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Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:33 am
by flanna
AlbertP wrote:Perhaps you can edit the file /etc/rc.local and add: rfkill unblock all (before the line that reads exit 0).
This has worked for the most part. I still get a problem if the laptop enters sleep mode. When I bring it out of sleep mode there is no wifi. Also the code "frkill unblock all" (as SU) has no effect. I have to reboot the system.
Any suggestions?
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:20 am
by chili555
Often it is the case that the wireless driver drops when the laptop goes to sleep/hibernate/cryofreeze. Let's identify your driver and write one file to see if we can reload it on wake-up. Please post:
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:38 am
by flanna
chili555 wrote:Often it is the case that the wireless driver drops when the laptop goes to sleep/hibernate/cryofreeze. Let's identify your driver and write one file to see if we can reload it on wake-up. Please post:
OK here it is...
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ThinkPad-X121e ~/Desktop $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 12798 0
ses 17321 0
enclosure 15217 1 ses
usb_storage 53538 0
uas 17996 0
cryptd 20510 0
aes_x86_64 17208 1
aes_generic 38279 1 aes_x86_64
rfcomm 47694 8
sco 18131 2
bnep 18308 2
l2cap 53570 16 rfcomm,bnep
binfmt_misc 17565 1
vboxnetadp 13340 0
vboxnetflt 28297 0
vboxdrv 252684 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
parport_pc 36959 0
ppdev 17113 0
dm_crypt 22993 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28103 1
snd_hda_codec_conexant 57511 1
snd_hda_intel 33211 2
uvcvideo 72195 0
thinkpad_acpi 81587 0
cdc_wdm 17506 0
snd_hda_codec 103804 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
arc4 12529 2
snd_hwdep 13604 1 snd_hda_codec
videodev 82052 1 uvcvideo
snd_pcm 96625 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
joydev 17606 0
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17078 1 videodev
btusb 18600 2
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
cdc_ncm 17501 0
snd_rawmidi 30486 1 snd_seq_midi
usbnet 26165 1 cdc_ncm
bluetooth 72448 9 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
cdc_acm 22574 0
iwlagn 333500 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61621 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
iwlcore 167503 1 iwlagn
snd_timer 29602 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14462 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
mac80211 294370 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
tpm_tis 18537 0
snd 67382 15 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,thinkpad_acpi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
psmouse 73535 0
serio_raw 13166 0
rts_pstor 440614 0
cfg80211 178528 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
tpm 22267 1 tpm_tis
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
tpm_bios 13684 1 tpm
soundcore 12680 1 snd
nvram 14419 1 thinkpad_acpi
lp 17825 0
parport 46458 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
i915 514985 4
drm_kms_helper 42136 1 i915
drm 227495 5 i915,drm_kms_helper
ahci 25951 2
i2c_algo_bit 13400 1 i915
video 19438 1 i915
dm_raid45 77827 0
libahci 26642 1 ahci
atl1c 41171 0
xor 12890 1 dm_raid45
btrfs 550402 0
zlib_deflate 27074 1 btrfs
libcrc32c 12644 1 btrfs
ThinkPad-X121e ~/Desktop $
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:38 am
by AlbertP
chili555 & flanna:
The cause is already identified. It is the thinkpad_acpi module (thinkpad-acpi driver) which disables the wireless in rfkill.
Unfortunately we can't blacklist thinkpad_acpi, as that will also leave flanna unable to control the screen brightness and volume, use the Fn-Fx key combinations and a lot of other ACPI features. Here's some general information about thinkpad-acpi:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/Docum ... d-acpi.txt
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:57 am
by chili555
AlbertP wrote:chili555 & flanna:
The cause is already identified. It is the thinkpad_acpi module (thinkpad-acpi driver) which disables the wireless in rfkill.
Unfortunately we can't blacklist thinkpad_acpi, as that will also leave flanna unable to control the screen brightness and volume, use the Fn-Fx key combinations and a lot of other ACPI features. Here's some general information about thinkpad-acpi:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/Docum ... d-acpi.txt
Which is it, flanna? When you resume from suspend, is rfkill soft-blocked or is iwlagn not loaded?
After suspend:
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:00 am
by AlbertP
rfkill is hard blocked when waking up. That's the problem. The IWL driver is working OK. (EDIT: it seems like this wasn't correct)
flanna: Are you sure the wifi on/off switch/button/key can't turn your wifi back on after resume?
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:04 am
by chili555
From the link you posted:
0x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
the internal Bluetooth hardware
and W-WAN card if left in control
of the firmware. Does not affect
the WLAN card.
Interesting.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:12 am
by AlbertP
flanna, please run rfkill list again, immediately after resume, before trying to turn on the wireless.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm
by flanna
AlbertP wrote:flanna, please run rfkill list again, immediately after resume, before trying to turn on the wireless.
Here it is...
