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#1 2010-07-01 18:52:41

mishanya
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wifi driver

i'm trying to get my wifi card working on my old toshiba laptop. so i follow the instructions in wiki:

lspci | grep -i net

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

i looked for a proper driver and found that one:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3631

downloaded it, unpacked it, performed:

makepkg -cs

==> Making package: rtl8180 0.22_pre20070726-1 (Thu Jul  1 22:51:23 MSD 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading rtl8180-0.22_pre20070726.tar.bz2...
--2010-07-01 22:51:23--  http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org/packages … 26.tar.bz2
Resolving hdoria.archlinux-br.org... 69.163.228.9
Connecting to hdoria.archlinux-br.org|69.163.228.9|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
2010-07-01 22:55:31 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading rtl8180-0.22_pre20070726.tar.bz2
    Aborting...

therefore i got three questions: im i trying to use an appropriate driver? whats wrong with the server? is there other place i could install it from?

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#2 2010-07-01 20:48:06

calef13
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Re: wifi driver

According to this website:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … rs-433723/

and Realtek's own website, RTL-8139 is an ethernet adapter, rather than a wireless one. Are you sure you got the right device in lspci? Post the whole output from lspci here, and maybe dmesg as well. It could be linux isn't detecting your wifi card at all. Are you sure the wireless card in it still works?

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#3 2010-07-01 20:54:54

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Re: wifi driver

+1

The RTL8139 is an ethernet device. Posting the full output of lspci should help us see which wifi card you have.

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#4 2010-07-01 21:00:29

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

i posted the whole lspci response. wifi used to work fine with crunchbang installed.
there is however on/off switcher and fn+F8 key, though they do not effect the lspci output at all

maybe there are other ways to find out what card is inside (omitting the disassembling option)?
and what do i do if my card is not detected?

Last edited by mishanya (2010-07-01 21:01:39)

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#5 2010-07-02 00:18:10

cesura
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Re: wifi driver

mishanya wrote:

i posted the whole lspci response. wifi used to work fine with crunchbang installed.
there is however on/off switcher and fn+F8 key, though they do not effect the lspci output at all

maybe there are other ways to find out what card is inside (omitting the disassembling option)?
and what do i do if my card is not detected?

Post lspci without the grep part. It may not have the work "net" in it.

You could always take out the card and google the model number.

Last edited by cesura (2010-07-02 00:19:11)

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#6 2010-07-02 10:51:54

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

ok here goes the lspci output:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev ff)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)

im not too good with hardware - cant tell whether it has detected my card or not.
if not i guess ill have to take it out and see for my self.

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#7 2010-07-02 19:12:38

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Re: wifi driver

it looks there's no wireless chip there, are you sure the hard switch is in the right position? does there light up a led anywhere normally when it's enabled?

look up the specs of your specific toshiba model online, find out which wireless chip it has.


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#8 2010-07-03 13:39:51

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

i did a bit of research and it looks like my toshiba satellite P25-S487 is using E5D7\1 wireless card (so old it does not support wpa).

the hard switch is in the right position and the light does goes on/off just as it should... i do not think the problem is with the hardware

Last edited by mishanya (2010-07-03 13:40:07)

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#9 2010-07-08 20:06:54

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

ive loaded ubuntu 10.04 from live-cd my wifi work perfectly ,though i still cant figure out what wifi driver i need to install... here are some console outputs:

