Wireless doesn't work on Linux Mint 10

[ouaboa]

Hi Everyone,

I recently installed Linux Mint 10 on my laptop. Windows XP was the previous OS on my computer. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 1410. Everything works fine except my wireless connection... Can somebody help me by giving me step by step instructions to install the drivers for my LAN card and the setup for my connection?
I made a copy of the drivers on my desktop from the XP boot CD. For Linux I have the following files:
LAN4401 folder: bcm4400-3.0.7.tar.gz, bcm4400-3.0.7-1.src.rpm
LAN5780 folder: bcm5700-6.2.17.tar.gz, bcm5700-6.2.17-1.src.rpm
I tried the installation steps given in the readme file....but it doesn't work...maybe I don't do it right?

Below are some infos obtain with a Terminal:

ouaboa@Solaris ~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: InProComm Inc. IPN 2220 802.11g
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
02:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller

ouaboa@Solaris ~ $ inxi -N
Network:
Card-1 Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T driver b44
Card-2 InProComm IPN 2220 802.11g
ouaboa@Solaris ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3261 0
nls_cp437 4931 0
vfat 9201 0
fat 48240 1
vfat usb_storage 40172 0
binfmt_misc 6599 1
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
dm_crypt 11385 0
snd_intel8x0 25632 2
snd_ac97_codec 99227 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1014 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
joydev 8735 0
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
pcmcia 35973 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
yenta_socket 21518 0
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
tifm_7xx1 3766 0
pcmcia_rsrc 10566 1 yenta_socket
snd 49006 11
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
tifm_core 6089 1 tifm_7xx1
pcmcia_core 14657 3
pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
snd 49006 11
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
tifm_core 6089 1 tifm_7xx1
pcmcia_core 14657 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
soundcore 880 1 snd
irda 178938 0
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 29886 0
lp 7342 0
psmouse 59033 0
crc_ccitt 1351 1 irda
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
serio_raw 4022 0
dm_raid45 81721 0
xor 15136 1 dm_raid45
btrfs 489451 0
zlib_deflate 19266 1 btrfs
crc32c 2531 1
libcrc32c 887 1 btrfs
i915 290938 2
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
drm 168054 2 i915,drm_kms_helper
b44 26253 0
intel_agp 26360 2 i915
firewire_ohci 21106 0
ssb 39288 1 b44
firewire_core 46643 1 firewire_ohci
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
video 18712 1 i915
mii 4425 1 b44
crc_itu_t 1383 1 firewire_core
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
output 1883 1 video
Thanks for your help
Jean-Serge

[TBABill]

Ok, I think the problem is the Broadcom is your wired internet and your InProComm is the wireless. You need a windows driver for it and to use ndiswrapper. Here's a link to a solution from the Ubuntu forums, which will work here as well. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=133492

[starkreiten]

ouaboa,

I'm brand new to Mint, but just thought I'd mention that 802.11N for Intel wireless adapters is currently disabled in Ubuntu 10.10 (and thus Mint10?) due to firmware issues. Intel is supposedly working on a fix. The problem is that N capability was causing slowdowns (1Mbs) on the whole adapter whether you were using N or not, so they disabled it as a temporary workaround.

I am currently still running Ubuntu 10.04 (Mint9?) on my laptop due to this issue. Just thought I'd mention it in case you happen to be going crazy trying to use 802.11N.

Dana

[TBABill]

InProComm is not Intel. It's a Taiwan company's chipset for wireless LAN connectivity. It's actually Inprocomm, Inc.

[willie42]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042480

I dont know if this will work.....Just Suggesting I hope it does anyways

[ouaboa]

Hi,
Thanks to all of you for your solutions. I will try your different proposal and I'll keep you in touch if something works.
JS

[ouaboa]

Hi,
I followed the instructions posted on this tread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042480). The installation of ndiswrapper (already in my kernel) and the driver went well, but I'm not able to see my wireless connection even after configuration. Any suggestions...
JS

[rivenathos]

Have you rebooted your computer yet? That is the first thing that came to mind.

If you have:

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InProComm IPN 2220 chipset [17fe:2220] 

I looked at a few things in the posts above, as well as followed a link to http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper . I am just including this link due to there being some terminal commands which may or may not help.

As a last resort, you may consider something more Linux-friendly such as:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

I do wish you good luck.

[ouaboa]

Hi,
Yes I reboot the computer...nothing. Bellow you can see my kernel logs concerning ndiswrapper:

[ 1799.561451] ndiswrapper version 1.56 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 1799.620801] ndiswrapper: driver neti2220 (INPROCOMM,02/24/2005,3.07.02.2005) loaded
[ 1799.621027] ndiswrapper 0000:02:04.0: enabling device (011c -> 011f)
[ 1799.621037] ndiswrapper 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 1799.636846] ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:190): log: C000138A, count: 1, return_address: e02aadc1
[ 1799.636852] ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:193): code: 0x508
[ 1799.637340] ndiswrapper (mp_init:219): couldn't initialize device: 80010004
[ 1799.637348] ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:435): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
[ 1799.637360] ndiswrapper (mp_halt:262): device dc61c480 is not initialized - not halting
[ 1799.637363] ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
[ 1799.637382] ndiswrapper 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1799.637398] ndiswrapper: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -22
[ 1799.640685] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

Like you see ndiswrapper couldn't initialize my device...
JS

[ouaboa]

I will see the different links
thanks
JS