No network access

[hsm1]

Hi there,

I just installed LMDE 32bit in a dual boot along side windows 7. My problem is that I am unable to connect to the internet, both wired and wireless. When I plug in the Ethernet cable nothing happens. In the bottom right of the cable screen under the network icon it says disconnected.

I have a toshiba l650 laptop. The hardware listed under windows 7 says I have a Broadcom 802.11n wireless adapter and a Atheros AR8152 PCI-e Fast Ethernet Controller. I use wireless 99% of the time so that's what is important. Do I need to install drivers? I've looked under network setting but to be honest I'm new to Linux and not to sure what to do. Any help would be great thanks.

Hugo.

[hsm1]

Anyone?

[hsm1]

from looking around I ran the lshw command and sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py

With lshw it says that the package is not installed and sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py says command not found.

The thing is, because I have no internet connection I can't update my system?

[DrHu]

I don't know what mintwifi is for, usually to get connected to a network, it will be network manager application that is used, this is a GUI (netman, on the console), but the GUI provides enough info to work with for most cards (if detected), if not detected, check setup for card/networks/internet and basic troubleshooting

The idea is similar to windows OS
--if a network is not detected, you will likely have to update the OS in some way or install a specific network driver for that card..

Did a quick check, Mintwifi..
http://mentoliptus.blogspot.ca/2008/03/ ... howto.html
--could be a little out of date, madwifi used to be very popular for driver files; now Linux distributions tend to include any that were missing that madwifi provided..

Atheros chipet + Mintwifi package/script..
search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=atheros+mintwifi

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... sSupported
--you may have to play around with some of the wireless configuration commands to see wireless status

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ifconfig
--general network card info
iwconfig
--ifconfig specifically for wireless, lets you change more settings on the card..
iwlist wlan0 scanning
--check available networks; assuming that the wireless card wlan0 (wireless card) is detected..

The inxi -N command or inxi -F, in a terminal will give you moire human readable information than the lshw command, unless you are knowledgeable about what is being shown

And I assume, since it multi-boots (dual-boots) that win 7 sees the wireless OK
--there is always a choice of using ndiswrapper options (using the windows wireless driver under Linux)

Wireless cards, setting up, checking/testing or troubleshooting items..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs

[hsm1]

Great thanks, I'll have a read and play through all of that. Thanks a lot for your help.

Another thing i'll ask, will probably sound stupid, but how do I connect to a wireless network(just make sure I was trying it the right way)?
When I click the icon in the bottom right it says disconnected and doesn't even give an option for wireless.

[äxl]

Content of python program /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py:

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# MintWifi
#   No Copyright (What for?) Clem <root@linuxmint.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; Version 2
# of the License.

try:
   import os
   import commands
   import sys
   import string
except Exception, detail:
   print detail
   pass

# checking the card type
print("-------------------------")
print("* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...")
os.system("lspci | grep \"Network controller\" > /tmp/detected_wireless_devices")
devices_file = open("/tmp/detected_wireless_devices")
for device_item in devices_file.readlines():
   deviceArray = device_item.split()
   device = ' '.join(deviceArray[3:])
   pci_id_line = commands.getoutput("lspci -n | grep " + deviceArray[0])
   pci_id_array = pci_id_line.split()
   pci_id = ' '.join(pci_id_array[2:])   
   print "  -- " + device
   print "      ==> PCI ID = " + pci_id   
print("-------------------------")
print("* II. querying ndiswrapper...")
os.system("ndiswrapper -l")   
print("-------------------------")
print("* III. querying iwconfig...")
os.system("iwconfig")
print("-------------------------")
print("* IV. querying ifconfig...")
os.system("ifconfig")
print("-------------------------")
print("* V. querying DHCP...")
os.system("sudo dhclient")
print("-------------------------")
print("* VI. querying nslookup google.com...")
os.system("nslookup google.com")


It's basically looking for wireless devices and calling ndiswrapper:

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sudo python /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py