First off, some system information: inxi -Fxz:
And here is the result of running the wifi script:System: Host: olly Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP 15 Notebook PC version: 0975100000405F00001620180
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 22CD version: 93.15 Bios: Insyde version: F.16 date: 05/30/2014
CPU: Quad core AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 15970.3
Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1000.00 MHz 3: 1000.00 MHz 4: 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon APU A4-6000 with R2 Graphics] bus-ID: 00:01.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati (unloaded: vesa,radeon) FAILED: fbdev Resolution: 1366x768@76.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 9840 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
And here is the result of lshw -C network:olly@olly ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for olly:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 10ec:8179 (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:"ollies-wireless-network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:26:F2:49:90:CE
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s Tx-Power=33 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-64 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:96:d1:d7
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)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17800 (17.8 KB) TX bytes:17800 (17.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:48:9a:ca:da:5e
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4560 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3579 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5461300 (5.4 MB) TX bytes:491041 (491.0 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.232
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.233
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.230
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.231
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.226
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.229
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.238
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.224
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.227
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.225
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.228
Solutions attempted:olly@olly ~ $ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 90:48:9a:ca:da:5e
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8188ee driverversion=3.13.0-24-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:36 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0c00000-f0c03fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 07
serial: f8:a9:63:96:d1:d7
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/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=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:79 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0b00000-f0b00fff memory:f0800000-f0803fff
I have disabled Ipv6 support, as follows:
sudo su
echo "#disable ipv6" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
(followed by a reboot)
I also tried updating the driver as follows:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms git
git clone https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver
cd rtl8188ce-linux-driver
make
sudo make install
sudo cp -r firmware/* /lib/firmware
echo "options rtl8188ee ips=0 fwlps=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8188ee.conf
However the wifi is still faulty. I would really appreciate any help: this is really causing me a headache!
Thanks in advance.