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lmart

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 61

wifi - my nemesis since 1.0

booted 4.0 LiveCD, connected to wifi, thought my nemesis was gone ...

shutdown, rebooted LiveCD, wifi noworkee!

need step-by-step howto manually connect wifi via terminal

thanks

lmart

Member

Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 61

Re: wifi - my nemesis since 1.0

lspci -nn >wifi.txt

tazhw detect-usb >>wifi.txt

tazhw detect-pci >>wifi.txt

lsmod >>wifi.txt

iwconfig >>wifi.txt

output of above commands; ?where do you learn what all of the following means?

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 03)

00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)

00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02)

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 02)

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 02)

02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)

Detected USB devices Kernel modules

================================================================================

Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter

> Module in use:   rt73usb

================================================================================

Detected PCI devices Kernel modules

================================================================================

> Module in use:   intel_agp

> Module in use:   i915

> Module in use:   snd_intel8x0

================================================================================

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted

parport_pc             16061  0

floppy                 41138  0

parport                20983  1 parport_pc

rt73usb                17713  0

crc_itu_t                985  1 rt73usb

rt2x00usb               5720  1 rt73usb

rt2x00lib              20851  2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb

mac80211              145388  2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib

cfg80211               99896  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211

rfkill                 10682  1 cfg80211

snd_intel8x0           19786  1

snd_ac97_codec         77963  1 snd_intel8x0

ac97_bus                 718  1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_pcm                43737  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec

snd_timer              12515  1 snd_pcm

snd                    33394  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer

soundcore               3357  1 snd

snd_page_alloc          4853  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

i915                  254040  2

drm_kms_helper         18798  1 i915

drm                   111992  3 i915,drm_kms_helper

i2c_algo_bit            3479  1 i915

button                  3602  1 i915

i2c_core               12192  4 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit

video                   9783  1 i915

output                  1144  1 video

intel_agp               7908  1 i915

intel_gtt               9214  3 i915,intel_agp

agpgart                18221  3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"398VC"

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:on

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Re: wifi - my nemesis since 1.0

I have spent the last two hours trying to get my wireless to work too. I echo the call for help :-)