[Resolved] No Network Connections on 8.10.02 Inspiron Notebook (Page 1 of 3)

ive had some trouble with both ubuntu 8.10 and CB 8.10.01.. with connecting to wireless for the first time..i managed to get it up and running again, but dont remember exactly what i did..i think its just a confusing "usability issue"..
i think the ting is not to enter the password from the popup window, but go directly to the networksetup..:  from the network-icon on the taskbar->edit connections->wireless-tab->select+edit->enter ssid in wireless and fields in wireless security..
then connect through leftclick on the networkicon on the taskbar..
please try to remember how you did it if you succeed, as i failed to do so..

Thanks for your responses.

papparonny: I forgot to mention that I tried your idea and it still didn't work.  I'm a bit confused as to why each time I enter the WPA key, it looks fine until I save and reopen the connection.  Then, the key displayed doesn't match what I entered.  No amount of overtyping, copying and pasting, etcetera fixes it.

snowpine: I'm also a wicd fan, but can't easily download it directly on this machine because I can't connect to either a wireless or wired network.  I could download a package and save it to a USB key, but shouldn't have to do that as the 8.10.01 worked well.  I'm concerned there's another issue.

Thanks papparonny.  I've repeated this step tens of times.  I've tried just about everything I can think of.  I've even reinstalled.  I've tried deleting the connection, letting the card rediscover the connection and re-input the password, I've manually entered the info as you suggested.

I've installed Ubuntu Intrepid on this machine and never had issues. CrunchBang 8.10.01 didn't give issues either.

Still puzzled.  I'm actually re-downloading CrunchBang - this time directly instead of over Torrent and I'll reinstall again.  I don't think it should matter as the original CD checked out.  We'll see.

Happy to, Philip.  Can you tell me which logs/sections you'd like to see?

Last edited by sewmyheadon (2009-01-19 19:27:48)

I was just looking at the syslog when you posted.  Not sure I understand exactly what I'm seeing here with the changing states, or if you've got enough of the log for it to be helpful.

Here are the last 40 lines - let me know if you need more.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/84

Obviously, this part of the log pertains to my attempts to get a wireless connection, but I'm still not able to connect via wired network either.

I wondered if the length of my key could be an issue - it's 50 characters.  Hasn't been a problem with Ubuntu or Crunchbang before, but thought I'd mention it.  This would only be an issue with wireless, though.

I've just finished re-downloading #! from your site instead of torrent (md5 checks out on both), so I'm happy to reinstall and go from there.

Finally, I have no idea if this would be relevant, but the only partitions I kept intact when reinstalling were my 2GB swap and a 20GB /home.  In addition to this, I have two other partitions, which are both formatted upon install: 6GB allocated for / and another 2gb for /var.

*edit* When I say 'intact,' I mean I kept the partitions.  Beforehand, I manually deleted some folders, hidden and otherwise, that I wouldn't need or didn't want anymore.

Last edited by sewmyheadon (2009-01-19 19:53:18)

I finished re-downloading #! 8.10.02 and checked the md5sum, and there were no issues.  Burned the ISO to a CD and booted the LiveCD in my laptop again with the ethernet cable plugged in and wireless on.

Still no luck.

I've pasted the entire syslog from my brief LiveCD session here:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/85

Please could you provide more information about your set-up, it would help to narrow this down.

Hmm, as am I. I will continue to look for a reason why this is happening, or not as the case may be. Meanwhile please keep us updated. The only thing I can think of at the moment is that something went screwy with the last build and it is missing something. This could possibly of happened when the packages were removed from the build script and written into the new desktop metapackage. Hmm. I have been testing as many different network cards as possible, but they all seem to be working for me. Like I said, puzzling!

Does anyone else have any thoughts?

hi sew
maybe you could post the outputs of lsmod, and possibly lspci and lshal?

sudo lsmod > mod.txt
sudo lspci > pci.txt
sudo lshal > hal.txt

im wondering if theres a kernel-module issue..

Last edited by papparonny (2009-01-20 00:07:36)

Howdy.

Here you go . . .

lsmod - http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/89

lspci - http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/87

lshal - http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/88

It is a fujitsu and has intel using the ipw2200 wireless module.  With 01, it did get a connection with networkmanager but for whatever reason, it was not stable so I installed wicd instead.  Never had any wireless problems with any version of ubuntu.

@kozimodo, thank you for posting the additional info, I am sure it will help

@papparonny, thank you for your assistance, it is appreciated!

@sewmyheadon, thank you for sticking with it.

I am sure if we all work together we can crack this. For what it is worth, here is a diff output from the .01 and .02 package manifest:

Part 1: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/90
Part 2: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/91

Please feel free to jump up and down if you spot anything!

Last edited by corenominal (2009-01-20 01:08:35)

Interesting, and a big help. We are at least narrowing it down somewhat.

Thank you, I have been staring at it for a while, I think I have package names burned into my retinas. The thing is, it maybe blindingly obvious, or maybe that something has changed in one of the packages since the two builds. Either way, good luck and let me know if you spot anything.

Sure is.