Cannot get WIFI working [SOLVED]

LDC · 2012-09-06 01:32:20

(I think this is the right channel)

I saw another thread about Acer AOD257 with the same trouble, but I have a different model.

ldc@#!:~$ uname -a
Linux crunchbang 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 16:04:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

and...

ldc@#!:~$ lspci -knn | grep -i net -A4
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device [105b:e042]
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:5209] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0590]

I have also seen some talking about setting the WIFI manually... I have absolutely no idea what to do with any of those things except WEP...

Last edited by LDC (2012-09-12 00:23:46)

tmillic · 2012-09-06 04:25:18

There is a package called firmware-realtek. Have you installed it?

xaos52 · 2012-09-06 08:51:13

The wifi is broadcom. See if it works if you install

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

If it does not work after installing the firmware, post output of

dmesg| grep -Ei 'net|firm|b43'
lsmod|grep b43

LDC · 2012-09-06 13:25:24

It says that both packages are already installed. What packages does ubuntu use? Because on Lubuntu/Xubuntu that I've used, they show my wifi and all the wifi networks of my neighbors and stuff, during the installation.

ldc@#!:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
[sudo] password for ldc: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmozjs10d libvpx0 xulrunner-10.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ldc@#!:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-realtek
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
firmware-realtek is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmozjs10d libvpx0 xulrunner-10.0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I may have done this next step wrong...

ldc@#!:~$ dmesg| grep -Ei 'net|firm|b43'
[    0.000000]   Transmeta GenuineTMx86
[    0.004307] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[    0.358369] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.461271] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.465210] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    1.156917] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[    1.565172] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    1.567911] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.569390] Initalizing network drop monitor service
[    1.966125] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[    7.347565] brcm80211 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[    7.772093] brcm80211: fail to load firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[    7.772102] brcm80211: Failed to find firmware usually in /lib/firmware/brcm
[   15.271787] r8169 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
[   15.571636] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   16.597794] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   16.929028] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   17.232067] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
ldc@#!:~$ lsmod|grep b43
ldc@#!:~$

xaos52 · 2012-09-06 15:10:13

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/204704/#p204704

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.3-686-pae

5. Reboot into the new kernel
6. install firmware

 sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

See http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/forum … gunstable/

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-09-10 15:01:39)

LDC · 2012-09-06 18:08:32

Both of these folders are empty, and I otherwise have no idea what to do with them.

1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list
• uncomment the backports repository - remove the leading '#'
2. edit /etc/apt/preferences

xaos52 · 2012-09-06 19:39:48

Strange...
Please post output from

sudo find /etc/apt

LDC · 2012-09-06 20:50:19

ldc@#!:~$ sudo find /etc/apt
[sudo] password for ldc: 
/etc/apt
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg
/etc/apt/preferences
/etc/apt/sources.list.d
/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg
/etc/apt/secring.gpg
/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00aptitude
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00CDMountPoint
/etc/apt/apt.conf
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
/etc/apt/sources.list~
/etc/apt/preferences.d

xaos52 · 2012-09-07 08:25:13

/etc/apt/sources.list

The file exists allright.
Perhaps I was too succinct. When I wrote edit ... I meant use your preferred editor...
So in stable, I think it was geany and you should enter the command
gksudo geany /etc/apt/sources.list
enter your password
remove the leading # from the backports entry
save the file.

Same for /etc/apt/preferences.

Then continue commands from earlier post.

Hope this helps

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-09-07 08:26:12)

LDC · 2012-09-07 13:32:24

Ok I edited /etc/apt/sources.list like you said, removed the leading '#'

But /etc/apt/preferences only had this, no leading '#'

Package: *
Pin: release a=statler
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=squeeze-backports
Pin-Priority: 100

Package: *
Pin: release a=squeeze
Pin-Priority: 500

xaos52 · 2012-09-07 15:55:53

That's OK as it is.
You can proceed with the rest of the commands.

LDC · 2012-09-07 22:04:26

4. install the newest kernel

sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-i686-pae

On this step, this happened...

Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-i686-pae
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-i686-pae'

xaos52 · 2012-09-08 08:07:32

Typo: replace i686 by 686

LDC · 2012-09-08 22:07:41

I followed all the steps, rebooted after downloading the kernel, and its still not working, I have reinstalled Lubuntu unfortunately...since it registers my wifi out of the box.

However, while I prefer Ubuntu, I have decided that Crunchbang's openbox DE is my favorite. I need to close this thread soon, but anybody wouldn't happen to know what #! pager is for the panel? I love the way #! does workspaces.

sano · 2012-09-09 14:57:47

You do not need to install firmware-b43-installer, but firmware-brcm80211. See https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211#Squeeze. Note that the name of the module changed in Squeeze, it is now the same as in Wheezy, at least when using backports.

sudo apt-get install firmware-brcm80211

Then give it a try:

sudo modprobe brcmsmac

or just reboot.

LDC · 2012-09-10 14:29:02

Everything I said about switching back to lubuntu, I take it back. The user interface is just too good, and getting the wifi working is going to be easier, maybe, than tweaking openbox...

I'll report back when I've gone through all the steps again.

LDC · 2012-09-10 14:36:36

My wifi is now working. Since I reinstalled, all the stuff with backports would have to be done again, but the only thing I've done is...

sudo apt-get install firmware-brcm80211

which did the trick. Easy. Many thanks everyone.

Edit: I have no idea how to close this thread.

Last edited by LDC (2012-09-10 14:38:26)

xaos52 · 2012-09-10 14:57:55

Edit your first post. Add [SOLVED] to the title.

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