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Cannot wirelessly connect to Windows XP host from Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine in Oracle VirtualBox

Asked by Jacqueline Lundy on 2012-02-09

How do I shift from ethernet to wireless connection with host computer from Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine???

System:
     GatewaySystem
     AMD Athlon Processor L110
     Windows XP Service Pack 3

Network adapters:
     Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter
     Realtek RTL8102/8103/8136 Fanily PCI-E FE NIC
     Unknown device
     VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jacque:
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release.gpg
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates Release
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
Reading package lists... Done
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep rfkill
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
hwinfo is already the newest version.
rfkill is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 08:00:27:19:94:b2
       size: 1GB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm pcix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.21-k6-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.2.15 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1GB/s
       resources: irq:10 memory:f0000000-f001ffff ioport:d010(size=8)
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ rfkill list
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ lspce -nn
No command 'lspce' found, did you mean:
Command 'lspci' from package 'pciutils' (main)
lspce: command not found
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] [8086:1237] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] [8086:7000]
00:01.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter [80ee:beef]
00:03.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 02)
00:04.0 System peripheral [0880]: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service [80ee:cafe]
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:2415] (rev 01)
00:06.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB [106b:003f]
00:07.0 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI [8086:7113] (rev 08)
00:0d.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2829] (rev 02)
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
=======================================================
system VirtualBox
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/1 memory 496MiB System memory
/0/2 processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor L110
/0/2/0 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/2/1 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/100 bridge 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]
/0/100/1 bridge 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
/0/100/1.1 scsi1 storage 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
/0/100/1.1/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD reader
/0/100/2 display VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
/0/100/3 eth0 network 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
/0/100/4 generic VirtualBox Guest Service
/0/100/5 multimedia 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller
/0/100/6 bus KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
/0/100/7 bridge 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
/0/100/d scsi2 storage 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AH
/0/100/d/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 8589MB VBOX HARDDISK
/0/100/d/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 7791MiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/d/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 398MiB Extended partition
/0/100/d/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 398MiB Linux swap / Solaris partitio
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ uname -a
Linux jacquez-VirtualBox 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ dmesg | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|ireless|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rt1|rt2|rt3|rt5|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl'
[ 0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[ 0.287806] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 2.569865] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 2.655717] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 2.669871] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 2.669932] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 2.670278] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 2.700313] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 2.734597] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 5 devices
[ 2.798055] pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds
[ 2.802044] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found)
[ 3.265102] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 3.602222] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.812720] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.1 loaded
[ 3.812798] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 4.043430] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 4.146064] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 4.476537] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 8.250295] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 8.308133] e1000 0000:00:03.0: eth0: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 08:00:27:19:94:b2
[ 8.315302] e1000 0000:00:03.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 8.316486] input: VirtualBox USB Tablet as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input3
[ 8.317018] generic-usb 0003:80EE:0021.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [VirtualBox USB Tablet] on usb-0000:00:06.0-1/input0
[ 8.317208] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 8.317238] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 22.695486] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 33.050290] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
[ 44.000341] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo dmidecode|egrep 'anufact|roduct|erial|elease'
[sudo] password for jacque:
Release Date: 12/01/2006
Manufacturer: innotek GmbH
Product Name: VirtualBox
Serial Number: 0
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|brcm|CX|eth|ipw|ireless|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rt1|rt2|rt3|rt5|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl'
install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-0
install sound-slot-1 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-1
install sound-slot-2 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-2
install sound-slot-3 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-3
install sound-slot-4 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-4
install sound-slot-5 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-5
install sound-slot-6 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-6
install sound-slot-7 /sbin/modprobe snd-card-7
# Workaround at bug #499695 (reverted in Ubuntu see LP #319505)
# Cause optional modules to be loaded above sound card driver modules
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
options snd-usb-caiaq index=-2
options snd-usb-ua101 index=-2
options snd-usb-us122l index=-2
options snd-usb-usx2y index=-2
# Keep snd-pcsp from being loaded as first soundcard
# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist usbmouse
blacklist usbkbd
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
# most apps now use garmin usb driver directly (Ubuntu: #114565)
# low-quality, just noise when being used for sound playback, causes
blacklist sound
blacklist uart6850
blacklist dmasound_core
blacklist dmasound_pmac
blacklist soundcard
blacklist usb-midi
blacklist pcwd_usb
blacklist twl4030_wdt
options iwlagn 11n_disable=1
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo hwinfo --netcard
[sudo] password for jacque:
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 1976: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 280.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
12: PCI 03.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  Unique ID: rBUF.GkSpXDNdaaB
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:03.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x100e "82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  SubDevice: pci 0x001e "PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter"
  Revision: 0x02
  Driver: "e1000"
  Driver Modules: "e1000"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf001ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xd010-0xd017 (rw)
  IRQ: 10 (3416 events)
  HW Address: 08:00:27:19:94:b2
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d0000100Esv00008086sd0000001Ebc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: e1000 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe e1000"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ ps -aux|egrep 'wpa|icd|etwork'
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
root 585 0.0 0.7 19140 4032 ? Ssl 11:54 0:00 NetworkManager
root 624 0.0 0.2 4900 1512 ? S 11:54 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s
root 625 0.0 0.1 2296 996 ? S 11:54 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient-f357fe5e-53e0-4457-998d-41186e34fede-eth0.lease -cf /var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf eth0
jacque 2025 0.0 0.1 4012 732 pts/0 S+ 13:43 0:00 egrep --color=auto wpa|icd|etwork
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ sudo lsmod
[sudo] password for jacque:
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6599 1
vboxvideo 1240 1
drm 168054 2 vboxvideo
agpgart 32011 1 drm
vboxsf 36395 0
snd_intel8x0 25632 2
snd_ac97_codec 99227 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1014 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
ppdev 5556 0
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 49006 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
parport_pc 26058 0
joydev 8735 0
psmouse 59033 0
vboxguest 195554 6 vboxsf
serio_raw 4022 0
soundcore 880 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_piix4 8635 0
lp 7342 0
parport 31492 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usbhid 36882 0
hid 67742 1 usbhid
ahci 19013 0
e1000 97525 0
libahci 21667 3 ahci
jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

jacque@jacquez-VirtualBox:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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