Thanks for your help. I'm new to Mint. Love it so far.
I have an ASUS 1005hab. It has Atheros wireless. Works fine when connected wired. the wireless shows connected but i cant use it with the intenet. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002b (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"belkin.5ba"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 08:86:3B:74:B5:BA
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=61/70 Signal level=-49 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:98 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:18:37:8f:15
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe37:8f15/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1459 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:1272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1493267 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:177641 (177.6 KB)
Interrupt:45
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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:d3:0b:4e:18
inet addr:192.168.2.13 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:d3ff:fe0b:4e18/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:401 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:897054 (897.0 KB) TX bytes:63139 (63.1 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.98
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.100
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.101
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.102
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.110
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.96
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.225.97
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My ASUS is different than yours (U56E), and my wireless is Intel Centrino 6150, not Atheros like yours. (Correction: My ethernet network device is Atheros 1000M.) I am not a Linux coder (maybe someday ), so basically cannot decipher your terminal info at this point, but the following two links, w/ solutions, worked for my wireless issue, which was similar to yours. You can pull up these links, scan the solutions and even try. Then, do a search for your Atheros wireless at those same sites. The sites are Ubuntu-centric, which, of course, is the platform on which Mint is based.
Newbie with a request for help. I have ASUS eee 1005hab with atheros wlan and ehtenet adapters. Connects fine with eth. WLAN shows connected but can't use the internet. test results below. Can anyone help me with this?
I don't seem to have a file called ath9k.conf in that directory or any other directory. I do have ath9k.h and ath9k.ko. Is the absence of the .conf file possibly part of the problem?
Sorry last comment was foolish. I have now made the file ath9k with recommended text. I did a restart and the Internet is still showing connected but unable to use internet. Thank you for your help. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I really like Mint and want to be able to use it.
Also. I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with ralink 5370 thinking that might solve the problem. I installed the windows driver with ndiswrapper but I can't figure out how to connect with the ralink instead of the internal atheros. Any ideas about that?
I created the new file as you suggested. I did not delete the other file. After a restart, the same problem persists. I ran another diagnostic with results below. Seems to be a problem with DHCP? Any other suggestions? I really love linux mint and want to be able to use it.
You may need to install ndiswrapper-dkms from the repository (while connected to wired internet) for the wifi dongle to work.
I don't know why the Atheros card wouldn't work now. Maybe it helps to update the driver.
Here you can download the latest driver package: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... -26.tar.xz
Please unpack the file and go to the folder where you unpacked it. Please right-click there > open in terminal and run these commands:
I installed the driver update as you recommended. After a reboot, the same problems persist.
I do have the windows driver for the USB wifi adapter installed using NDIS wrapper. I just don't know how to select it in wicd. In the wicd preferences window, there is a section that allows the user to specify a wireless interface. Mine is currently set to wlan0. I don't know what to put there to change it to the usb wifi adapter through NDIS. the USB adapter says netr28u in NDISwrapper. I tried that but it didn't seem to work.
Still, I would prefer to get the atheros internal adapter working. I wonder if there is a problem with the DNS servers? I don't know how to diagnose that area. Any ideas about how to proceed down that path?
There is no other wifi adapter in iwconfig output, that's why wicd doesn't show it either. Are you sure you already have ndiswrapper-dkms installed? inxi -N didn't list ndiswrapper as driver for the dongle.
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V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
), so basically cannot decipher your terminal info at this point, but the following two links, w/ solutions, worked for my wireless issue, which was similar to yours. You can pull up these links, scan the solutions and even try. Then, do a search for your Atheros wireless at those same sites. The sites are Ubuntu-centric, which, of course, is the platform on which Mint is based.
