No wireless network om Compaq Evo N800c

Asked by Sven Plantener

I am completely new on Ubuntu 10.10, straight from Windows. So please be detailed in the help you offer,
I just installed, and have no wireless network. why?
I have seen that, you often require additional info, so i followed instructions from another answer and here i what I got:

jeanette@jeanette-Evo-N800c:~$ sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
[sudo] password for jeanette:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:02:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 42
       serial: 00:08:02:67:8d:83
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e100 driverversion=3.5.24-k2-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.38 latency=66 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:10 memory:40080000-40080fff ioport:2400(size=64)
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge [8086:1a30] (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge [8086:1a31] (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) [8086:248c] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller [8086:248a] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:2485] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
02:04.0 Communication controller [0780]: Agere Systems LT WinModem [11c1:0450] (rev 02)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac50] (rev 02)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller [8086:1031] (rev 42)
02:0e.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 41)
02:0e.1 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 41)
02:0e.2 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 [1033:00e0] (rev 02)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 049f:0076 Compaq Computer Corp. Wireless LAN MultiPort W200
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04d9:1133 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                               system Evo N800c
/0 bus 07D8
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M C
/0/4/5 memory 8KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/a memory System Memory
/0/a/0 memory 256MiB SODIMM DDR Synchronous 100
/0/a/1 memory 256MiB SODIMM DDR Synchronous 142
/0/b memory Flash Memory
/0/b/0 memory 1MiB Chip FLASH Non-volatile
/0/1 memory
/0/2 memory
/0/100 bridge 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host
/0/100/1 bridge 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP
/0/100/1/0 display Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobi
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/4 communication LT WinModem
/0/100/1e/6 bridge PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
/0/100/1e/8 eth0 network 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) E
/0/100/1e/e bus USB
/0/100/1e/e.1 bus USB
/0/100/1e/e.2 bus USB 2.0
/0/100/1f bridge 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC)
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0 /dev/sda disk 80GB Hitachi HTS54168
/0/100/1f.1/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 73GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.1/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 1498MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.1/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 1498MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/1f.1/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-ROM SD-C2612
/0/100/1f.5 multimedia 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller
Linux jeanette-Evo-N800c 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.124417] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.165385] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 0.208996] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 0.371933] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.464477] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.571686] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.774871] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.334355] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.340155] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 2.343537] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 7.667100] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 8.587212] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:06.0: CardBus bridge found [0e11:004a]
[ 9.208996] nsc_ircc_pnp_probe() : From PnP, found firbase 0x3E8 ; irq 3 ; dma 3.
[ 9.209163] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
[ 9.210692] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
[ 0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[ 0.012744] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.167098] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.306371] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
[ 0.306481] ACPI: Lid Switch [C133]
[ 0.312631] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm
[ 11.320170] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 175x65
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
/etc/modprobe.d/intel-5300-iwlagn-disable11n.conf:options iwlagn 11n_disable=1
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said :
#1

Take a look at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/CompaqW200
Looks like you have only marginal support for the device

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