[wellylug] Fwd: WiFi problem
Daniel Reurich, Centurion Computer Technology.
daniel at centurion.net.nz
Fri Apr 25 21:45:39 NZST 2014
OK it is a broadcom chipset which is supported using the b43 driver which is in kernel on most modern distro's for at least the last 2 years.
I'd suggest doing a 'modprobe -r b43' and then a 'modprobe b43' and then check the kernel logs to see what is going on at the driver level. This should indicate what is going on with the wireless card and driver layer.
On 25 April 2014 5:32:36 PM NZST, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>This is a friend of mine who has retired and so installed Ubuntu on
>his own machine successfully and now is doing his wife's laptop.
>He has been trying for over a week. I am out of my depth with wifi.
>Can anyone help? As far as I can see the wifi is completely invisible.
>He'd be grateful for an off-group personal approach. (I have his
>permission to do this)
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Chris Francis <chris.francis at clear.net.nz>
>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:52:39 +1200
>Subject: WiFi problem
>To: Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com>
>
>Hi Jeff,
>
>I've still not managed to get WiFi going on Marian's laptop. I wonder
>if you might have any insights.
>
>On 'Ask Ubuntu' I found a list of suggested Wifi diagnostic commands,
>which I ran and then posted the resulting output (see below), but
>nobody
>has yet told me what it all means.
>
>Does any of it suggest a solution to you? I note in the output from
>'dmesg | grep wl' there are suggestions that things are not right
>(e.g.,
>'wl: module verification failed') but I have no clue what I should do
>about it.
>
>Chris
>
>$ lspci -v | grep -iA 7 network
>0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
>(rev 01)
> Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> Memory at dfdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
> Kernel driver in use: wl
> Kernel modules: wl, ssb
>
>$ lsmod | grep wl
>wl 3028745 1
>cfg80211 416271 1 wl
>lib80211 14040 1 wl
>
>$ lsmod | grep ssb
>[no output from this command]
>
>$ dmesg | grep wl
>[ 12.955967] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
>[ 12.959685] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or
>required
>key missing - tainting kernel
>[ 12.964701] wl driver 6.20.155.1 (r326264) failed with code 21
>[ 12.964748] Modules linked in: wl(POF+) snd_hwdep snd_pcm joydev
>snd_seq_midi i915(+) snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer
>snd_seq_device gpio_ich drm_kms_helper drm hid_generic pcmcia psmouse
>snd yenta_socket cfg80211 soundcore lpc_ich serio_raw dell_laptop
>i2c_algo_bit pcmcia_rsrc snd_page_alloc irda pcmcia_core dcdbas mac_hid
>lib80211 video crc_ccitt lp parport usbhid hid tg3 ptp pps_core
>[ 12.964870] EIP is at wdev_priv.part.7+0x3/0x5 [wl]
>[ 12.964982] [<f8d568d4>] wl_cfg80211_detach+0xc4/0xd0 [wl]
>[ 12.965023] [<f8d4f71f>] wl_free_if.isra.9+0x1f/0xa0 [wl]
>[ 12.965063] [<f8d4ffb8>] wl_free+0x58/0x250 [wl]
>[ 12.965113] [<f8c6fe92>] ? wlc_attach+0xf6c/0xfda [wl]
>[ 12.965148] [<f875b51b>] wl_pci_probe+0x502/0xfe7 [wl]
>[ 12.965325] [<f875b017>] wl_module_init+0x17/0x19 [wl]
>[ 12.965474] EIP: [<f8d56e87>] wdev_priv.part.7+0x3/0x5 [wl] SS:ESP
>0068:f5027c0c
>
>$ dmesg | grep ssb
>[no output from this command]
>
>$ sudo lshw -c network
> *-network
> description: Network controller
> product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
> vendor: Broadcom Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci at 0000:0c:00.0
> version: 01
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
> configuration: driver=wl latency=0
> resources: irq:17 memory:dfdfc000-dfdfffff
> *-network
> description: Ethernet interface
> product: NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
> vendor: Broadcom Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci at 0000:09:00.0
> logical name: eth0
> version: 02
> serial: 00:15:c5:43:e4:0d
> size: 100Mbit/s
> capacity: 1Gbit/s
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
>physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd
>autonegotiation
> configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3
>driverversion=3.132 duplex=full firmware=5752-v3.19 ip=192.168.1.103
>latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
> resources: irq:44 memory:dfcf0000-dfcfffff
>
>$ ifconfig
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:c5:43:e4:0d
> inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe43:e40d/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:36522 (36.5 KB) TX bytes:20320 (20.3 KB)
> Interrupt:18
>
>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:65536 Metric:1
> RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:5280 (5.2 KB) TX bytes:5280 (5.2 KB)
>
>$ iwconfig
>lo no wireless extensions.
>
>eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
>$ iwlist scan
>lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
>eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
>
>$ nm-tool
>
>NetworkManager Tool
>
>State: connected (global)
>
>- Device: eth0 [Wired connection 1]
>-------------------------------------------
> Type: Wired
> Driver: tg3
> State: connected
> Default: yes
> HW Address: 00:15:C5:43:E4:0D
>
> Capabilities:
> Carrier Detect: yes
> Speed: 100 Mb/s
>
> Wired Properties
> Carrier: on
>
> IPv4 Settings:
> Address: 192.168.1.103
> Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
> Gateway: 192.168.1.1
>
> DNS: 203.96.152.4
> DNS: 203.96.152.12
>
>$ rfkill list all
>[no output from this command]
>
>
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