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bacondrinker

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Registered: 2014-01-01

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[Solved For Now] Wireless Not Working on HP Pavillion 15-n278sa

EDIT: I seem to have fixed it for now by following this tutorial, I don't know how long it will last though: http://askubuntu.com/questions/337785/w … -c55-a5281

Hi there guys,

I have been having some problems with my Wireless under arch on my lapotop, which is a HP Pavillion 15-n278sa. I've had the wireless working twice before, but a reboot broke it both times. The Ethernet works perfectly fine. The first time I have no idea how I got it to work, it was a combination of a bunch of different threads and eventually I modprobed the wireless adapter and it worked (this no longer works).

This is the output of when I try to connect to the wireless using wifi-menu:

Job for netctl@wireless.service failed. See 'systemctl status netctl@wireless.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

So I run systemctl status netctl@wireless.service and journalctl -xn and this is the output of the both respectively:

Systemctl output:

   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/netctl@wireless.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-03-19 11:20:53 GMT; 1min 49s ago
     Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
  Process: 2154 ExecStart=/usr/lib/network/network start %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 2154 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 19 11:20:52 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Starting Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu...
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: netctl@wireless.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Unit netctl@wireless.service entered failed state.
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop network[2154]: Starting network profile 'wireless'...
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop network[2154]: The interface of network profile 'wireless' is already up

journalctl output:

-- Logs begin at Sun 2014-03-16 14:34:24 GMT, end at Wed 2014-03-19 11:24:47 GMT. --
Mar 19 11:24:42 carwyn-laptop sudo[2237]: carwyn : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/carwyn ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/wifi-menu
Mar 19 11:24:42 carwyn-laptop sudo[2237]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by carwyn(uid=0)
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.
-- Subject: Unit netctl@wireless.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit netctl@wireless.service has finished shutting down.
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Starting Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu...
-- Subject: Unit netctl@wireless.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit netctl@wireless.service has begun starting up.
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop network[2301]: Starting network profile 'wireless'...
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop network[2301]: The interface of network profile 'wireless' is already up
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: netctl@wireless.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.
-- Subject: Unit netctl@wireless.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit netctl@wireless.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Unit netctl@wireless.service entered failed state.
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop sudo[2237]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

The network cards that I am using are the following (output from lspci -nn)

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)

This one being the wireless controller:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)

If there is anything more I can provide I would happily do it, I really need the wireless to work under this laptop. I know it works, I have had it working under Arch and it works under Ubuntu no problem. I am not sure if it is a driver problem, or if it's a problem with netctl. It looks more like a problem with netctl as after netctl updated it started working, and after a reboot it broke again.

Thanks so very much everyone,
Bacondrinker

Last edited by bacondrinker (2014-03-19 13:47:15)