[Solved]No Ethernet or Wireless to work on Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505.

donniezazen · 2011-12-14 19:20:43

The Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505 wiki says ethernet should work out of box. It is not. I am trying to install wireless drivers. I checked fw-cutter during installation but i guess i have to install broadcom-wl along with it. Make command is not found (probably not installed) How can get ethernet connection to work?

Thanks.

Last edited by donniezazen (2011-12-23 04:04:52)

Gusar · 2011-12-14 19:33:17

We need more info about what kind of hardware is in that thing. So post the output of lscpi -nn

donniezazen · 2011-12-14 19:51:23

Gusar wrote:

We need more info about what kind of hardware is in that thing. So post the output of lscpi -nn

Sorry about that.

lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
Ethernet - Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c]
Network - Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311]

lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] [10de:01d7] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)

Gusar · 2011-12-15 22:36:24

Ok, ethernet really should work out-of-the-box using the b44 driver. And the wireless card should work after installing b43-firmware from AUR.

Post the outout of lspci -k and also the output of dmesg. There's for sure something about the ethernet card in there.

donniezazen · 2011-12-16 19:14:45

Gusar wrote:

Ok, ethernet really should work out-of-the-box using the b44 driver. And the wireless card should work after installing b43-firmware from AUR.
Post the outout of lspci -k and also the output of dmesg. There's for sure something about the ethernet card in there.

Ethernet never works on any of my machines (Thinkpad T420 & Dell Inspiron 6400\E1505) out of the box.

dmesg long

http://pastebin.com/fmdvdvGB

lspci -k

http://pastebin.com/7bU3CQd9

Since i have no internet and package to build anything i am unable to do anything. Is their a package that i can install during installation to get it working (like i install a single package iw for Thinkpad T420)? Is fw-cutter not sufficient to get it working?

Thanks for your help.

Gusar · 2011-12-16 19:44:26

fw-cutter cuts, but it needs something where it will cut from. Check the PKGBUILD in AUR which file it downloads and fetch it from another machine where you do have internet. That should take care of wireless.

For wired, no idea. There are no errors in your dmesg, it shows b44 loading fine. So it should work. How exactly are you connecting? Which commands are you using for that and what is their output?

donniezazen · 2011-12-16 23:15:24

Gusar wrote:

fw-cutter cuts, but it needs something where it will cut from. Check the PKGBUILD in AUR which file it downloads and fetch it from another machine where you do have internet. That should take care of wireless.
For wired, no idea. There are no errors in your dmesg, it shows b44 loading fine. So it should work. How exactly are you connecting? Which commands are you using for that and what is their output?

Thanks,

I have wireless card enabled. I was in hurry so couldn't try connecting to my access point. I will do that tonight.

I will try Ethernet again. I did not run any commands to enable or do anything with Ethernet. I connected the Ethernet cable and tried ping google.com and it would not exchange/transfer packets. I can't remember the output.

Is wpa_supplicant the best way to run wireless on gui-less arch setup?

Last edited by donniezazen (2011-12-16 23:16:16)

Gusar · 2011-12-17 00:25:56

Err, wired won't just magically work, it needs to be configured. You need to make a connection before you try to ping stuff.

The best way to run wireless, and wired too for that matter, is netcfg. Plain wpa_supplicant works too, but netcfg is more cool

donniezazen · 2011-12-17 00:52:30

Gusar wrote:

Err, wired won't just magically work, it needs to be configured. You need to make a connection before you try to ping stuff.
The best way to run wireless, and wired too for that matter, is netcfg. Plain wpa_supplicant works too, but netcfg is more cool

Sorry, it's a genuine mistake. I have recently started using Arch and am learning new things every day. I come from Ubuntu where ethernet works be default.

Thanks, The information will checkout the netcfg.

Last edited by donniezazen (2011-12-17 00:53:28)

Trilby · 2011-12-17 00:58:58

wicd is another way to go if netcfg doesn't fit right.

I've never used netcfg so I can't compare, but wicd has worked wonderfully for me.

donniezazen · 2011-12-17 01:43:59

Trilby wrote:

wicd is another way to go if netcfg doesn't fit right.
I've never used netcfg so I can't compare, but wicd has worked wonderfully for me.

I have used the gui version of wicd in Ubuntu. I am going to run this Arch as headless server with XBMC front-end. Let's see what works best.

EDIT 1: WIFI working flawlessly with wpa_supplicant. Thanks.

EDIT 2: Both wifi and ethernet is working. I have setup netcfg which is sweet and easy.

Thanks for all your help.

Last edited by donniezazen (2011-12-17 07:19:33)

donniezazen · 2011-12-17 11:17:14

I am posting this for future reference.

Ethernet
modprobe b44
dhcpcd

Wifi With Internet
Install b43-fwcutter for repository and b43-firmware from AUR

Wifi Without Internet
 Follow this http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above

Thanks.

donniezazen · 2011-12-21 05:51:03

UPDATE:-Wicd is hell of a way to manage network connection on headless Arch.

ewaller · 2011-12-21 05:59:53

Two more things:

1. Welcome to Arch.
2. If you would, edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread title.

Thanks

donniezazen · 2011-12-23 04:05:53

ewaller wrote:

Two more things:
1. Welcome to Arch.
2. If you would, edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread title.
Thanks

Done. Thanks.

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[Solved]No Ethernet or Wireless to work on Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505.

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