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Wifi with new Ubuntu install

Asked by Sanford Schimel

I just install Ubuntu on my desktop PC (Intel Pentium 4 chip, 2.8 ghz). I don't have a wifi card installed on the pc but I'm using a Netgear WNA3100 USB adapter. How do I enable the adapter? I tried placing the downloaded firmware into the /lib/firmware folder, but it was already there. Thanks for your help.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

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 this page in browser 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 dist-upgrade;
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.

sudo dpkg --configure -a; sudo apt-get -f install; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade;

Then reboot your pc and test if your wireless card is detected, if not continue from the step 3 below

Step 3: Please copy-paste the following command from this page 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 apt-get update; sudo apt-get 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|rtl|rt2|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo lsmod; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 4: 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.

Step 5: Step 4: Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known).

New to Ubuntu: read the Ubuntu Manual, it's very informative: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Click on the "download Button" to download the latest PDF version.

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Sanford Schimel (sschimel) said : 		#2

Howdy. I'm on a Dell Dimension 2400. No installed wireless network card, only ethernet. Using a Belkin Wireless-N router (model F5D8236-4 v3) and a Netgear Wireless N-300 Adapter model WNA3100

Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security 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://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
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhd16
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hwinfo libhd16
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 744kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,060kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe libhd16 16.0-2 [698kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe hwinfo 16.0-2 [46.1kB]
Fetched 744kB in 1s (606kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libhd16.
(Reading database ... 122910 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libhd16 (from .../libhd16_16.0-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package hwinfo.
Unpacking hwinfo (from .../hwinfo_16.0-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libhd16 (16.0-2) ...

Setting up hwinfo (16.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: BCM4401 100Base-T
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:0d:56:64:3b:e8
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.8 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:17 memory:fe9ee000-fe9effff memory:80000000-80003fff(prefetchable)
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 10.04.1 LTS"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 01)
01:05.0 Communication controller [0780]: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device [14f1:2702] (rev 01)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T [14e4:4401] (rev 01)
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 15ca:00c3 Textech International Ltd. Mini Optical Mouse
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 003: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick (4GB) / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
==========================================================
                                system Dimension 2400
/0 bus 0G1548
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
/0/400/700 memory 8KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/1000 memory 2GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 1GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 333 M
/0/1000/1 memory 1GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous 333 M
/0/100 bridge 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM
/0/100/2 display 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset
/0/100/1d bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EH
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/5 communication Conexant Systems, Inc.
/0/100/1e/9 eth0 network BCM4401 100Base-T
/0/100/1f bridge 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Int
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0 /dev/sda disk 80GB WDC WD800BB-75FR
/0/100/1f.1/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 71GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.1/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 3151MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.1/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 3151MiB Linux swap / Solaris part
/0/100/1f.1/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-ROM SD-616E
/0/100/1f.1/0.1.0 /dev/cdrom1 disk CD-R/CD-RW writer
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4
/0/100/1f.5 multimedia 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4
/0/1 scsi2 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 1999MB SCSI Disk
/0/1/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 1903MiB Windows FAT volume
Linux sanford-desktop 2.6.32-24-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 19 01:12:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00fe710] fe710
[ 0.025015] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.169318] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.171254] * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 0.171257] * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround
[ 0.318364] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.339360] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 0.541875] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.542338] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.542631] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.542941] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.548944] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.548949] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.555376] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.057906] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.417120] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 1.476170] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:09.0
[ 1.496876] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:56:64:3b:e8
[ 13.437139] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 13.845417] dell-wmi: No known WMI GUID found
[ 14.424020] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 14.961012] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 17.816192] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 17.816197] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[ 17.816430] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 21.100900] b44: eth0: powering down PHY
[ 21.816105] b44: eth0: Link is down.
[ 23.816168] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 23.816173] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
[ 27.880031] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 53.816133] b44: eth0: Link is down.
[ 156.816250] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[ 156.816254] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
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
22: PCI 109.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4401
  Unique ID: rBUF.iShmefsNM+5
  Parent ID: 6NW+.5o60iem1mwE
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:09.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:09.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T"
  Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
  Device: pci 0x4401 "BCM4401 100Base-T"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x8127
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "b44"
  Driver Modules: "ssb", "b44"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xfe9ee000-0xfe9effff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x80000000-0x80003fff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 17 (1620 events)
  HW Address: 00:0d:56:64:3b:e8
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004401sv00001028sd00008127bc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: b44 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)
Module Size Used by
joydev 8708 0
nls_iso8859_1 3249 1
nls_cp437 4919 1
vfat 8933 1
fat 47767 1 vfat
binfmt_misc 6587 1
snd_intel8x0 25588 2
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70662 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
vga16fb 11385 1
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
usbhid 36110 0
i915 285076 1
snd 54148 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm_kms_helper 29297 1 i915
dell_wmi 1793 0
ppdev 5259 0
dcdbas 5422 0
soundcore 6620 1 snd
drm 162409 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
parport_pc 25962 1
hid 67032 1 usbhid
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp 24119 2 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5028 1 i915
video 17375 1 i915
shpchp 28820 0
agpgart 31724 3 drm,intel_agp
output 1871 1 video
lp 7028 0
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
b44 25574 0
usb_storage 39425 1
floppy 53016 0
ssb 38671 1 b44
mii 4381 1 b44
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

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Sanford Schimel (sschimel) said : 		#3

Hello? Anyone?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Wait for the daily coming of Mark Rijckenberg great wireless problem solving here.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

@Marco: I don't think I can be of any help in this specific case. The USBID for this specific wireless adapter is 0846:9020

If you do a search on that USB ID on the Internet, you do not find any helpful links.... I do not think that this card is supported yet by Linux.

I recommend selling the wireless card USB and buying one of the following instead:

http://linuxhcl.org/browse/search?offset=0&category=25&manufacturer=&rating=5&os=1&order-by=rating-desc&keywords=

Sorry that I cannot be of further help....

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#6

The following link is better (more restrictive):

http://linuxhcl.org/browse/search?offset=0&category=25&manufacturer=&rating=5&os=1&order-by=rating-desc&worksoutofthebox=on&keywords=

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