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RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8199] (rev 22) not working in Ubuntu

Asked by WilEEdEE

Wifi not working on Eee PC after updates

First of all, I'll have to issue a completely clueless newbie alert so you'll have to g-o s-l-o-w and assume nothing!!!

I installed 8.10 on my Eee701SD and everything worked great even on restart. After a few updates (only a few updates were found, downloaded and installed in the first instance) the Wifi stopped working.

I used the solution posted here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1019813.html

and it worked!! Then more updates ran the Wifi stopped working and I tried the same thing - but nothing happened. It still won't work.

Running lspci in terminal gives this result:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

iwconfig gives the following:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

Under System > Hardware Drivers there are no proprietary drivers.

Wired ethernet works perfectly.

Thanks for your time and I hope you can help!!!!

ED

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using a LAN cable.

Then please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (copy-paste each line below to the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo iwlist scanning
nm-tool
ifconfig
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -nn
lsusb
uname -a
dmesg | grep ound
dmesg | grep illswitch

Step 3: Post results (cut/paste terminal output from each command) here

Regards,

Mark

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WilEEdEE (office-freetipsplus) said : 		#2

Thanks Mark

Results are as follows:

sudo iwlist scanning

lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: ATL1E
  State: connected
  Default: yes
  HW Address: 00:23:54:23:30:4B

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes
    Carrier Detect: yes
    Speed: 100 Mb/s

  Wired Settings

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address: 192.168.2.6
    Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway: 192.168.2.1

    DNS: 192.168.2.1

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:54:23:30:4b
          inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::223:54ff:fe23:304b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:578 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:2
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:591247 (591.2 KB) TX bytes:63054 (63.0 KB)
          Interrupt:220

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:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2600 (2.6 KB) TX bytes:2600 (2.6 KB)

sudo lshw -C network

 *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: b0
       serial: 00:23:54:23:30:4b
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=ATL1E driverversion=1.0.0.7-NAPI duplex=full firmware=L1e ip=192.168.2.6 latency=0 link=yes module=atl1e multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 22
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 5e:88:0d:04:90:83
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes

lspci -nn

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: b0
       serial: 00:23:54:23:30:4b
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=ATL1E driverversion=1.0.0.7-NAPI duplex=full firmware=L1e ip=192.168.2.6 latency=0 link=yes module=atl1e multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 22
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 5e:88:0d:04:90:83
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
john@john-laptop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller [8086:2590] (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2792] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:2668] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2662] (rev 04)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2664] (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2641] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller [8086:2653] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:266a] (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8199] (rev 22)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1026] (rev b0)

lsusb

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 093a:2700 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:6335 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

uname -a

Linux john-laptop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

dmesg | grep ound

Linux john-laptop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
john@john-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep ound
[ 0.000000] AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] 000ff780
[ 0.922105] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 2.575511] pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.0: found MSI capability
[ 2.575939] pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.1: found MSI capability
[ 2.576833] pcieport-driver 0000:00:1c.2: found MSI capability
[ 2.931097] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 3.078489] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 5.037232] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.140909] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.244887] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.306890] No dock devices found.
[ 5.452886] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 5.688517] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.848380] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 12.454747] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH6-M TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0860)
[ 17.812430] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Digital_Camera (093a:2700)
[ 21.704887] lp: driver loaded but no devices found

dmesg | grep illswitch

Nothing seemed to happen with the above.

Look forward to your help!!

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Hi,

Open a Terminal and then enter the following commands to install the rtl8187se driver package:

wget http://boskastrona.ovh.org/download/linux-rtl8187se-modules-1023.2@2.6.27.11.14.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-rtl8187se-modules-1023.2@2.6.27.11.14.deb

After installing, reboot pc and retest wireless.

Be careful when choosing the right module version: The Linux kernel version and Realtek driver version have to be the same.

Please look at

http://boskastrona.ovh.org/index_en.html

for more info about the newest Realtek drivers.

Hope this is clear,

Regards,

Mark

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WilEEdEE (office-freetipsplus) said : 		#4

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.