New User with Wifi Problems
Posted: 8. Mar 2016, 04:30
I'm a new user to Salix, been a Ubuntu and Debian user for a while but I have never had a wifi or networking issue, luckily. So, I am a little green with the steps and tools to trouble shoot this.
I just installed a full Salix installation on my old HP EliteBook 6930p and the only issue right now seems to be connecting to wifi.
I have looked through a few other questions and this is what I have tried:
I can see that my wireless card is a intel 5300:
From another question I went to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rs/iwlwifi and found the driver I needed (iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz). I extracted the contents, and moved the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode to /lib/firmware, which now contains
When I click on the wicd icon in the top bar (MATE bar) the button to turn on or off the wifi does not appear to do anything. My wifi button at the top of my keyboard is constantly amber and doesn't appear to do anything either.
When I look at ifconfig I don't see wlan0 at all.
When I look at iwconfig it looks like it definetly confirms that the wifi is powered off on my machine:
In the getting started pdf it mentions that you have to enable the wifi radio with the sudo servicesetup utility. When I type that in the terminal I go to a curses like prompt and the wireless box is already checked.
The wicd Network manager says no wireless networks found.
Some other questions mentioned the rfkill command but that doesn't appear to be installed here, is that a helpfull package to insatll?
Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be very appreciated.
Thank you.
I just installed a full Salix installation on my old HP EliteBook 6930p and the only issue right now seems to be connecting to wifi.
I have looked through a few other questions and this is what I have tried:
I can see that my wireless card is a intel 5300:
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jesse[~]$ lspci | grep Network
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
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jesse[~]$ ls /lib/firmware | grep iwlwifi-5000
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
When I look at ifconfig I don't see wlan0 at all.
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esse[~]$ ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.112 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::223:7dff:fe97:2655 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:23:7d:97:26:55 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 410846 bytes 544246091 (519.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 28 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 245862 bytes 24055610 (22.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 22 memory 0xd0400000-d0420000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 60654 bytes 4669844 (4.4 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 60654 bytes 4669844 (4.4 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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jesse[~]$ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
The wicd Network manager says no wireless networks found.
Some other questions mentioned the rfkill command but that doesn't appear to be installed here, is that a helpfull package to insatll?
Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be very appreciated.
Thank you.