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Wireless not working on Toshiba A665D and Ubuntu 9.04

Asked by Ed Johnson

Computer is Toshiba A665D
Network controler seems to not load a driver and will not identify network so my wireless will not work

09:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8176 (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8181
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
 I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
 Memory at fe900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

0a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device fd30
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
 I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
 Memory at d0204000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
 Memory at d0200000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: r8169
 Kernel modules: r8169

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Geoffrey McClinsey (geoffmcc) said : 		#1

This may not apply but I spoke to someone else having troubles with wifi. Although was a different chip set i notice some simularites to your post.

1. He had Kernel Driver in use and module listed.
2. He also had the line Capabilities: <access denied>

Solution for him was to run

rfkill list

command returned

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: yes
   Hard Blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard Blocked: yes

Then he ran rfkill unblock wifi

and then rfkill list again but this time output was

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard Blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard Blocked: yes

and he had his connection back

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Support for Ubuntu 9.04 ended on 23 October 2010.

Please install Ubuntu 10.04 or Ubuntu 10.10 to get support.

Here is more info about the Ubuntu releases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Ubuntu_9.04_.28Jaunty_Jackalope.29

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Ed Johnson (edwinleejohnson) said : 		#3

For Toshiba Satellite A665D had installed Ubuntu 9.04

upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04
Then ran the following code found on the Community web site

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wireless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms

The went to System>Administration>Hardware

It said the driver was installed but not active.
I deinstalled and reactivated it.

Now it works

Thanks to all

Long live Linux... I hope I grow wise before I die.

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Best Geoffrey McClinsey (geoffmcc) said : 		#4

Glad you got it working. Don't forget to adjust the status of this question accordingly

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Geoffrey McClinsey (geoffmcc) said : 		#5

Glad you got it working. Don't forget to adjust the status of this question accordingly

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Ed Johnson (edwinleejohnson) said : 		#6

Thanks Geoff McClinsey, that solved my question.