WiFi on Asus A2H

NicoBu

Network wirless utilit (Harware Lister) vision that:

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Wireless interface

/1

logical name: wlan0

serial: 00:0c:6e:7a:1c:3a

capabilities:

ethernet,

Physical interface,

Wireless-LAN

configuration:

broadcast: yes

multicast: yes

wireless: IEEE 802.11b

this device has been disabled

"

How I may enebled this device?

asedt

Hi,

First check here:
http://support.asus.com/Specification.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=A2H&p=3&s=28&hashedid=1GpEdjg9wmum1DfV

As you can see, your fist thing to test is:
Hot Keys: -Fn+F2 Wireless switch

If that not works, can you provide more information about your system, what Linux distribution are you running?
If you don't know test to run "lsb_release -a" and "uname -a" in the terminal.

Also you can test to run "iwconfig" in the terminal to get some info.

atreyu

Try what Aron said, but also, if the device merely needs to be started:

ifup wlan0

or

ifconfig wlan0 up

also, check the BIOS for a wireless device setting that maybe disabled.

-bill

Goineasy9

On my Dell laptops, I have physical switches. One is an led light that I have to touch, the other is a toggle switch, make sure yours is enabled. As said in the posts above, it could also be a setting in the bios, but, on modern day machines, there should be a physical switch.

If you could give us the output of:

lspci | grep -i net

We can see what adapter your using and give you additional help.

BTW - With the different outputs for wifi adapters, if lspci | grep -i net does't give you any output, try:

lspci | grep -i wire

or

lspci | grep -i wifi

The more help you give us, the more we can give you.

NicoBu

nico@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

nico@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 21:30:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

nico@ubuntu:~$ ifup wlan0
ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied

nico@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: –û—Ç–∫–∞–∑–∞–Ω–æ –≤ –¥–æ—Å—Ç—É–ø–µ

nico@ubuntu:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[sudo] password for nico:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: error 132

nico@ubuntu:~$ sudo su

root@ubuntu:/home/nico# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: error 132

root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i net
00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12)

root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i wire
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

root@ubuntu:/home/nico# lspci | grep -i wifi

root@ubuntu:/home/nico# exit
exit
nico@ubuntu:~$

NicoBu

Not have wirless switch? combo "Fn+F2" not take a result...

In BIOS not have Wirless menu.

Windows 7 find WiFi without anything. I only install a driver to WiFi and rebooting comp...

Goineasy9

Well broadcom drivers are proprietary and so do not come embedded in Linux. Have you tried installing the broadcom-wl driver? It should be in one of the Ubuntu repos, I can't remember the proper name for it, but it would be the one that contains the non-free software.

NicoBu

Any time ago I download driver from driver automaticaly application on Interface my Ubuntu. But card is don`t work...

asedt

There is nice Ubuntu help pages about this, you should check them out:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide/Drivers <- check out section 3.2!

Try whats in these guides if you don't have done so already and post your results here if you still have problems.

Edit also see:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43