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hinkPad-X121e ~/Desktop $ rfkill list
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
3: tpacpi_wwan_sw: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
ThinkPad-X121e ~/Desktop $
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:42 pm
by AlbertP
Now phy0 is hard blocked. That means, that you have to use the wifi on/off switch to get it working. If that switch doesn't turn it on, I think it's a hardware problem.
chili555 just pointed out that Wireless WAN is not related to Wireless LAN. But still there is a switch, button or key turning off the WLAN as it reports to be hard blocked.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:19 am
by aarroonnss
Hello, my wlan also has given up on my lenova ideapad s12, i tried the things I coud find around the forum so far but it's still not working.
sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:off
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
vboxnet0 no wireless extensions.
-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:26:2d:f8:f9:ed
inet Adresse:139.18.185.208 Bcast:139.18.185.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
inet6-Adresse: fe80::226:2dff:fef8:f9ed/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrik:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:448 (448.0 B) TX bytes:17921 (17.9 KB)
Interrupt:20
lo Link encap:Lokale Schleife
inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0
inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metrik:1
RX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
RX bytes:3526 (3.5 KB) TX bytes:3526 (3.5 KB)
-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
-------------------------
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.106
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.43.147
sudo modprobe b43
sudo modprobe wl
dmesg | grep -e wl -e b43
[ 15.777806] wl 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[L1E4] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 15.777828] wl 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
rfkill list all
sudo rfkill unblock all
rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
(rebooting...=
rfkill list all
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
sudo rfkill unblock all
rfkill list all
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lsmod | grep b43
dmesg | grep b43
(nothing)
I also reinstalled the additional drivers but it did not make any difference. Please help.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:21 am
by aarroonnss
Btw: I am using Linux Mint 11.
The wlan- Button on the side of the netbook is switched to on. In Bios the wlan is also turned to on.
I had the same problem a few years ago, there it helped to start with windows and there I could activate the wlan,
so it also runs in Linux again. This maybe help somone else.
I have no windows anymore on my netbook so this option isn't there fo me anymore.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:49 am
by AlbertP
Please uninstall the STA driver (aka wl), reboot, and install the B43 driver (apt install b43-fwcutter).
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:50 am
by jacknocturne
AlbertP wrote:Please uninstall the STA driver (aka wl), reboot, and install the B43 driver (apt install b43-fwcutter).
Hello, similar problem to aarroonnss, setup similar. Wireless works on windows but not on Linux mint 11.
After installing b43-fwcutter as you recommended above, network-manager applet reports firmware missing.
Is this a general problem or a recent upgrade makes it not work?
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:58 pm
by AlbertP
Firmware missing means usually that b43-fwcutter is not installed. If it still does not work with b43-fwcutter installed properly, please install firmware-b43-installer as well. And please use terminal so that we can see it when something goes wrong:
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apt install firmware-b43-installer
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:12 am
by jacknocturne
Thanks for the reply. I uninstalled and installed again, here is the output
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
debhelper module-assistant quilt po-debconf libmail-sendmail-perl html2text
libsys-hostname-long-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/18.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 131 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package b43-fwcutter.
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(Reading database ... 172220 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a013-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package firmware-b43-installer.
Unpacking firmware-b43-installer (from .../firmware-b43-installer_4.150.10.5-5_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:013-3) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-installer (4.150.10.5-5) ...
--2011-10-25 16:05:05-- http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
Resolving mirror2.openwrt.org... 46.4.11.11
Connecting to mirror2.openwrt.org|46.4.11.11|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3888794 (3.7M) [application/x-bzip2]
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2011-10-25 16:05:10 (781 KB/s) - `broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2' saved [3888794/3888794]
This file is recognised as:
ID : FW13
filename : wl_apsta_mimo.o
version : 410.2160
MD5 : cb8d70972b885b1f8883b943c0261a3c
Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
Extracting b43/ucode14.fw
Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43/ucode9.fw
Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
After that i rebooted, and checked ,nothing has changed. It does not show that even the wireless card exists.
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~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:22 am
by AlbertP
I think the STA driver is not properly uninstalled - it still seems to blacklist the b43 driver.
The easiest way to get rid of this is by removing the file completely:
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sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:28 pm
by jacknocturne
Wow that worked like a charm
A million thanks mate
Now i can view and access wireless networks.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:38 am
by aarroonnss
AlbertP wrote:Firmware missing means usually that b43-fwcutter is not installed. If it still does not work with b43-fwcutter installed properly, please install firmware-b43-installer as well. And please use terminal so that we can see it when something goes wrong:
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apt install firmware-b43-installer
Hi,
here is my terminal text:
sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig
firmware-b43-installer ist schon die neueste Version.
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 18 nicht aktualisiert.
seems to be allright
Edit:
Still not working.
Re: Wireless Not Enabled
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:27 pm
by AlbertP
Last week someone posted on the forum that installing firmware-b43-lpphy-installer helps to get the BCM4312 (14e4:4315) working. And mintwifi shows you're having that card.