SOLVED After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

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SOLVED After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

Post by thigo »

I tried several times to install linux Mint 19.3 and I got the same trouble ! no wifi connection.
here under the result of the command

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syssi@si5:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: si5 Kernel: 4.8.0-53-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 5.4.0
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
           Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Packard Bell product: EasyNote LS11HR v: V1.14 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Packard Bell model: SJV70_HR serial: N/A
           BIOS: Packard Bell v: V1.14 date: 09/07/2011
Battery    BAT0: charge: 19.1 Wh 65.0% condition: 29.5/47.5 Wh (62%)
           model: SANYO Li_Ion_4000mA status: Discharging
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5-2430M (-MT-MCP-) 
           arch: Sandy Bridge rev.7 cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9578
           clock speeds: max: 3000 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 805 MHz 3: 804 MHz
           4: 866 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting,ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1600x900@60.08hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile
           version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Def. Audio Controller
           bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
           driver: atl1c port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A[/b]
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (4.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHY2250B size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD5000BPVT size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 140G used: 23G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb6
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
           fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb8
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: No active sensors found. Have you configured your sensors yet? mobo: N/A gpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 205 Uptime: 3 min Memory: 663.0/5820.2MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56 
syssi@si5:~$
I looked in the forum but i didn't see nothing which can help me.
If you have any ideas I will be interested. Thanks a lot
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Re: After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

Post by JeremyB »

Why are you using a 4.8 kernel? They have been unsupported from Ubuntu for about a year
thigo

Re: After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

Post by thigo »

hello JeremyB ,

I loaded the iso file from https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=254 country France site Crifo.org.

after your response I loaded a new file iso from country Usa Havard school of Engineering and I got the same answer after the installation. Every time i verified the ISo file.

Something strange for me , during the installation process I could connect to my Box in wifi mode until the end of this installation. After the reboot no way to connect in wifi mode.
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Re: After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

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Install updates after installing as for some reason the wifi module doesn't appear to load. You could try

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sudo modprobe -v ath9k
See if there are any errors
thigo

Re: After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

Post by thigo »

Result of the command

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syssi@si5:~$ sudo modprobe -v ath9k
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.8.0-53-generic/modules.dep.bin'
modprobe: FATAL: Module ath9k not found in directory /lib/modules/4.8.0-53-generic
thigo

Re: After installation of Mint 19.3 no Wifi available

Post by thigo »

I did update of the very last version of the kernel and wifi connection is up.

syssi@si5:~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: si5 Kernel: 4.19.0-041900-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 8.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: Packard Bell product: EasyNote LS11HR v: V1.14 serial: N/A

Thanks for your help
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