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raincorns

New Member

Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 7

(Solved) Wifi won't show up / start

Hello, I'm kinda new with linux and i just installed crunchbang and everything seems good, but i got this problem with wifi, it won't show up on my packard bell laptop. Any suggestion on how to fix this problem ?

this is my "spec"

uname -r
lspci -knn

2.6.32-5-amd64

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port [8086:0045] (rev 02)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 320M] [10de:0a2d] (rev a2)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be2] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1692] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
    Kernel driver in use: tg3
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192SE Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8174] (rev 10)
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8186]
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:036d]

Last edited by raincorns (2012-06-11 14:11:57)

xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,602

Re: (Solved) Wifi won't show up / start

You will have to upgrade your kernel to the latest version in backports:

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Upgrade to the latest kernel in backports:
============================================

(1) edit /etc/apt/sources.list
    uncomment the backports repository: remove the leading '#'

(2) edit /etc/apt/preferences
    See this link http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/142270/#p142270

(3) update your cache

sudo apt-get update

(4) install the newest kernel

sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae

    Replace '686-pae' by 'amd64' if you have 64-bit hardware.

5) Reboot into the new kernel

6) install firmware

sudo apt-get install firmware-realtek

Your wireless should work now.

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-06-06 13:12:12)

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raincorns

New Member

Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 7

Re: (Solved) Wifi won't show up / start

^ Okey I'll try this out later today. Got a question, does the 64-bit BPO comes with the latest kernel ? if so maybe wifi will work on that one ?

Edit, I tried the 64bit BPO and the wifi works like a charm! Thank you anyway maybe this will be helpful for someone else ! cheers

Last edited by raincorns (2012-06-11 14:09:10)