No internet connection in LMDE, please help!

[germanix]

I installed LMDE as a dual boot with Mint 10. The network manager sees all of the SSID`s of the neighbors but not my own router. (Mint 10 works fine). I tried the option to "connect to hidden wireless network" and here funny enough it does see my repeater but not my router. I am sitting next to the router and the repeater is one floor below. I cannot however connect to the repeater. I do enter the WPA & WPA2 personal Password but it just searches but will not connect. I also tried entering the name of my router and entered the password but no connection takes place. All other computers in the house connect without problems.
My ethernet controller is a Atheros AR5001X and my router is the FRITZ!Box 7270.
Will much appreciate help in solving this problem. Thanks.

[vincent]

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inxi -F
iwconfig
lspci -v

[germanix]

jacques@sony-viao ~ $ inxi -f
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache 1024 KB clocked at 1596.116 MHz
CPU Flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx
fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts
jacques@sony-viao ~ $ iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

pan0 no wireless extensions.

jacques@sony-viao ~ $ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Vaio VGN-S3XP
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at b0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at b0040000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b8
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81bb
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at b0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=168
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: b0100000-b01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000040000000-0000000043ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81b9
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 19
I/O ports at 18a0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus

06:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 818f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16
Memory at b0117000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=06, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 40000000-43fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 48000000-4bfff000
I/O window 0: 00002400-000024ff
I/O window 1: 00002800-000028ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus

06:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 818f
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at b0114000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at b0110000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

06:03.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 8190
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 57, IRQ 17
Memory at b0115000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tifm_7xx1

06:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Device 0406
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 22
Memory at b0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k

06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81d0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 20
Memory at b0116000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e100

[vincent]

inxi -F, with a capital "F". No big deal though, lspci has already clearly indicated your wifi card is an Atheros AR5001 card. It should already work though...

Are you using ndiswrapper? Also, could you please post the output of:

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lsmod

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jacques@sony-viao ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
cpufreq_userspace 1480 0
cpufreq_conservative 4018 0
cpufreq_powersave 602 0
cpufreq_stats 1940 0
parport_pc 15799 0
ppdev 4058 0
lp 5570 0
parport 22554 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
sco 5857 2
bridge 33019 0
stp 996 1 bridge
bnep 7444 2
rfcomm 25171 0
l2cap 21705 6 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth 36319 6 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
binfmt_misc 4907 1
fuse 43829 1
loop 9765 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 163194 1
snd_hda_intel 16787 2
snd_hda_codec 46002 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
i915 222064 2
snd_hwdep 4054 1 snd_hda_codec
drm_kms_helper 18301 1 i915
snd_pcm_oss 28671 0
snd_mixer_oss 10461 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 47226 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
arc4 974 2
drm 112088 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
ecb 1405 2
snd_seq_midi 3576 0
snd_rawmidi 12513 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 3684 1 snd_seq_midi
i2c_algo_bit 3497 1 i915
ath5k 104074 0
pcmcia 16194 0
snd_seq 35463 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
mac80211 123574 1 ath5k
joydev 6739 0
snd_timer 12258 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
ath 6014 1 ath5k
yenta_socket 16403 1
snd_seq_device 3673 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
cfg80211 87661 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
snd 34375 15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
sony_laptop 20205 0
rsrc_nonstatic 7057 1 yenta_socket
led_class 1757 1 ath5k
psmouse 44657 0
pcmcia_core 20450 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
tifm_sd 6506 0
serio_raw 2916 0
pcspkr 1207 0
mmc_core 38665 1 tifm_sd
soundcore 3450 1 snd
tifm_7xx1 3014 0
i2c_i801 6462 0
evdev 5609 22
i2c_core 12696 5 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
rng_core 2178 0
video 14605 1 i915
ac 1640 0
battery 3782 0
button 3598 1 i915
snd_page_alloc 5045 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rfkill 10264 4 bluetooth,cfg80211,sony_laptop
output 1204 1 video
processor 26327 1
tifm_core 3260 2 tifm_sd,tifm_7xx1
ext4 257803 2
mbcache 3762 1 ext4
jbd2 56155 1 ext4
crc16 1027 2 l2cap,ext4
btrfs 366799 0
zlib_deflate 15822 1 btrfs
crc32c 2172 1
libcrc32c 762 1 btrfs
usbhid 28008 0
hid 50845 1 usbhid
sg 15968 0
sr_mod 10770 0
cdrom 26487 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 25969 3
crc_t10dif 1012 1 sd_mod
ata_generic 2047 0
uhci_hcd 16057 0
ata_piix 17736 2
firewire_ohci 16509 0
libata 115745 2 ata_generic,ata_piix
thermal 9206 0
e100 22317 0
ehci_hcd 27851 0
firewire_core 31187 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1035 1 firewire_core
thermal_sys 9378 3 video,processor,thermal
mii 2714 1 e100
scsi_mod 101421 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 98453 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base 4541 1 usbcore
jacques@sony-viao ~ $

I am not using ndiswrapper

[vincent]

You don't seem to have any conflicting modules loaded...that's weird, I don't see any reason why your Atheros card isn't working. The Debian wiki page devoted to ath5k doesn't seem to give any other useful advice either (http://wiki.debian.org/ath5k). According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... er/Atheros though, this might be applicable for you:

Additional step for kernel 2.6.32.22 and later
Kernel 2.6.32.22 changed the default for the rfkill parameter of ath_pci from 0 to 1, which had the effect of killing the methods described above. You'll need to make sure that it's set back to 0 on system startup. To do that, edit (or create) the file /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf to include the line

options ath_pci rfkill=0
Your wireless should work after you reboot.

Give that a try and see if it works.

Also, in the future, please post the output of terminal commands inside [code][/code] brackets.

[germanix]

Thank you for your help. What you suggested did not work but it was worth the try. This is obviously a deal breaker for me so I decided to remove LMDE from my system and just work with Julia from now on. With Julia everything works out of the box and it is a great distro.
Thank you for all those who assisted and have a nice day.

[kwevej]

This is a consolekit bug
Install an older version from squeeze repository
bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598150

[TBABill]

Thank you for your help. What you suggested did not work but it was worth the try. This is obviously a deal breaker for me so I decided to remove LMDE from my system and just work with Julia from now on. With Julia everything works out of the box and it is a great distro.
Thank you for all those who assisted and have a nice day.

I just installed Squeeze on a laptop with an AR5001 today. The system enabled it and it was odd that I was online but network manager was not managing the connection. Nothing seemed to be. Can't explain it. But, the fix was to install Wicd. It managed it fine and all is well. I know you removed LMDE by now but if you get the urge, give it a go.