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WiFi on Asus A2H

NicoBu
NicoBu Posts: 4
in Networking

Network wirless utilit (Harware Lister) vision that:

"

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?

Comments

  • asedt
    asedt Posts: 96
    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
    atreyu Posts: 216
    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
    Goineasy9 Posts: 1,114
    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
    NicoBu Posts: 4
    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
    NicoBu Posts: 4
    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
    Goineasy9 Posts: 1,114
    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
    NicoBu Posts: 4
    Any time ago I download driver from driver automaticaly application on Interface my Ubuntu. But card is don`t work...
  • asedt
    asedt Posts: 96
    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

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