wireless network stopped working
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I am using simply mepis 6.5 on a Acer Aspire 1350 laptop and For some reason my wireless network has stopped working. I can see that the PCMIA U.S. Robotics (texas instruments ACX111)network card is not being activated at startup either.
I've read through the wikki but still cant get it working.
Please can someone help me
I have the system as dual
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I have the system as dual boot with Win XP & its still working with he wireless connection so its obviously a problem with mepis.
I will give it a try with the live CD but I think when i got it working originally after making changes then doing a restart so unless it will activate without a reboot the live cd option may not work.
OK, thanks
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Can you paste in the output of these commands so we can see what the situation is:
lspci -v
ndiswrapper -l
And tell us how you have MEPIS Network Assistant configured. Thanks.
Here is the output of
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Here is the output of lspci-v:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7205
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities:0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: d1000000-d1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f3ffffff
Capabilities:0000:00:07.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 40000000-41fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 42000000-43fff000
I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff
I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 00010000:00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at d0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities:0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]
Capabilities:0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 1c20 [size=32]
Capabilities:0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1c40 [size=32]
Capabilities:0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d0004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities:0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities:0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 1c60 [size=16]
Capabilities:0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
Capabilities:0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
Capabilities:0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
I/O ports at 1800 [size=256]
Memory at d0004c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities:0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI]: Unknown device 0033
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 4
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities:0000:02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: Unknown device 010e:16ec
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
Memory at 42020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
Memory at 42000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
and from ndiswrapper -l:
airplus : driver installed
bcmwl5 : driver installed
bcmwl5a : driver installed
lsbcmnds : driver installed
lsbcmnds6 : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
device (104C:9066) present (alternate driver: acx)
mrv8k51 : driver installed
netr33x : driver installed
prismnic : driver installed
wlanuig : driver installed
wlipnds : driver installed
I am having to use the a wired network connection the momement so i can post here.
Did You Update Your System?
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After installing Mepis, did you do a software update via Synaptic (click Reload, Mark all upgrades, Apply)? If so, whatever network settings you had may have been lost. Go into the Mepis Network Assistant and check each of the tabs and interfaces. If you make any changes on any of the screens, make sure you click the Apply button before you move to the next tab.
Jon
The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.
Yes knotify said there were
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Yes knotify said there were updates available and they were done via syaptic.
I have spent ages replicating what i did before to get it working and still no luck.
The PCMIA wireless interface isn't getting activated at bootup for some reason.
Ive only enabled the wlan0 interface to be started at boot, all others are not.
I'm sure this is what i did the last time and mepis turned the interface on during bootup (its light came on), then i installed Wlassistant and found a network access point & that was everything up and running. I can't understand what ive done thats different this time.
A couple of things to
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A couple of things to try:
In Synaptic, completely remove and then reinstall mepis-network in the same session. Then open a Konsole window, switch to root with su, and type
rmmod acx
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
if the first command returns an error, that's OK, we are just ensuring the native acx driver can't intefere with ndiswrapper. Hopefully this will now have your device working--try the command
ifconfig -a
to see what interfaces are up, then
iwlist wlan0 scan
to see if wifi networks are detected.
If this works, you should edit the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file as root and add the line
blacklist acx
This keeps Mepis from loading it at boot.
Can you test
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Some basic diagnostics:
It would surprise me if this were a software problem suddenly showing up for no reason, but maybe so...