Toshiba Satellite R15 Tablet laptop net broken (wired & wifi)...

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 03:05:03

Followed the wiki info on how to setup Arch for this laptop and the Xorg information broke X (but just deleting xorg.conf took care of that)... I'm under the impression that the info on the wiki is just outdated due to the changes within Arch as a whole.

Before I installed and attempted to configure ipw2200 for my wifi card on this laptop, wired net worked fine. After following the wiki for this laptop, wired connection is now broken.

Wicd says: Wired Network: Connection Failed: Unable to Get IP Address.

- disabling Wicd in rc.conf and enabling network & dhcpcd gets me back online wired (also removed ipw2200 from MODULES).
- adding ipw2200 back to MODULES kills wired connection (never had wireless)
- wicd without ipw2200 in MODULES works wired, but still have no wireless...

likely will have to go with that for now. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Last edited by CPUnltd (2012-05-02 03:05:42)

ewaller · 2012-05-02 04:38:40

As a sanity check. could you please post the output of ip addr ??
Maybe (being very optimistic here) the output of iwconfig ??

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 05:56:02

would you like these outputs with the module loaded from boot or not? When I load it from boot, I lose all net functionality...

ewaller · 2012-05-02 05:58:40

I guess not loaded.

edit: I need to call it a night. I'll pick this back up in the morning (GMT-7)

Last edited by ewaller (2012-05-02 06:01:30)

tomk · 2012-05-02 06:13:45

If you're using the wired connection and you modprobe ipw2200, what happens?

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 06:46:48

Changed a few variables for security reasons (because I'm paranoid )

ip addr

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 XXXX::212:f0ff:XXXX:2741/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:XX:7b:XX:d6:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key: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

Gcool · 2012-05-02 07:08:28

Check if your interface names are not getting swapped around during various boots. See this wiki article for more info.

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 07:16:20

that may be my issue, cause I originally remember eth0 being where the wired connection was going through... will check this article and see if it helps...

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 07:33:39

setting udev rules failed... says something about unknown key during boot, but it goes by too fast to tell... One thing I do notice is that the net won't work when the wifi card is set to eth0... and the udev rules method fails to properly function, so I need another way to keep the wired connection on eth0...

Gcool · 2012-05-02 07:41:25

You should be able to see the exact message in /var/log/boot

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 08:06:44

ok, fixed a syntax error of my own doing with the udev rule, so now eth0 is always eth0 and my wired connection works whether the ipw2200 module is loaded or not, but I still have no wifi and I'm not sure why... just to eliminate the possibility, I'm going to unplug the wired connection and do another scan to see if any networks are visible...

CPUnltd · 2012-05-02 10:38:23

ok, almost there... figured out what was missing for the wifi to be recognized (ran iwlist wlan0 scan as root and got hits on local networks, so I checked wicds preferences and saw that the box for the listing of "wireless card" was empty, so I put "wlan0" and rescanned... found networks!!! now my last hurdle is actually getting the networks to CONNECT! it shows in the list for settings (per network connection) that it supports wpa, but when I add my password for my network and save, the dialog box for wicd hangs... it refuses to save the settings... how do I troubleshoot THIS?

ewaller · 2012-05-02 13:20:43

It is kind of as I thought... The wireless was there, it was just hiding

Now we need to know about your network. Do you own it? Is it Open? If not, is it WEP, WPA, or WPA2. Do you want to configure it by hand? Or do you want to use tools like wicd, NetworkManager?

CPUnltd · 2012-05-03 00:10:30

I own my network, it is hidden, has wpa2 personal, and is mac filtered... I'd like wicd to work, as it's what I'm used to and like most...

ewaller · 2012-05-03 01:58:58

CPUnltd wrote:

I own my network, it is hidden, has wpa2 personal, and is mac filtered... I'd like wicd to work, as it's what I'm used to and like most...

Should all work. I assume wicd is in your DAEMONS array. WEP2 requires wpa_suplicant. You have not mentioned whether that was installed.

Also, I don't use MAC filtering. Ensure your router is letting you in.

CPUnltd · 2012-05-03 06:10:21

wicd is in the DAEMONS array, wpa_supplicant is installed router should be letting me in, as I've made sure the mac address is the right one (especially since I had to manually force a configuration on them both... Wicd just refuses to save my settings... it hangs when I try to save changes... but seems to cancel just fine... I'm wondering if there's a permissions issue with the folder... not sure exactly where that folder is though...

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