Mitac 8258D found wifi device

[quasitrou]

Hello guys!
Please help me to found true entries hardware wifi on my notebook.
command
#lspci | grep iwl
take nothing
but drivers exist in my canonic-kernel
# dmesg | grep iwl
iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds
iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
I don't strong this anything.
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Thank in adv.

[bbfuller]

Hello quasitrou

Usually, if "lspci |grep iwl" returns no output it would be because you have not got an iwl3945 based card in your machine.

Try running the command:

/sbin/lspci

and post back the parts relating to "ethernet" and "wireless" and we'll see if there are any clues there as to what is going on.

[quasitrou]

Yeah, I know/ Therefore I write the model notebook.

# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 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 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]
07:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
07:02.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 01)
07:02.3 Mass storage controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller (rev 01)
07:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)


# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:400:AB:51:9D
inet addr:192.168.18.11 Bcast:192.168.18.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:113801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:116720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:54376054 (51.8 MiB) TX bytes:29441182 (28.0 MiB)

gre0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
NOARP MTU:1476 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:39944 (39.0 KiB) TX bytes:39944 (39.0 KiB)

tunl0 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 56:97:0B:96:01:A2
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

tunl0 no wireless extensions.

gre0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.

[bbfuller]

Hello quasitrou

Well, I'm sure that like me, you have seen that there are no devices that can be identified as wireless networking listed by lspci.

Two possibilities still exist.

Is there a switch on the laptop for turning wireless off? Could that be in the off position?

Some manufacturers are soldering usb wireless adapters directly onto their motherboards. Try:

/sbin/lsusb

and see if that identifies anything.

[quasitrou]

lsusb say nothing.
# /sbin/lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:0111 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd

Hardware is up.

[bbfuller]

Hello quasitrou

Well, I'm afraid lsusb shows us nothing about wireless. The 04f2:0111 is assigned to a keyboard according to a web search.

Like you no doubt I've done a search on he internet and found a specification page here:

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/spec/spec_8258d.asp

that claims the machine has the 3945 wireless card in it that started this thread.

I can tell you that any other laptop with 3945 in it that I've come across lists it in lspci, and until you find a way of making that happen I really don't think you have a chance of getting the card to work.

I appreciate that the bios says "on at boot" and that the wireless light is lit. However, a good few wireless cards in Linux go the other way and work even though their indicator isn't lit so I don't think that's a reliable indicator.

I recall from some of the pages I've looked at that there is a combination of keys on the keyboard (Fn + F something) to control wireless as well, and that they don't work reliably under Linux. I wonder if that is turning your card off as far as Linux is concerned.

Sorry, I really don't know where you go from here except to suggest a USB or PCMCIA adapter as a temporary measure and hope linux catches up with your machine.

Except that if you search the internet on "Mitac 8258D Linux" you'll find several people having trouble but no answers.