Internet connection with Ubuntu 10.04 in Toshiba U500-1F0

After a couple of tries, I got a connection, but the IP sent to me is a 10.42..43.1, which is really strange because my internal network (given by the router) is a 192.168.1.XX. And now I can't get an internet access! The behavior of the driver is really awkward!

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; ifconfig; sudo iwlist scan | head -n 20

The capabilities are hidden in your text because you failed to use sudo.

Sorry for capabilities missed... I just realized it after sending the message!

Here the output of the command above:

*-network

       description: Wireless interface

       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

       logical name: wlan0

       version: 10

       serial: 70:f1:a1:30:d9:3c

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xSE driverversion=0014.0115.2010 firmware=62 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=802.11bgn

       resources: irq:17 ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f4700000-f4703fff

  *-network

       description: Ethernet interface

       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0

       logical name: eth0

       version: 03

       serial: 00:1f:c6:f8:ab:11

       capacity: 1GB/s

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.018.00-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

       resources: irq:35 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:f4624000-f4624fff(prefetchable) memory:f4620000-f4623fff(prefetchable) memory:f4600000-f461ffff(prefetchable)

You missed:

ifconfig; sudo iwlist scan | head -n 20

Thanks

The rest of the ouput:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:f8:ab:11

          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:35 Base address:0xa000

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:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:5840 (5.8 KB) TX bytes:5840 (5.8 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:f1:a1:30:d9:3c

          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:17 Memory:f8130000-f8130100

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

Ok looks like your wifi isn't picking up a signal so I'm guessing the driver you have used is not correctly installed or you'd get something like this:

andy@D420:~$ sudo iwlist scan | head -n 20
[sudo] password for andy:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1C:10:A9:22:D2
                    Channel:11
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=70/70 Signal level=-36 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"**************"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=000000522d71d917
                    Extra: Last beacon: 4ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000443554E54
                    IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
                    IE: Unknown: 03010B
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 2F0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32040C121860

etc. I'd review your drivers.

Ok. My drivers come with Ubuntu 10.04, except the rtl8168, which comes from Realtek. I ran this command in my HP laptop, and the output is quite similar to yours.

sudo lsmod | grep r81
output:
r8168 91277 0
r8192se_pci 446468 0

Anyway, none of the drivers seem to work. The problem is that, what are the drivers?

Wait you lost me, if you run the command:

sudo iwlist scan

You see wireless acess points?

I sent it right after the first output. Sorry for the broken output, it is because I have no internet in my computer, so I have to copy in a pen from there to here. No scans, no access points detected!

If I want to try to connect, I have to configure my access point as hidden in NetworkManager!

After thousands of tries, I can get to connect once. For one time, I could connect for 10 secs, and then failed again.

after it disconnects run:

dmesg | tail -n 20

What is output?

Connection is a matter of luck here. After trying thousand times, with fixed IP, automatic dhcp, sudo ifdown/up wlan0... no success.

Anyway, even without connecting, the output of the command is this:

[ 2829.284579] ----------->rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2829.284583] FW Scan long time without stop, stop hw scan

[ 2829.285583] <-----------rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2834.405697] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1

[ 2838.546234] GPIOChangeRF - HW Radio OFF

[ 2838.546242] -------------->rtl8192se_cancel_hw_scan()scan abort start...

[ 2840.552624] GPIOChangeRF - HW Radio ON, RF ON

[ 2840.670141] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1

[ 2855.435936] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1

[ 2862.444338] ----------->rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2862.444342] FW Scan long time without stop, stop hw scan

[ 2862.445342] <-----------rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2867.568737] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1

[ 2874.576061] ----------->rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2874.576065] FW Scan long time without stop, stop hw scan

[ 2874.577066] <-----------rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2879.698196] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:10, bEnableHT = 1

[ 2886.704084] ----------->rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

[ 2886.704088] FW Scan long time without stop, stop hw scan

[ 2886.705088] <-----------rtl8192se_check_hw_scan()

One more thing: the card is perfect under Windows!

What windows does and doesn't do is completely moot. It is a different OS with different support so is of no interest.

Use the web to see if you can find any guides or bugs relating to the outputs.

This answer was very uneducated. I provided the last information to prove (if you thought a little bit) that there is no physical problem with my card. If this is the kind of information that ubuntu team provides... gosh!

No its of no information. Thats like saying if you didn't have windows we have no way of knowing if the card is faulty or not which is preposterous. If the card worked in Redhat or Puppy then that is interesting as both Ubuntu and redhat are Linux which would make an interesting scenario and we can probe the other OS for the settings it uses to transfer to Ubuntu.

Ok... but I don't have this scenario. For me, doesn't matter the OS, I use Linux for a long time, I don't have this kind of OS shit. What it is important is the solution of my problem. This is the last answer for you, because I won't waste my time anymore with you!

You asked me obvious things, proposed me obvious thing, and didn't help me at all... So take this Linux/windows shit out of the conversation and try to give a focus in your life!

Subject closed!

Could drop the native driver and use ndisgtk + windows driver

Might be a bit more stable.

Just rememer who brougt Windows into the conversatio initially. ndisgtk may just be the tocket tough, make sure you get the XP32 bit driver if your Ubuntu install is 32bit and XP64bit if your Ubuntu install is 64bit

Now, we are being more productive! I was thinking of doing this, but without courage to accomplish! Since it is a fresh install... Anyway, after reading in some forums, I think it is better trying win2k driver: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/401126

I will try it, and post the results here, later!

Let us know how you get on.

At this point, I got the 8168B win2k driver from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/401126, and, with ndisgtk, I got my wireless up and working. Side effect: I got my eth0 disappeared! But, at least, I have internet connection now.

Glad you got the gold. ndisgtk is a good fall back but isnt ideal.