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gnome-nettool package

ubuntu USB wifi state disconnected

Asked by Francois on 2014-04-08

I am trying to setup a little alt coin mining rig. I have a installed Ubuntu 12.04 onto a USB device and am booting onto it from an Asrock H81 Pro BTC motherboard with a Saphire Radeon R9-280x Vapor graphics card and 4 GB of RAM. I have plugged in a USB WiFi dongle to connect to the WiFi network, but it is not working.

To top it off, the ubuntu installation keeps hanging, and I cant update drivers etc without using the wifi, so need to figure out how to get that working asap.

I am a linux noob and have it installed on my notebook that is working fine and connecting to the wifi, which is how I am typing this message.

I have done the following command on the other pc and the result is below:

miner1@miner1-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep rfkill; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scan | egrep -i 'chan|ssid'; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net; lsusb; nmcli nm status; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; sudo updatedb; dmesg | egrep '02:00|80211|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|ireless|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rror|rtl|RTL|rt2|RT2|rt3|RT3|rt5|RT5|rt6|RT6|rt7|RT7|usb|witch|wl';sudo dmidecode|egrep 'anufact|roduct|erial|elease'; iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep '80211|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|wmi|witch|wl'; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; ps -aux|egrep 'wpa|icd|etwork'; netstat -rn ; cat /etc/resolv.conf; ls -lia /boot; grep tmpfs /etc/fstab; ubuntu-support-status; sudo lsmod
[sudo] password for miner1:
Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease

Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates InRelease

Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports InRelease

Err http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security InRelease

Err http://extras.ubuntu.com precise InRelease

Err http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise-updates Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'extras.ubuntu.com'
Err http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/InRelease

W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://ls.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-backports/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ls.archive.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'

W: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'extras.ubuntu.com'

