Yet another Newb with a wireless problem - SOLVED

[bgadds]

Windows guru, Linux Newb here.....trying out mint 11 on my eee 1015pem.

just about ready to dump 7 starter for good if i can get 2 issues taken care of:

1st - Wireless works perfectly with eee plugged in....NADA on battery power. checked all power settings to no avail. heres what i am running:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

Tried using a windows 7 driver, but that didn't work. been searching forums for a week and have seen others with same problem.....but no real solutions. keep reading about broadcom drivers, but that doesn't seem to be what i am running.

2nd - mint won't shut down correctly....hanging on something. have to force it everytime.

thanks in advance for any advice.....and please take it easy on the newb.....promise to return the failure here on the forums once i figure out everything there is to know about linux....give me a month or two.

[nunol]

That is odd.

Do you have the latest BIOS for that netbook?

Could be a ACPI problem, have you tried some boot option, "acpi=off", "acpi=force", "pci=noacpi", etc? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootO ... %20Options

Have you tried another kernel, like 2.6.39.1? Check here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40185
(That kernel 2.6.38-8 has problems with my Eee 1001P)

Have you tried wicd instead of network-manager?

[TBABill]

02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

That's your device. The RT3090 works well but often has conflicts with more than one driver trying to claim it. Can you enter

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inxi -N

in a terminal and paste the output here? Then also

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sudo lshw -C network

and

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mintwifi

[bgadds]

sorry for the delay. here are the reports as requested:

Network: Card-1 Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet driver atl1c
Card-2 Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver rt2800p



*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 74:f0:6d:04:ac:1b
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=0.11 ip=192.168.1.104 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8132 Fast Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 20:cf:30:58:d5:17
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 firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:45 memory:f7fc0000-f7ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128)



looking forward to your thoughts........

[bgadds]

oops last one:

I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
==> PCI ID = 1814:3090
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
netl1e86 : driver installed
-------------------------
* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"bgadds"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:18:39:CF:E0:F4
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-39 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:10 Invalid misc:78 Missed beacon:0

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 20:cf:30:58:d5:17
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:45

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:f0:6d:04:ac:1b
inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::76f0:6dff:fe04:ac1b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3926 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4002269 (4.0 MB) TX bytes:647069 (647.0 KB)

-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 209.55.5.10
Address: 209.55.5.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.106
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.91.147

[TBABill]

Sorry but I am on vacation and limited to my iPod touch so very challenging. Can you post the output of lsmod ? And you can do an advanced search of my posts for help with rt2860/rt3090 devices if u need faster info.

[bgadds]

here ya go.....

Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 13213 1
parport_pc 32111 0
ppdev 12849 0
dm_crypt 22463 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 255820 1
snd_hda_intel 24140 2
snd_hda_codec 90901 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13274 1 snd_hda_codec
rt2860sta 494649 0
eeepc_wmi 18771 0
snd_pcm 80244 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
sparse_keymap 13666 1 eeepc_wmi
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
arc4 12473 2
snd_rawmidi 25269 1 snd_seq_midi
rt2800pci 18159 0
rt2800lib 43824 1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt 12595 2 rt2860sta,rt2800lib
rt2x00pci 13986 1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib 39075 3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51291 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
mac80211 257001 3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
snd_timer 28659 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14110 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
uvcvideo 66851 0
psmouse 73312 0
serio_raw 12990 0
snd 55295 13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
videodev 75143 1 uvcvideo
joydev 17322 0
cfg80211 156212 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
soundcore 12600 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14073 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
eeprom_93cx6 12653 1 rt2800pci
lp 13349 0
parport 36746 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid 41704 0
hid 77084 1 usbhid
dm_raid45 88410 0
xor 21860 1 dm_raid45
btrfs 527341 0
zlib_deflate 26594 1 btrfs
libcrc32c 12543 1 btrfs
i915 450944 3
drm_kms_helper 40745 1 i915
drm 180037 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
ahci 21591 2
atl1c 36237 0
libahci 25548 1 ahci
i2c_algo_bit 13184 1 i915
video 18951 1 i915

[TBABill]

You need to blacklist all the rt2800 items and keep the rt2860sta. Do the advAnced search of my posts for rt2860 and just follow the blacklist steps.

[bgadds]

worked like a charm. many thanks....

now if i can figure out whats causing mint to not shut down properly....have to force it everytime....seeming to hang on something.

[AlbertP]

Can you press F8 during shutdown to see technical messages?

[bgadds]

you know what.....system now shuts down properly as well.........guess we know now what was hanging up! Awesum.

again, many thanks for the help.......

[TBABill]

worked like a charm. many thanks....

now if i can figure out whats causing mint to not shut down properly....have to force it everytime....seeming to hang on something.

Glad to hear you have it all working!! Very welcome.

[AlbertP]

Please add [solved] to the topic title (edit the first post) when you don't need more help with wireless. And if you get more problems with Mint, please open a new topic.