No wired connection, Tobsihi Satellite R830-14 Mint 11 Katya

[airper]

Hi folks,

looking for some help with Internet Connections on a new Toshiba laptop. I just can't get either the wired or wireless connections to complete and connect. Here's the basics and what I've tried far.

Toshiba Satellite R830-145
Intel HM65 chipset
Hard Drive 640Gb
Ethernet Controller is Intel 82579v
Wireless is Atheros AR9285

[remoulder]

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=33561 & http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1085

[airper]

Talking in two places about the same thing, sorry will continue here only

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

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=17 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

ppp0 no wireless extensions.

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e8:9d:87:eb:5f:28
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:188.29.29.118 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4400 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:5900223 (5.9 MB) TX bytes:552714 (552.7 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:df:9a:22:c4:06
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)

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* V. querying DHCP...
-------------------------
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 217.171.135.1
Address: 217.171.135.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.143.104
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.143.99

[lmintnewb]

Try running a search for Atheros AR9285 in the minty search bar. I did .. bunch of stuff came up. One that looked interesting.

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=77447&p=450447&hilit=Atheros+AR9285#p450447

Can't really think what to suggest. May want to dig around in bios too and see what's enabled/disabled in there. Are you even sure you activated wireless networking ? The wifi ... ok sorta understandable. For a hard wired connection not to be working. Esp with hardware you'd taken pains to ensure was nix friendly ... doesn't make as much sense. You can tell by my nickname here that I am not a linux guru.

[airper]

lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0005]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 47
Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at c4824000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1503] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40
Region 0: Memory at c4800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 1: Memory at c482a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 2: I/O ports at 3060 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at c4829000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48
Region 0: Memory at c4820000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: c4700000-c47fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1c12] (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: c2700000-c46fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0400000-00000000c23fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1c14] (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: c2600000-c26fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:1c18] (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: c2500000-c25fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:1c1a] (rev b4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: c2400000-c24fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000afb00000-00000000afcfffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev b4) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26] (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23
Region 0: Memory at c4828000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller [8086:1c49] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 46
Region 0: I/O ports at 3088 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 309c [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at 3080 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 3098 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at 3040 [size=32]
Region 5: Memory at c4827000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci

01:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e823] (rev 04) (prog-if 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at c4700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6613]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at c2600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

05:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at c2500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel modules: xhci-hcd

[lmintnewb]

Some other stuff to consider.

viewtopic.php?f=150&t=49808
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/networ ... works.html

aka: Which connection is set to default. Would think the eth0 would be ... For you is it ? Would disable the wireless connection and focus on one problem at a time. It's hard ( for me, more like impossible to know what's going on, on your end.) Well ... can only say good luck. Wondering if you have whichever network management settings messed up here. The wireless probs ... ok, well not ok and more than likely a fix for sure. But a hard wired connection not working ? With hardware you'd specifically checked to be more nix friendly ? Doesn't sound quite right to me.

[airper]

Thanks lmintnewb,

I'll take a look at these this morning and have a good read. The Network Manager settings are okay I think, I've checked them against another laptop which is working okay on the router, I'm fortunate having more than one machine which is working okay. I think it is a problem with the handshaking between the laptop and the router and whether it can interpret the WPA security properly. Both the wired and wireless look to be getting that far, but can't establish a valid IP address to communicate with.

I know WPA/WPA2 security has caused issues in the past with Atheros cards and my reasoning for progressing both is that I think the problem is related to both wired and wireless connections. I have a ethernet LAN at work (Windose environment), but it is secure so I can't log this machine into it. However, it does appear to pick up the connection (I get the double arrows in the system tray) so it looks like it's made the link, however at home on the router, it just times out.

I thought about the BIOS, but if the settings are okay for Windose I was struggling to see how they would not work for Linux?

it really is being very frustrating, I'm sure the answer is simple I just can't seem to stumble across it.

will read and then post some more.

Thanks

[airper]

Hi lmintnewb,

Thanks for the links, but I've already found them before and tried them without success, I think my problem is deeper than this, something to do with the handshaking between the router and computer. I'll post some more output scripts and see if anyone can assist.

[lmintnewb]

One more babbling post then gonna have to throw in the towel here.

You're confusing me, or I'm confusing me ... or both are confusing me, lol. Let's start at the beginning eh. As good a place as any me thinks.

Think remoulder said it right in this mess. Delete all things nix and start over fresh. You did or didn't try the comp out on live session before installing it ? It did or didn't at least pick up on the wired connection when you did or didn't try it in live session ? Don't have Mint 10 installed anymore, but could swear it specifically asks for a few things you should have before proceeding with an installation. One of those I believe is having your comp connected to the internet. W/o an internet connection ( or one that wasn't working ) wondering how you installed, or expected the install to be successful in the first place ?

