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andrzejsky

Internet via WiFi fails

Post by andrzejsky »

H,
It's been almost two weeks I was trying to figure out what is going on. I have upgraded Mint to the newest Qiana XFCE and cannot open any Internet site or download updates over WiFi connection. As soon as I connect cable - everything works fine.
I thought that maybe I messed up some configuration. I downloaded and started the system from Live USB - same story. I downloaded another distribution (Fedora) - it's the same. I have to say I am now quite frustrated and have no freaking idea what is happening. Connection goes over my private router without any fancy settings apart from the password :)
I have W7 installed and have no issues there. I suspect it must something wrong with the newest inux distribution maybe. I have noticed that lot of people complain about WiFi connectivity. Could anyone advise me what else I could check? Currently I am downloading older Linux distirbution just to see if this might be the issue.

sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py-------------------------
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"Ginginja"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: 78:54:2E:A3:7B:70
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e8:9d:87:5b:bc:25
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:20 Memory:c4800000-c4820000

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:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2768 (2.7 KB) TX bytes:2768 (2.7 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:a3:c4:c7:1f:bb
inet6 addr: fe80::6aa3:c4ff:fec7:1fbb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:53 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:896 (896.0 B) TX bytes:7199 (7.1 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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PatH57

Re: Internet via WiFi fails

Post by PatH57 »

while connected did you try control center ,driver manager? check if it sees another driver for your atheros card.
andrzejsky

Re: Internet via WiFi fails

Post by andrzejsky »

Sorry for such a long delay in replying. Anyway - Device manager crashes. I don't have English interface but it shows message sth like: There are no owned drivers.
And showes empty window.
I tried already 4 Linux distribution - I get connected with WiFi but no way to display any page or i.e. download updates. I'm really stuck with it.
PatH57

Re: Internet via WiFi fails

Post by PatH57 »

ok,

let's first update your system and see what happens, open terminal and copy paste this into it.

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get upgrade

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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sudo apt-get install -f
DrHu

Re: Internet via WiFi fails

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