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: None   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/0 
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-122 dBm  Noise level=-122 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
binfmt_misc             6587  1
lp                      7028  0
dm_crypt               11331  0
snd_intel8x0           25588  2
snd_ac97_codec        100646  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1002  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                70662  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
michael_mic             1732  4
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0
snd_seq_oss            26726  0
snd_seq_midi            4557  0
orinoco_cs              8782  1
orinoco                62841  1 orinoco_cs
snd_rawmidi            19056  1 snd_seq_midi
cfg80211              126485  1 orinoco
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              19098  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          5700  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcmcia                 33024  1 orinoco_cs
ppdev                   5259  0
snd                    54148  14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
irda                  186556  0
joydev                  8708  0
yenta_socket           20408  5
rsrc_nonstatic         10015  1 yenta_socket
parport_pc             25962  1
pcmcia_core            32964  4 orinoco_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
soundcore               6620  1 snd
psmouse                63245  0
parport                32635  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
shpchp                 28820  0
crc_ccitt               1339  1 irda
snd_page_alloc          7076  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
serio_raw               3978  0
squashfs               20680  1
aufs                  149050  1
nls_cp437               4919  1
isofs                  29250  1
dm_raid45              81647  0
xor                    15028  1 dm_raid45
fbcon                  35102  71
tileblit                2031  1 fbcon
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
vga16fb                11385  0
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
nouveau               467048  2
ttm                    49943  1 nouveau
ohci1394               26950  0
drm_kms_helper         29297  1 nouveau
8139too                18545  0
video                  17375  0
usbhid                 36110  0
floppy                 53016  0
drm                   162471  4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
output                  1871  1 video
i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 nouveau
8139cp                 16186  0
mii                     4381  2 8139too,8139cp
ieee1394               81181  1 ohci1394
hid                    67032  1 usbhid
intel_agp              24177  1
agpgart                31724  3 ttm,drm,intel_agp
ramzswap                6362  1
xvmalloc                4074  1 ramzswap
lzo_decompress          2189  1 ramzswap
lzo_compress            1853  1 ramzswap

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev ff)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:06.0 System peripheral: Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)

how do i find out what drive ubuntu is using to install it to my arch desktop?

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#10 2010-07-08 20:12:05

Mr.Elendig
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Re: wifi driver

Looks like you have one of these:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#orinoco

'modprobe orinoco_cs'  and see if anything fun happens in dmesg/iwconfig

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#11 2010-07-08 20:38:47

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

followed the wiki instruction with no result

but after modprobe orinoco_cs i get the following:

iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   Sensitivity:1/0 
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-122 dBm  Noise level=-122 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device

iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning.

looks like some progress here.. but what do i do next?

p.s. after wiki instructions my rc looks like: MODULES=(!snd_pcsp !orinoco_cs wlags49_hl_cs)

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#12 2010-07-08 20:44:37

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

dmesg iwconfig gives a big out, here is a part about orinoco:

NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
fuse init (API version 7.13)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.0: Hardware identity 0005:0004:0005:0000
orinoco_cs 0.0: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:000a
orinoco_cs 0.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10
orinoco_cs 0.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
orinoco_cs 0.0: firmware: requesting agere_sta_fw.bin
orinoco_cs 0.0: Cannot find firmware agere_sta_fw.bin
orinoco_cs 0.0: Hardware identity 0005:0004:0005:0000
orinoco_cs 0.0: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:000a
orinoco_cs 0.0: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.10
orinoco_cs 0.0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
orinoco_cs 0.0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
orinoco_cs 0.0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode

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#13 2010-07-08 21:01:50

tomk
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Re: wifi driver

It's eth1, not wlan0.

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#14 2010-07-08 21:09:08

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

$ sudo ifconfig eth1 up
$ iwlist eth1 scan
eth1      No scan results

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#15 2010-07-08 21:10:43

mishanya
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Re: wifi driver

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:3F:81:38:7E 
          inet addr:10...... Bcast:10......Mask:255.255......
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:3fff:fe81:387e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5767 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2607452 (2.4 Mb)  TX bytes:579938 (566.3 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc800

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:B2:B1:E8 
          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:18 Base address:0x3100

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3837 (3.7 Kb)  TX bytes:3837 (3.7 Kb)

Last edited by mishanya (2010-07-08 21:15:07)

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#16 2010-07-09 11:23:30

Mr.Elendig
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Re: wifi driver

Try orinoco_cs instead of wlags49_hl_cs


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