Disconnected - You Are Now Offline

The most recent info on this card is about 10 years old.

The story is that I had an old dying PC with a vast accumulation of dust, causing sparks to fly.
I transferred the disk & wireless card across to a "known good PC" - and "amazingly" it worked.

This lasted for about a week.
OS is Xubuntu 12.04 and recommended updates of an unknown nature were applied from repositories & PPA's (not by me).

Soon after, wireless on the ancient Netgear wg311t PCI card failed.
I've tried moving it to a different slot - still does not work.
I've tried booting up from a Xubuntu 14.04.2 DVD - still does not work.
The two slots give slightly different results to the command Code:

dmesg | grep ath5k

First slot Code:

[   63.714417] ath5k 0000:05:06.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   63.733142] ath5k: phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip
[   63.733482] ath5k: probe of 0000:05:06.0 failed with error -5

Second slot Code:

[   13.594859] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC3] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   13.594943] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   13.606136] ath5k phy0: failed to wakeup the MAC Chip
[   13.606531] ath5k 0000:05:08.0: PCI INT A disabled
[   13.606768] ath5k: probe of 0000:05:08.0 failed with error -5

I'm prepared to buy a replacement card - so long as it is cheap!

I have a HP Compaq Presario CQ62-413NR. I have tried using many different distro's and I have the same problem. The networks will be seen and it will start to connect then it immediately gets disconnected. Tried everything on the Ubuntu forum and still nothing. The wifi works flawlessly with Windows though. The wireless card is an Atheros AR9285. I currently have Deepin Linux dual booted on my laptop with no Pro. Drivers for the card available in the settings. If anyone would like to assist me in getting this issue resolved I would greatly appreciate it. I am loving Linux OS!

First time Linux Mint user and fist time poster to this forum. Need to install a Linux distro on my family member's HP Mini 1000, an older netbook with minimal hardware (1 GB memory stick, Intel Atom N270 processor, 80 GB ATA HDD, and it runs XP SP3. . I advised her to uninstall XP and buy Windows 7, but she doesn't want to spend the $93. So ...

I have been testing different Linux distros from flash drive on my HP Probook 4530S laptop. Have tried Ubuntu 14x and now Mint, which I prefer. Ubuntu wouldn't boot to desktop on the netbook after choosing "Use without installing." Mint runs OK on it, but I can't configure the wireless connection. I suspect that either the network hardware isn't compatible or I am missing something when trying to manually configure the settings. I read some info from the Mint web site about this issue, but not sure about whether the Mini's wireless card is compatible: Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. Does updating Windows drivers help with this?

TIA,

Don

I have installed Linux Mint 17.1 Qiana Cinnamon on to a Compaq Presario R3000 and cannot use the wireless connection. I am totally lost. I can get the wired connection, but the wireless is not there. I have tried to establish the connection, but I do not understand the lingo like BSSID of my router. I have entered the MAC address but do not know how to clone it. Help!

i have an hp pavilion dv7 laptop and i installed openmandrivalx 14.1 x64 on it and cannot configure the wireless intel centrino wireless n-2230 adapter. Have downloaded the iwlwifi drivers but cannot install because the system cannot resolve the $MIRRORLIST problem.
This occurs on all mandriva based linux systems i hahe tried mageia with the same result. Mageia cannot even recognise the centrino adapter.
Ubuntu based linux systems install on the fly.
What good is an operating system in the modern era that you cannot connect to the internet seamlessly?

I am totally new to Linux. However, considering the many advantages of the operationg comparing to other OS, i have decided to go ahead with using MINT Rebacca which is the latest version. Initially for some time i did not have any issues in getting my internet connecton. However, for the last one week I am unable to connect through. The results of various terminal commands i applied is given below with a sincere trust somebody would be there to help me out.
----- anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ iwconfig eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSIDff/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff Power Managementn anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $

anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:90:62:b1 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB) TX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f8:a9:63:90:62:b1 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB) TX bytes:10689 (10.6 KB)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lshw -C network WARNING: you should run this program as super-user. *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 07 serial: f8:a9:63:90:62:b1 size: 10Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s resources: irq:57 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:b5600000-b5600fff memory:b5400000-b5403fff *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe vendor: Ralink corp. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 00 serial: 9c:ad:97:5b:16:45 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=0.37 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:16 memory:b5510000-b551ffff WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user. anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lshw -C Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.16 usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...] lshw -version
-version print program version (B.02.16)
format can be -html output hardware tree as HTML -xml output hardware tree as XML -short output hardware paths -businfo output bus information options can be -class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware -C CLASS same as '-class CLASS' -c CLASS same as '-class CLASS' -disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. ) -enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. ) -quiet don't display status -sanitize sanitize output (remove sensitive information like serial numbers, etc.) -numeric output numeric IDs (for PCI, USB, etc.)
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5776 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 004: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard Bus 002 Device 002: ID 24ae:2000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo lsusb [sudo] password for anil: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5776 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 004: ID 12d1:1505 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E398 LTE/UMTS/GSM Modem/Networkcard Bus 002 Device 002: ID 24ae:2000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub anil@anil-HP-15-Notebook-PC ~ $
Wth regards Anil Kumar

O/s: Xandros 3.0.3 Business
Laptop: Dellc840
Given: Wireless card recognized by laptop and executable driver file sitting waiting for installation.

Question:When I click on the .exe file (driver file) it opens and installs somewhere that I can't find, even with the Tools - Find Files/Folders option using the *.inf file format as a search handle.
How do I control where this file opens to? If I could control where it opens to, I could then find it to install it for use.

I have a laptop with an integrated GMA3600 GPU. Every "modern" distro was unusable because the screen would flicker and black out like crazy, so I installed one of the few that didn't present this behaviour -- Crunchbang 11, based on Wheezy.

I'm trying to address this issue; I'll compare a few outputs from 1) my current setup (Crunchbang) and 2) one of the non-working alternatives (Lubuntu 14.10 on a live USB):

uname -r
1) 3.2.0-4-686-pae
2) 3.16.0-23-generic

sudo lshw -c video
1)
Code:

description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0b
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=gma500 latency=0
       resources: irq:46 memory:80100000-801fffff ioport:30c0(size=8)

2)
Code:

*-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0b
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=gma500 latency=0
       resources: irq:45 memory:80100000-801fffff ioport:30c0(size=8)

The only difference is the IRQ used.

cat /proc/interrupts
1)
Code:

           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:         41          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:        517          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:       7245          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:       2597          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 19:      13520          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb3
 23:      26138          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
 44:        369          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
 45:        255          0   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
NMI:         69         47   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:      27594      20371   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:         69         47   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          0          0   IRQ work interrupts
RES:      33502      39919   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:        407       6719   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1138       1213   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          1          1   Machine check polls
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

2)
Code:

           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:         46          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:       2154          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:      37131          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:      11292          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 19:       1309         11   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb3
 23:      20420       6875   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
 44:      15634          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
 45:          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      gma500
 46:        194          0   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
NMI:        147        132   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:      70348      59679   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:        147        132   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          1          0   IRQ work interrupts
RTR:          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
RES:      20827      27012   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:       1802       2767   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1875       1439   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          4          4   Machine check polls
THR:          0          0   Hypervisor callback interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

dmesg | grep -i video
1)
Code:

[    0.378029] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[    6.579368] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    6.614256] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[    6.616059] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    6.616064] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

2)
Code:

[    0.338661] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[   11.048529] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   11.049314] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input10
[   36.372066] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   36.908529] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[   36.961726] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   36.961733] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[   38.262977] systemd-logind[1547]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event5 (Video Bus)

dmesg | grep -i gma
1)
Code:

[    5.465696] gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    5.465749] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[    5.466125] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[    5.958548] gma500 0000:00:02.0: allocated 1280x800 fb
[    6.402676] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 2011-06-06 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

2)
Code:

[   11.030830] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[   11.030934] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[   11.420011] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[   11.420060] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[   12.016034] gma500 0000:00:02.0: fb0: psbdrmfb frame buffer device
[   12.016039] gma500 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[   12.045847] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 20140314 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

The last output hints that some problem is indeed detected but I don't know what to do from here.

EDIT: forgot to mention that the Lubuntu boot menu screen (this one) presents no flickering issues.

Wireless mouse and wireless keyboard is not working in Linux distro's.

Read the similar threads on this issue. Boot mode is set for UEFI and Legacy therefore not sure what to do to enable mouse and keyboard? The mouse and keyboard use the same 'receiver' and the receiver indicator is green when Linux distro is fully loaded. