ fnfx
FnFX Client v0.3 (c) 2003, 2004 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@nouse.net>

fatal error: Failed to get id of shared memory segment. Please make sure that the daemon 'fnfxd' is running.

[user@mylaptop ~]$

I tried search and launch the daemon but the system shows this:

[user@mylaptop ~]$ whereis fnfxd
fnfxd: /usr/sbin/fnfxd

[user@mylaptop ~]$   
[root@mylaptop sbin]# fnfxd 
FnFX Daemon v0.3 (c) 2003, 2004 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@nouse.net>

fatal error: Could open /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys.

Please make sure that your kernel has enabled the Toshiba option in the ACPI section.
For more information read the documentation and/or http://fnfx.sf.net/index.php?section=doc#kernel.

[root@mylaptop sbin]# 

Someone else with the same problem ... anyone knows how to fix it? neutral

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#5 2010-09-04 20:09:57

lagagnon
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Re: Troubleshooting Toshiba Satellite U505-S2006

I understand fnfx only works with certain older version of Toshiba BIOS's. Therefore, if you want special function keys to work you might have to resort to other methods, such as mapping them yourself and how you do this depends on your window manager.


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