UNCLAIMED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002c] (rev 01) not working on Asus Eee PC 1005P in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 LTS

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

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

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

Tip: If you have a wheel mouse or 3 button mouse you do not need to type commands into the Terminal. Highlight the command written on the page. Move your cursor anywhere in the Terminal and press the wheel or middle button. Automatic Copy and paste! No spelling mistakes! No Typos! No other errors!

sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread. The troubleshooters here need to see the full Terminal output from running the above command.

Regards,

Mark

[sudo] password for simeon:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_PH
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_PH
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_PH
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_PH
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_PH
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_PH
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_PH
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_PH
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_PH
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_PH
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_PH
Ign http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_PH
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Atheros Communications Inc.
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fbff0000-fbffffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c0
       serial: e0:cb:4e:92:5c:aa
       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=atl1c driverversion=1.0.0.1-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:29 memory:f7fc0000-f7ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128)
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:002c] (rev 01)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 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 002: ID 13d3:5111 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                                  system 1005P
/0 bus 1005P
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
/0/4/5 memory 24KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/4/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/4/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/15 memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/15/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/15/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/100 bridge N10 Family DMI Bridge
/0/100/2 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 network Atheros Communications Inc.
/0/100/1c.3 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4
/0/100/1c.3/0 eth0 network Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge NM10 Family LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 320GB ST9320325AS
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 295GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 2906MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 2906MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
Linux sims-laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00ff780] ff780
[ 0.188880] ACPI: EC: EC description table is found, configuring boot EC
[ 0.234955] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.284152] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.294689] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 0.365749] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.370852] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.379774] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.411531] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
[ 0.512603] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.513551] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.514245] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.514980] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.515735] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.649784] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.649794] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.668815] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.812686] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.465522] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.IDE1.PRT0._GTF: Return type mismatch - found Integer, expected Buffer (20090903/nspredef-1006)
[ 10.106754] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 10.856916] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam (13d3:5111)
[ 11.871168] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x37
[ 12.032869] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 12.203665] atl1c 0000:01:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 12.204200] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 22.417050] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
sudo: hwinfo: command not found
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
                                                                                                                      [ OK ]

Ok your wireless device has an ip: ip=192.168.1.2 is in the output above.

You also have software centre running, updates are installig or the apt frontend crashed and has not unlocked the packages. If the packages are locked then run:

sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg --configure -a

If you run:

gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

delete ALL the text and add these 2 lines:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Save the new file, close gedit and all browsers then try browsing the web. If it's ok we can make the change permanent.

simeon@sims-laptop:~$ sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for simeon:
                     USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/var/lib/dpkg/lock: root 1502 F.... synaptic
Kill process 1502 ? (y/N)

What will I do with this?

Press Y, that process is tying up the packages which is why your packages are rporting as locked.

I did the 3 commands and after reboot i tried wireless and it works now.
thanks for the help. I'll message again if problems come out. More power!

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.