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package hwinfo
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 11
       serial: d0:50:99:0c:33:e6
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f0104000-f0104fff memory:f0100000-f0103fff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: usb@3:10
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: d8:fe:e3:60:fa:b0
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu driverversion=3.2.0-29-generic-pae firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 11)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Motherboard (one of many) [1849:8168]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04d9:1503 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Shortboard Lefty
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) NetScroll+ Mini Traveler / Genius NetScroll 120
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 2001:3308 D-Link Corp.
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running disconnected enabled enabled enabled disabled
H/W path Device Class Description
=====================================================
system To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled B
/0 bus H81 Pro BTC
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/c memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/d processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1820 @ 2.70GH
/0/d/e memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/d/f memory 2MiB L3 cache
/0/d/2.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.3 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.4 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.5 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.6 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.7 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.8 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.9 processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.a processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.b processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.c processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.d processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.e processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.f processor Logical CPU
/0/d/2.10 processor Logical CPU
/0/10 memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/10/0 memory 4GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0
/0/10/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/1 processor
/0/1/2.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.3 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.4 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.5 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.6 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.7 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.8 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.9 processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.a processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.b processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.c processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.d processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.e processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.f processor Logical CPU
/0/1/2.10 processor Logical CPU
/0/100 bridge Haswell DRAM Controller
/0/100/1 bridge Haswell PCI Express x16 Controller
/0/100/1/0 display Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970]
/0/100/1/0.1 multimedia Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 S
/0/100/14 bus Lynx Point USB xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/16 communication Lynx Point MEI Controller #1
/0/100/1a bus Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controlle
/0/100/1b multimedia Lynx Point HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.5 bridge Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0 eth1 network RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethe
/0/100/1d bus Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controlle
/0/100/1f bridge Lynx Point LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.3 bus Lynx Point SMBus Controller
/0/2 scsi0 storage
/0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 8004MB Cruzer Blade
/0/2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 6610MiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 1021MiB Extended partition
/0/2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 1021MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/1 wlan0 network Wireless interface
Linux miner1-System-Product-Name 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 9.701226] rtlwifi: reg 0x82, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0xa400
[ 9.715628] rtl8192c_common:_rtl92c_fw_free_to_go():<0-0> chksum report faill ! REG_MCUFWDL:0x00030000 .
[ 9.715631] rtl8192c_common:rtl92c_download_fw():<0-0> Firmware is not ready to run!
[ 9.715753] rtlwifi: reg 0x2, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.716643] rtlwifi: reg 0x824, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.716647] rtlwifi: reg 0x870, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.716650] rtlwifi: reg 0x860, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.716655] rtlwifi: reg 0x860, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.716661] rtlwifi: reg 0x824, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.925724] rtlwifi: reg 0xc80, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.925727] rtlwifi: reg 0xc80, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.925731] rtlwifi: reg 0xc4c, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.925736] rtlwifi: reg 0xc94, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 value=0x30000
[ 9.980098] hda_codec: cannot build controls for #0 (error -16)
[ 10.044015] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 10.044210] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 10.054303] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth1: link down
[ 10.054424] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 10.054652] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 10.139017] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
[ 15.495442] Modules linked in: vesafb snd_hda_codec_hdmi bnep arc4 rfcomm bluetooth ppdev snd_hda_codec_realtek rtl8192cu rtl8192c_common rtlwifi mac80211 cfg80211 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm snd_seq_device psmouse serio_raw snd_timer video mac_hid parport_pc snd soundcore snd_page_alloc lp parport usb_storage uas usbhid hid r8169
[ 15.495470] EAX: f116ce2c EBX: f12a0180 ECX: f1bcf100 EDX: f12f1400
[ 15.495542] [<c1152164>] path_openat+0xa4/0x350
[ 42.037437] type=1400 audit(1396994839.488:24): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1 profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5" name="/usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/" pid=1769 comm="mission-control" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
Release Date: 12/17/2013
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Product Name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: H81 Pro BTC
Serial Number: M80-41027600789
Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Manufacturer: Intel
Serial Number: Not Specified
Manufacturer: 0215
Serial Number: 00000000
Manufacturer: [Empty]
Serial Number: [Empty]
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
sudo: hwinfo: command not found
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
root 696 0.1 0.1 23024 5412 ? Ssl 00:06 0:00 NetworkManager
root 1010 0.0 0.0 5940 1804 ? Ss 00:06 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -P /run/sendsigs.omit.d/wpasupplicant.pid -u -s -O /var/run/wpa_supplicant
miner1 1910 0.0 0.0 4372 808 pts/0 S+ 00:07 0:00 egrep --color=auto wpa|icd|etwork
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
total 22280
260611 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 26 09:15 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Mar 26 09:14 ..
260619 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 800453 Jul 27 2012 abi-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
260620 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147379 Jul 27 2012 config-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
260617 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Mar 26 09:14 grub
263747 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14155180 Mar 26 09:15 initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
260621 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176764 Nov 27 2011 memtest86+.bin
260622 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178944 Nov 27 2011 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
260618 -rw------- 1 root root 2311324 Jul 27 2012 System.map-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
305524 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5010176 Aug 18 2012 vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic-pae
Support status summary of 'miner1-System-Product-Name':

You have 1370 packages (100.0%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 0 packages (0.0%) that are unsupported

Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more details
Module Size Used by
vesafb 13516 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 31775 0
bnep 17830 2
arc4 12473 2
rfcomm 38139 0
bluetooth 158438 10 bnep,rfcomm
ppdev 12849 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 174222 1
rtl8192cu 97722 0
rtl8192c_common 69519 1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi 95804 1 rtl8192cu
mac80211 436455 3 rtl8192cu,rtl8192c_common,rtlwifi
cfg80211 178679 2 rtlwifi,mac80211
snd_hda_intel 32765 3
snd_hda_codec 109562 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm 80845 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse 72919 0
serio_raw 13027 0
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
video 19068 0
mac_hid 13077 0
parport_pc 32114 1
snd 62064 12 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
soundcore 14635 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usb_storage 39646 2
uas 17828 0
usbhid 41906 0
hid 77367 1 usbhid
r8169 56321 0
miner1@miner1-System-Product-Name:~$