What a hard wired connection has to do with WAP ( a wireless protocal ) I'm missing too. No worries, no matter what happens at least it has win7 working. So not like it's a paper weight, shrugs.

[airper]

Here is the output from lspci -nn

lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1503] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1c12] (rev b4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1c14] (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:1c18] (rev b4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:1c1a] (rev b4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller [8086:1c49] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 04)
01:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e823] (rev 04)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
05:00.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller [1033:0194] (rev 04)


and ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e8:9d:87:eb:5f:28
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB) TX bytes:1440 (1.4 KB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:188.29.29.118 P-t-P:10.64.64.64 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12984 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11097 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:13952680 (13.9 MB) TX bytes:1545128 (1.5 MB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:df:9a:22:c4:06
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)

and iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=17 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

and lsmod

Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 12990 0
bsd_comp 12913 0
ppp_async 17540 1
crc_ccitt 12667 1 ppp_async
option 25285 2
usb_wwan 20407 1 option
usbserial 42908 7 option,usb_wwan
usb_storage 53538 0
uas 17996 0
binfmt_misc 17565 1
sco 18131 2
bnep 18308 2
l2cap 53570 3 bnep
btusb 18600 0
bluetooth 72448 6 sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
parport_pc 36959 0
ppdev 17113 0
dm_crypt 22993 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28103 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 336693 1
snd_hda_intel 33211 2
arc4 12529 2
snd_hda_codec 103804 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13604 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 96625 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30486 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
ath9k 118238 0
snd_seq 61621 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
uvcvideo 72195 0
videodev 82052 1 uvcvideo
mac80211 294370 1 ath9k
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17078 1 videodev
snd_timer 29602 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14462 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 67382 14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
ath9k_common 13851 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 323077 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 23773 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
psmouse 73535 0
joydev 17606 0
serio_raw 13166 0
cfg80211 178528 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
toshiba_bluetooth 12807 0
soundcore 12680 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
toshiba_acpi 14180 0
sparse_keymap 13898 1 toshiba_acpi
lp 17825 0
parport 46458 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
dm_raid45 77827 0
xor 12890 1 dm_raid45
btrfs 550402 0
zlib_deflate 27074 2 ppp_deflate,btrfs
libcrc32c 12644 1 btrfs
usbhid 46956 0
hid 91020 1 usbhid
i915 514985 3
drm_kms_helper 42136 1 i915
ahci 25951 2
drm 227495 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
e1000e 159096 0
libahci 26642 1 ahci
xhci_hcd 77643 0
i2c_algo_bit 13400 1 i915
video 19438 1 i915
sdhci_pci 13989 0
sdhci 27387 1 sdhci_pci


rfkill list all

0: Toshiba Bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Not sure what else to post that might help with this. I just can't see anything much wrong here. Cards are recognised, drivers and load and assigned correctly, modules are listed, rfkill list is clear.

I really am stuck

[airper]

Okay questions and answer

it is a fresh install no modifications Mint 11, new iso copy, 64bit version

You did or didn't try the comp out on live session before installing it ? Yes, but could not establish a wired or wireless connection, Also I've run live CD's with Mint 11, Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04 none would connect

It did or didn't at least pick up on the wired connection when you did or didn't try it in live session ? No not wired or wireless

Don't have Mint 10 installed anymore, but could swear it specifically asks for a few things you should have before proceeding with an installation. One of those I believe is having your comp connected to the internet. W/o an internet connection ( or one that wasn't working ) wondering how you installed, or expected the install to be successful in the first place ? I used a 3G dongle which is the only kind of connection I can get working at present

What a hard wired connection has to do with WAP ( a wireless protocal ) I'm missing too. No worries, no matter what happens at least it has win7 working. So not like it's a paper weight, shrugs. Yep I understand WAP is wireless, it's just that both wired and wireless seem to timing out in a similar fashion i.e they both don't seem to able to pick up a valid IP address from the router. I too and very surprised I cannot get a wired connection to run.

lmintnewb
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[airper]

Okay guys,

I've read thru all these posts again and they are indeed a mess, thanks for persisting with me given the confusion I've created here.

So, I'll clean up the hard drive as suggested, delete all the Mint partitions and do a complete re-install. Then I will separate the two Internet connection issues, wired and wireless as two threads, posting what I know and what I've done for each. Hopefully then I will have made enough sense for someone to help.

Thanks guys, let me try this again with some order to things. I really don't want to give up on Linux, I'm not ready for Windows again quite yet.

Thanks for you patience this morning guys, I'll try and do better.