Help needed with wireless for F13 on HP Mini 210-1005sa

Czarlji · #1 19th September 2010, 08:26 AM

Hello Guys
question to stoat:
code yum install akmod-wl doesent work for me,i got info"No package akmod-wl available."

so,i try the other option.download those 3 packages manually and install like you said above,reboot
and wireless connection disapear from network manager

((before i have wireless but with info
"wireless not ready".wired connection work whitout any problems.i use fedora13 on hp mini 210-1005sa.
if you be so kind to help me resolve that problem i'll be gratefull.
thx

stoat · #2 19th September 2010, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Czarlji

Hello Guys
question to stoat:
code yum install akmod-wl doesent work for me,i got info"No package akmod-wl available."
so,i try the other option.download those 3 packages manually and install like you said above,reboot
and wireless connection disapear from network manager((before i have wireless but with info
"wireless not ready".wired connection work whitout any problems.i use fedora13 on hp mini 210-1005sa.
if you be so kind to help me resolve that problem i'll be gratefull.
thx

Hello Czarlji,

And welcome to this place. I moved your post to a new thread and picked the best title I could think of for now. First, at this forum, nobody cares if you start the 1000th thread about some wireless adapter. Next, the issue in that other thread is not resolved yet, and soon multiple people would have been cross-talking about two people's problems at the same time. Trust me, you don't want to be mixed up in that or the cause of that kind of thing. When some issue is affecting many people all at once such as some update catastrophe breaking everybody's wireless, then it's more common to jump into an existing thread and add on a "Me, too" kind of post. In fact, those kinds of threads are often merged by the staff. Okay, enough about that. Onward...

First, you should establish for the record that broadcom-wl is known to work with your wireless chipset. Don't be offended. It happens all the time. Your readers can't be sure of that unless you post something about it. The computer model is not enough because the wireless chipset is what matters in these problems, and that doesn't have to be the same in in every example of a particular computer model. This probably will establish the chipset...

Code:

lspci

Next, those three packages to which you referred from the other thread were for a particular kernel. You should establish that, too, for the same reason...

Code:

uname -r

Just in case the above is all appropriate for your kernel, chipset, and broadcom-wl, you may as well go ahead and document what broadcom-wl stuff has been installed for what kernels...

Code:

rpm -qa | grep -e kernel -e broadcom-wl -e kmod-wl | sort

And lastly for now, along with that stuff, post the kernel modules that are being loaded (some people have to force wl to load)...

Code:

lsmod | sort

That will look like a lot of stuff to copy and paste into your next post, but I think it's all relevant to the stated problem and will help your readers understand the situation and think of a useful suggestion.

Czarlji · #3 31st December 2010, 05:28 PM

Hello again.
i already upgrade from f13 to 14 but still this same .

Code:

[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$

Code:

[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$ uname -r
2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686

Code:

[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -e kernel -e broadcom-wl -e kmod-wl | sort
abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.1.14-1.fc14.i686
kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686
kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686

Code:

[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$ lsmod | sort
acpi_cpufreq            6285  0 
arc4                    1085  2 
b43                   144940  0 
bluetooth              73233  1 btusb
btusb                  12538  0 
cfg80211              110951  2 b43,mac80211
cpufreq_ondemand        7262  2 
drm                   139288  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
drm_kms_helper         22278  1 i915
ecb                     1595  2 
fuse                   51544  3 
hp_wmi                  4783  0 
i2c_algo_bit            4197  1 i915
i2c_core               21328  6 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
i2c_i801                9016  0 
i915                  241873  4 
ip6table_filter         1207  1 
ip6_tables              9929  1 ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT             3470  2 
ipv6                  229581  34 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
joydev                  7306  0 
mac80211              188648  1 b43
microcode              11139  0 
mii                     3578  1 r8169
mmc_core               53202  2 b43,ssb
Module                  Size  Used by
mperf                   1141  1 acpi_cpufreq
nf_conntrack_ipv6      14441  2 
output                  1625  1 video
qcserial                3204  1 
r8169                  31809  0 
rfkill                 13652  3 hp_wmi,cfg80211,bluetooth
snd                    47365  12 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_hda_codec          71701  2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_idt      45770  1 
snd_hda_intel          20127  2 
snd_hwdep               4795  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc          6180  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_pcm                61769  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                43447  0 
snd_seq_device          5056  1 snd_seq
snd_timer              15435  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
soundcore               5088  1 snd
ssb                    42089  1 b43
uinput                  5228  0 
usbserial              27711  4 qcserial,usb_wwan
usb_wwan                8194  1 qcserial
uvcvideo               48986  0 
v4l1_compat            11390  2 uvcvideo,videodev
video                  17730  1 i915
videodev               54469  1 uvcvideo
wmi                     6667  1 hp_wmi
[Helgast@HELLGAST ~]$

i try to follow like in your post [URL="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922&highlight=mini+210+wireles s+problem"/URL]
but probably i do something wrong and i dont now where,and the wifi still doesent work.
thx

stoat · #4 31st December 2010, 08:51 PM

You haven't installed the broadcom-wl driver. I think you should do that now. If you have a wired NIC connected to the Internet for this computer to do its own downloads, then start by installing the RPM Fusion repos. Just paste into your terminal the following commands that I copied from RPM Fusion...

Code:

su
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

After that, then you can install the broadcom-wl driver with this...

Code:

su
yum install akmod-wl

Then reboot and check the NetworkManager panel applet for available networks and connect.

Czarlji · #5 2nd January 2011, 09:29 AM

now i dont have wireless option in net manager

before i have but i can't connect to (grey thick box) after
add repo's and install driver like above , wireless option
just gone from net manager.
i update system with "soft update" ,it found update for
that from above ,but still nothing.

---------- Post added at 09:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:18 AM ----------

P.S.
wired connection works normal.

---------- Post added at 09:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 AM ----------

forget about that what i right down above.sorry.
i have option wireless net but still with grey thick box.
when i leftclick on netmanager i see under Wireless Networks -
"wireless is disabled".

stoat · #6 2nd January 2011, 02:26 PM

First, make sure the wl kernel module is being loaded...

Code:

lsmod | sort

If wl is not in that list, then try manually loading it...

Code:

su
modprobe wl
service NetworkManager restart

Wait a few seconds and check NetworkManager again for available networks.

If wl is in that list, then look for something disabling the wireless device. Some common examples...

A a BIOS setting
A physical on-off switch somewhere on the computer (Don't be insulted. People forget those all the time)
rfkill (see here http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=249577)
Something to enable in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

If you found something, then fix it and check NetworkManager again.

Qumran · #7 9th July 2011, 06:07 AM

Thank you! This worked perfectly on Fedora 15 also on the HP mini 210.