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Topic: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

hi everyone. Complete linux newbie here. I've been hopping distros with this netbook like nobody's business in the past 6 months. Now, #! promises to put a stop to that, it's friggin' sweet. only I cant get the wifi to work. When this happened previously with my Ubuntu experiences they were solved by installing drivers with:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

but apparently since Statler now is based on debian that no longer works. Or is there a way around that?

Last edited by acanoftuna (2010-11-25 12:58:30)

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

i'm a linux noob myself but if i were you i'd try to manually get that package
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+ … nel-source
that might turn out to be a bad idea but at least you tried tongue

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Ha. I'll take any suggestions at this point smile
didn't work though. dependencies not satisfied

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Look here for download and dependencies:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/bcmwl-kernel-source

Might do the trick.

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

welcome to gnu/linux and crunchbang acanoftuna.

if you'd post your wireless card type and model, someone will be happy to look into it and help you get it working on #! debian edition.

(i say someone because while i'll come back to look, folks around here are so darn helpful somebody'll probably beat me to it. smile )

as a lead-off, in case you don't already know you're wireless type, searching output of the commands lspci -vnn  and dmesg should help you identify the device. if you can't pick it out, feel free to link to a pastebin of the full output.

cheers

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

try adding the ubuntu repositories just for the 

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add these 2 lines

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted

when you're done delete them from sources.list

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

here's the output of lspci -vnn:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3090]
    Subsystem: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3090]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
    Memory at 52000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: rt2860

dmesg yields http://pastebin.com/w4ppivZj

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

First I would not recommend using the Ubuntu packages. It is better to find the correct Debian packages for your card.

See if this helps:

http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

still looking into it, but it looks like there's some solid drivers in development for 2.6.36  (see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Models )

from what i can tell the module needed is rt3090sta or rt2800pci. i'll post back with an update when i find a way to get that kicked into play.

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

so here's where i think you're going to find some good info. the new Linux Mint also switched to debian, and this forum post has a guy with the same card, and info re: how he fixed it. You should try to do the same and report back.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p … mp;t=56285

g'luck!

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

sorry I couldn't get back at you sooner. no internet and all

well, now there is!

I was pretty frustrated that nothing worked. I was even preparing an ubuntu minimal install and planned to build up from there as a consolation. I dont know why I decided to clean install #! again. I just had a hunch that it'd work. and it did.

which is weird. I went through the same steps except this time I prepped the usb with the latest unetbootin and set separate partitions for /, /home, /usr, etc.. That's it! not that I'm complaining big_smile

it's official, then. I'm a budding crunchbanger. the only fault I spot at the moment is the speaker not sounding although I suspect that it's a case of broken speaker (I did get this netbook for free), since it's never worked in previous distros. earphones work perfectly, though. never bothered me. I imagine the built-in speaker would sound ugly, anyways

Thanks, you guys. I appreciate the responses. This is a very nice community. I guess I'll browse around for everything else. much to tweak. this is exciting!

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  • Registered: 2010-12-20
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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

ali wrote:

try adding the ubuntu repositories just for the 

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add these 2 lines

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick main restricted

when you're done delete them from sources.list

I just wanted to say this worked for me on my HP Mini 1000 where the familiar fix in Ubuntu 10.10 is to remove the Broadcom STA drivers and install bcmwl-kernel-source.

Great suggestion Ali!  Just wondering, why remove the sources?

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

You do not want to keep Ubuntu repos on a Debian machine.

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Right, that is the intuitive answer.  I guess it was a dumb question but I was imagining an answer more like you don't want to keep Ubuntu repos on a Debian machine because... ? ...when you upgrade some program or something it will be configured for the gnome desktop environment, not openbox, or the applications themselves or the updates available for them would be different.  Or maybe if you typed sudo apt-get dist-upgrade you would be looking at Ubuntu 10.10?   

That's my guess.  I'll try to refrain from asking a bunch of dumb questions.  The reason why I asked is because while I had the Maverick Meerkat repos added I went ahead and added iplist using this method:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=530183

Just because that is the method I know.  It seemed to work just fine as did the bcm-wl-kernel driver so I was wondering how bad of an idea it is to keep the Ubuntu repos.

Last edited by _Dan_ (2010-12-21 08:27:47)

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

repositories obviously source all your software, and while ubuntu is based on debian, it is not debian. there are some big differences between how software is packaged, what versions are available, locations of configuration files, naming schema, etc. that could lead to real issues trying to upgrade a linux distro from the repos of any other distro.

i would be very hesitant to install ubuntu software on debian, and if i wanted a piece of software that was not available as a deb from the debian repositories, i'd look at installing from source first.

*edit*: when i say "all your software" i mean all your software, the real issue is more related to your core system files than, say, your media player. if you add repos that have newer versions of these core system files, you may be lead to upgrade core system files to versions that were not designed for your system.

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Hello my Linux friends.  I am also newish to Linux, although I have excellent knowledge of PCs and can understand things quickly.  I really like crunch-bang for my net-book hp 110-3830, as it runs excellently fast. 

my problem: my wireless driver is also not detected and I have tried to follow the solutions above, but I think I am not knowledge enough to know the steps in between.

I have tried to follow the steps under http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta however I cannot edit /etc/apt/sources.list since it tells me permission is denied. I am wondering if I were able to get correctly edit my sources.list and follow those steps if the wireless LAN would work.  I am willing to post the results of any information from terminal and supply and additional details, if anyone is able to help me with simple enough instructions for a Newb, im sure many would beneift.

Thanks again all, look forward to any responses.

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Installing firmware-ralink probably suffices to get it working:

sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink

If not, post output of

uname -r
lspci -knn
dmesg|egrep -i -A4 'wlan|eth|firmw'

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-01-10 09:51:44)

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

firstly I would like to thank you Xaos, for your quick response and interest in my case.

I have tried to install and reinstall the ralink firmware but it says its already installed and reinstalling had no effect.  I have entered those codes into my terminal and here are the results:

:~$ uname -r
2.6.39-bpo.2-486
~$ lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3594]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink Device [1814:5390]
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1636]
  
:~$ dmesg|egrep -i -a4 'wlan|eth|firmw'
[    0.068003] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
[    0.068003] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.068617] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[    0.071215] ACPI: Executed 6 blocks of module-level executable AML code
[    0.073691] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[    0.074728] ACPI: SSDT 3f497810 00789 (v01  PmRef  Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20100121)
[    0.075730] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
[    0.075737] ACPI: SSDT   (null) 00789 (v01  PmRef  Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20100121)
[    0.076032] ACPI: SSDT 3f496c10 001C3 (v02  PmRef  Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20100121)
--
[    1.125071] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
[    1.377281] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[    1.440171] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
[    1.440177] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ0] (58 C)
[    1.443374] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
[    1.443425] r8169 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    1.443480] r8169 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    1.443554] r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[    1.444752] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: RTL8105e at 0xf8042000, 10:1f:74:cb:7d:a7, XID 00a00000 IRQ 42
[    1.565259] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    1.565581] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    1.565662] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    1.592089] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
--
[    5.233563] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[    5.270913] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    5.272183] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)
[    5.509699] ACPI Error: Field [D128] at 1040 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 160 (bits) (20110316/dsopcode-236)
[    5.509715] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.HWMC] (Node f68323b0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.509738] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.WMAD] (Node f6832260), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.509851] ACPI Error: Field [D128] at 1040 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 160 (bits) (20110316/dsopcode-236)
[    5.509864] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.HWMC] (Node f68323b0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.509883] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.WMAD] (Node f6832260), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.511876] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    5.524088] input: HP WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input5
[    5.527091] ACPI Error: Field [D128] at 1040 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 160 (bits) (20110316/dsopcode-236)
[    5.527108] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.HWMC] (Node f68323b0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.527130] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.WMAD] (Node f6832260), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.527239] ACPI Error: Field [D128] at 1040 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 160 (bits) (20110316/dsopcode-236)
[    5.527252] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.HWMC] (Node f68323b0), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.527271] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.WMID.WMAD] (Node f6832260), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20110316/psparse-536)
[    5.575514] Linux media interface: v0.10
[    5.630289] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    5.664878] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device HP Webcam-50 (058f:a002)
[    5.671285] input: HP Webcam-50 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input6
--
[   13.341805] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   13.456132] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   13.456142] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   13.456146] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   13.490001] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   13.490007] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   13.540532] Bridge firewalling registered
[   13.969155] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[   14.107017] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   17.282233] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw (-2)
[   17.402985] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link down
[   17.403416] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   36.683549] r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0: link up
[   36.684463] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   46.784040] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  192.020056] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[  192.192095] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=05da
[  192.192108] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  192.192118] usb 2-2: Product: Rapoo 3200
:~$

Last edited by GamMan (2012-01-11 00:30:24)

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  • Registered: 2011-06-24
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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Install everything that is necessary to compile against your kernel: in a terminal window:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a prepare

Then follow instructions from this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=72
If there is any problem, post the output from the command that went wrong.
hth

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Re: [RESOLVED]Wireless network not working on HP mini 110

Xaos, again thank you! it actually worked!... it wasn't easy and took me a few trys and read backs to get it right but in the end it was successful.  I followed your instructions above, however for the benefit of the next person who needs to follow the same procedure ill point a couple things out. 

1.follow xaos' instructions and enter the above 2 codes into the terminal.

2.Then download the last file in the list from https://build.opensuse.org/package/file … 3Awireless (as per directed by the ubuntu forum) - you will not need all the patches as those are for previous versions.

3. follow chilli's instructions as per post #58 here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … amp;page=6 (very important that you Make these changes to the config.mk file included with the download: 
"  set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'    "

4. lastly enter the code as per post #57 here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … amp;page=6
which is: (*also note that "setup_wireless" directory might not be where you extracted it to, mine was in /downloads)

cd setup_wireless/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO
sudo su
make
make install
modprobe rt5390sta
exit

Then restart and your wireless abilites should be fully fuctional -it worked for me on an hp mini 110-3830

my repost isnt great and im still a newb so definately refer to the ubuntu forum on the topic if needed: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … amp;page=6

Thank you again everyone here, with crunchbang and in the ubuntu forum, it is an excellent felling when it all works out!