can't make wifi working please help

[victimles]

wifi doesn't work. i am using linux 10 kde please help

[wyrdoak]

In there terminal type

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inxi -Fc 0

Copy and Post it. So we have an idea for what hardware you have.

[victimles]

System: Host victimles-TOSHIBA-NB505 Kernel 2.6.35-22-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 10 KDE
CPU: Single core Intel Atom N455 (-HT-) cache 512 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips 3324.94
Clock Speeds: (1) 1000.00 MHz (2) 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.9.0 Res: 1024x600@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel IGD GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.9-devel Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 3000 BusID: 09:00.0
Card-2 Realtek Device 8176 at port 2000 BusID: 07:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (2.0% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HTS54502 250.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 224G used: 4.8G (3%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 6.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 158 Uptime 1:06 Memory 490.8/2002.6MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.12

[wyrdoak]

Do the same with

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sudo lshw -C network

so we came see if wifi is active.

[victimles]

*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 1c:75:08:7f:d3:8c
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.71 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f050c000-f050cfff memory:f0508000-f050bfff

[wyrdoak]

http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/ ... E883aYf4zo

could also try to see if the additional drivers program picks it up.

[victimles]

my wifi doesn't work please help
here is lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
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.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (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)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8176 (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

AND inxi -Fc 0


System: Host victimles-TOSHIBA-NB505 Kernel 2.6.35-22-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 10 KDE
CPU: Single core Intel Atom N455 (-HT-) cache 512 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips 3324.59
Clock Speeds: (1) 1667.00 MHz (2) 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.9.0 Res: 1024x600@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel IGD GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.9-devel Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169 at port 3000 BusID: 09:00.0
Card-2 Realtek Device 8176 at port 2000 BusID: 07:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (2.1% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HTS54502 250.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 224G used: 5.1G (3%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 6.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 162 Uptime 42 min Memory 545.5/2002.6MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.12

[stratus_ss]

Your wifi card isnt even being detected. It would be very helpful to know the maker of the wifi chipset before proceeding

[victimles]

It's Realtek RTL8188CF

[zerozero]

[please don't double-post, won't get you faster answers and only add confusion to the board. topics merged]

[victimles]

so how can i make it work

[stratus_ss]

if you have the windows drivers we can use ndiswrapper

Is this a USB wifi? if so that is important information that was left out

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sudo lsusb


I found this on the ubuntu forums

1. The first step is to download the RTL8192CU driver from realtek which was already mentioned before. The Linux driver version 3.1.2590 has an update time 9/28/2011 with kernel version 2.6.38.

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=true

2. unzip the file, cd driver folder, tar -zxvf xxx.tar.gz file which has the source code.

3. make and make install should give no error. You should see the 8192CU.ko and a few other files.

4. sudo modprobe 8192CU. As soon as the step is finished, ifconfig and iwconfig should see wlan0 being generated. Network manager will also detect the driver.

5. Connection using WEP should work after disconnecting ethernet.

6. Adding a line for 8192CU to /etc/module file so that rebooting would force loading the driver.

7. I also blackout a few drivers, rtl8180, 8187, 8192ce, 8192u in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file. But I am not sure which one is absolutely necessary.

perhaps this will help

[victimles]

unfortunately this is not usd wifi, it's wifi card; however, i might get one since i am having so much problems.