Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
On Sunday 28 June 2015 12:59:39 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sunday 28 June 2015 11:04:17 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >> On my old Hyundai laptop there seems to be no WiFi interface at all:
> >> there's no wlan0 entry in ifconfig's output:
> >>
> >> # ifconfig -a
> >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0d:33:02:17
> >> inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> >> inet6 addr: fe80::203:dff:fe33:217/64 Scope:Link
> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:31034 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:32671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >> RX bytes:27149691 (25.8 MiB) TX bytes:6133808 (5.8 MiB)
> >>
> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
> >> RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >> TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >> RX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB) TX bytes:18333 (17.9 KiB)
> >>
> >> , and also
> >>
> >> # lshw -c network
> >> *-network
> >> description: Ethernet interface
> >> product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
> >> vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
> >> physical id: 4
> >> bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
> >> logical name: eth0
> >> version: 91
> >> serial: 00:03:0d:33:02:17
> >> size: 100Mbit/s
> >> capacity: 100Mbit/s
> >> width: 32 bits
> >> clock: 33MHz
> >> capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii
> >> 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration:
> >> autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10
> >> Apr. 2 2006 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=11
> >> mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:19
> >> ioport:d800(size=256) memory:dfffc000-dfffcfff memory:dffc0000-dffdffff
> >>
> >> shows up - as far as I understand - nothing about WiFi.
> >>
> >> Please help abilitate WiFi connection on that PC. With google I
> >> couldn't work it out.
> >
> > Have you got the driver for your wifi card? and is it installed?
>
> I really don't know. Here's also
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:
>
> # PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="00:03:0d:33:02:17", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1",
> KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>
> # USB device 0x:0x (r8188eu)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="14:cc:20:11:82:ec", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1",
> KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
>
> Help appreciated.
Is your card internal? Is it external? Do you know what it is? Do you know
for sure that it is working? If it is external, what lights are showing?
Lisi
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