Wireless drivers installed and can 'see' wireless networks, but....

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-29 22:50:41

When I try to connect to them the wheel in the tray just spins for a while, then says I have been disconnected from the network. All I know is that I was moving around files in my home directory when I noticed I was disconnected at first. Any help is much appreciated! smile

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 02:51:57

Is there anything in the home directory related to the network at all?

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 02:51:57

EDIT: sorry, double post.

Last edited by steampunknyanja (2011-09-30 02:52:20)

machinebacon · 2011-09-30 02:56:17

Usually not. /etc/network* is the place to go. I don't think you have configured the network manager to use a custom configuration file (I am not even sure if this is common practice on user-basis)

Not a solution, but you can try (if you have a wired connection now) to remove the network-manager and replace it with wicd. Many users have reported this to be a solution.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 03:07:18

Wicd can't find any networks at all, where nm can 'see' them but not connect. Is it possible that nm is 'fooled' somehow by a cache or something of the like and It can't actually 'see' them?

machinebacon · 2011-09-30 03:15:25

Ah I know what you mean. nm remembers wireless networks and tries to connect to one of them (if ever successful before). Maybe that's what you mean with 'cache'.

Ozitraveller · 2011-09-30 03:19:17

Would you mind running this please and posting the output:

sudo iwconfig && sudo lshw -C network && sudo lspci -n

Or download the Wireless Info script from link below, and post back output.

smile

Last edited by Ozitraveller (2011-09-30 03:26:57)

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 12:27:26

Here is the result of that string of commands:

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:144 Mb/s   Tx-Power:24 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
          Link Quality=5/5  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=-92 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: AR8132 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: aa:00:04:00:0a:04
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.1.42 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:45 memory:b6800000-b683ffff ioport:3000(size=128)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: aa:00:04:00:0a:04
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.100.82.38 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:17 memory:b5800000-b5803fff
00:00.0 0600: 8086:0044 (rev 02)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:0045 (rev 02)
00:02.0 0300: 8086:0046 (rev 02)
00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:3b3c (rev 05)
00:1b.0 0403: 8086:3b57 (rev 05)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:3b42 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 0604: 8086:3b44 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 0604: 8086:3b4a (rev 05)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:3b34 (rev 05)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev a5)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:3b0f (rev 05)
00:1f.2 0106: 8086:3b2f (rev 05)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:3b30 (rev 05)
00:1f.6 1180: 8086:3b32 (rev 05)
01:00.0 0300: 10de:0caf (rev a2)
02:00.0 0200: 1969:1062 (rev c0)
03:00.0 0280: 14e4:4353 (rev 01)
04:00.0 0c00: 197b:2380 (rev 30)
04:00.1 0880: 197b:2382 (rev 30)
04:00.3 0880: 197b:2383 (rev 30)
ff:00.0 0600: 8086:2c62 (rev 02)
ff:00.1 0600: 8086:2d01 (rev 02)
ff:02.0 0600: 8086:2d10 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 0600: 8086:2d11 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 0600: 8086:2d12 (rev 02)
ff:02.3 0600: 8086:2d13 (rev 02)

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 21:43:11

That wireless script said that it couldn't find the required binaries.

steampunknyanja · 2011-09-30 22:56:02

I just realized that this is in the wrong forum, can a mod move it to Help (unstable)? I'm on the liquorix kernel!

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