Ubuntu 9.10 & Dell 6400 - Wireless not working

[Desmo]

Done some reading around on Ubuntu forums but can't find any definitive answer. Installed 9.10 last night and it doesn't recognise the wireless card at all. I've installed the backports and still no joy.

Any other ideas before I dump it and go back to 8.04?

[Daz]

Whats the wireless card? Presumably not an Intel, so Broadcom?

[Dr. Z]

Have you tried ndiswrapper with the windows drivers?

[Desmo]

Sorry, missed out the obvious there :p

It's an Intel 3945. Not tried ndiswrapper yet but will look into it.

[Daz]

I use that card on my laptop and netbook and it's fine :/ No backports.

Is the module loaded (lsmod |grep iwl3945)? You running x64?

[Desmo]

Can't check until I get home. Yep with the x64.

[Dr. Z]

If what Daz has suggested turns up nothing, can you post the output of lspci -v as that will help too!

[Desmo]

Is the module loaded (lsmod |grep iwl3945)?
iwl3945 83360 0
iwlcore 134820 1 iwl3945
mac80211 243360 2 iwl3945,iwlcore
led_class 5256 3 iwl3945,iwlcore,sdhci
cfg80211 152424 3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211

[Desmo]

can you post the output of lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at eff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at efec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at efebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efdfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: efa00000-efcfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000e01fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at bf60 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: ef900000-ef9fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01af
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at ef9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b44
Kernel modules: b44

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at ef9fd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) (prog-if 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at ef9fd400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 0a)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at ef9fd500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ricoh-mmc
Kernel modules: ricoh_mmc

03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 05)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01bd
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at ef9fd600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
!!! Unknown header type 7f

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1021
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
Memory at efdff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945

[Daz]

That's a yes, hHmm, I wonder if there's a software killswitch. Can we get dmesg |grep iwl3945 Des? :)

[edit] is there anything in /etc/network/interfaces ?

[Desmo]

You're not going to believe this....but it's working....after I hit the key to turn on the wireless :/

Thing is, I already checked and it was on in the BIOS so not sure why the OS didn't pick it up but hitting the key has activated it all OK :D

[Daz]

Software killswitch :) My mum and brothers missus do that all the time, and it's always the same thing ;D

[Desmo]

It was bound to be something simple :p



First person to say "it was....you" wins a special prize.

[Haly]

It was......






YOU!

:D :p

[Desmo]

You've won my special prize. You seen it yet? :D

[leowyatt]

I wouldn't worry Desmo I nearly got my boss to send back my first laptop because the trackpad stopped working :o

[Haly]

You've won my special prize. You seen it yet? :D

Yup ;D;D