Configuring Toshiba notebook satellite A215-S4767

If someone got more drivers for this notebook, or any note related to this, please, help me too.

I have forgot to inform that my Ubuntu release is 7.10 x86_64

Jutay Medeiros

Could you paste here the result of running the "lspci" command in the terminal? This will tell us precisely what hardware and what revisions you have installed.

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
1a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
1a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
1a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
1a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

This is the result!!

Thanks for your contact

Ok, let's start with the wireless network adapter. Usually, the Atheros card should work very well with some restricted drivers installed. Have you tried running the Restricted Drivers Manager in System/Administration? If this doesn't work, try the command sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

For the rest, we'd also need you to paste here the result of the lsusb and lsmod commands (if any of the devices you have issues with need to be plugged, plug them in before running the commands).

Hi,
i have executed the Restricted Drivers Managers, but it jus showed me the ATI related drivers. I tried to execute de "apt-get ..." as you suggested, but the result is:

# apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22-14-generic is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libsm-dev libice-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev comerr-dev libxfixes-dev
  libgl1-mesa-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev x11proto-render-dev
  libxi-dev libkrb5-dev libfontconfig1-dev liblcms1-dev x11proto-kb-dev
  x11proto-randr-dev libxinerama-dev libglu1-xorg-dev mesa-common-dev
  xtrans-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev libssl-dev libxt-dev libxmu-dev libxext-dev libglib2.0-dev
  libfreetype6-dev libxau-dev libaudio-dev libpq-dev libkadm55 libxmu-headers
  libxrender-dev libxft-dev libx11-dev libmng-dev libsqlite0-dev libjpeg62-dev
  x11proto-core-dev libxdmcp-dev libxcursor-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Again the LSPCI (now with the wireless key switched):
~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
1a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
1a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
1a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
1a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

LSUSB result:

# lsusb
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 15d9:0a33
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

LSMOD result:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 8192 1
isofs 39268 1
udf 90024 0
fglrx 765588 11
af_packet 28172 2
rfcomm 47656 2
l2cap 28672 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 63876 4 rfcomm,l2cap
usbhid 32576 0
hid 33408 1 usbhid
ppdev 11272 0
ipv6 317192 12
powernow_k8 16608 1
cpufreq_powersave 3072 0
cpufreq_stats 8160 0
cpufreq_conservative 9608 0
cpufreq_userspace 6048 0
cpufreq_ondemand 10896 1
freq_table 6464 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
container 6400 0
button 10400 0
dock 12264 0
battery 12424 0
sbs 21520 0
ac 7304 0
video 21140 0
sbp2 27144 0
parport_pc 41896 0
lp 15048 0
parport 44172 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
joydev 13440 0
snd_hda_intel 337192 1
snd_pcm_oss 50048 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 94344 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 5380 0
uvcvideo 52228 0
snd_seq_oss 36864 0
snd_seq_midi 11008 0
compat_ioctl32 11136 1 uvcvideo
pcmcia 46232 0
snd_rawmidi 29824 1 snd_seq_midi
videodev 31360 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15364 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common 21888 3 uvcvideo,compat_ioctl32,videodev
sdhci 21004 0
pcspkr 4608 0
mmc_core 33416 1 sdhci
snd_seq_midi_event 9984 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
ath_pci 105392 0
wlan 225736 1 ath_pci
yenta_socket 30220 1
rsrc_nonstatic 14208 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 46628 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_seq 62496 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
serio_raw 9092 0
psmouse 45596 0
tifm_7xx1 9856 0
tifm_core 13448 1 tifm_7xx1
ath_hal 219888 1 ath_pci
snd_timer 27272 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 10260 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
k8temp 7680 0
snd 69288 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10272 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12560 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_piix4 11020 0
i2c_core 30208 1 i2c_piix4
shpchp 38300 0
pci_hotplug 36612 1 shpchp
evdev 13056 5
ext3 146576 1
jbd 69360 1 ext3
mbcache 11272 1 ext3
ide_cd 35488 1
cdrom 41768 1 ide_cd
sg 41384 0
sd_mod 32512 3
ata_generic 9988 0
ahci 27012 2
r8169 36100 0
ehci_hcd 40076 0
ohci1394 38984 0
ieee1394 109528 2 sbp2,ohci1394
libata 138928 2 ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod 172856 4 sbp2,sg,sd_mod,libata
atiixp 7824 0 [permanent]
ide_core 141200 2 ide_cd,atiixp
ohci_hcd 25092 0
usbcore 161584 5 usbhid,uvcvideo,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
thermal 16528 0
processor 36232 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 6920 0
fuse 52528 1
apparmor 47008 0
commoncap 9472 1 apparmor

Thanks for your contact again.

Hi,
i wanto correct my last assessment:
"I can see in Restricted Drivers Manager the reference to the Atheros hardware, and it is enabled too in my notebook. But i am not able to access any wireless network, and i can't see the wireless option in network-admin. Even executing the iwconfig, the result is:

:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Waiting ....

Sorry for not coming back to you on this sooner.

For the wireless, try following the instructions there: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=485579

It shouldn't have been necessary, but if your issue wasn't resolved by the restricted-modules manager, this might do it.

For the rest of the hardware, I am afraid I don't know anything about them. You might wanna search the ubuntu forums for people with the same hardware as you do.

Good luck!