i came back home after vacation, was able to connect with it (on Linux Mint 9), performed an update and after that it hasn't been working.
i tried a clean install with mint, ubuntu and pclinuxos - to no avail.
the networkmanager does not allow to "switch" 'Enable wireless' on.
when using wicd - there are no wireless networks.
unfortunately i do not have real programming/linux skills. changing screen resolution in xorg.conf and setting up ubuntu 2 years ago so that it has the right repositories, installing skype, etc was what i am capable of.
i would very much appreciate your help in bringing the wireless card back to life.
iwconfig:
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ptr@ptr-laptop ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
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ptr@ptr-laptop ~ $ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:f5:60:73:4d
inet addr:192.168.0.11 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:fe60:734d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:63192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:93646778 (93.6 MB) TX bytes:2648798 (2.6 MB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe400
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4320 (4.3 KB) TX bytes:4320 (4.3 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:15:af:17:7a:68
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:15:af:17:7a:68
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:60:73:4d
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:f5:60:73:4d
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.0.11 from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.11 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.11 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.11 -- renewal in 302178 seconds.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 62.179.1.63
Address: 62.179.1.63#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.105
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.106
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.147
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.99
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.104
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.135.103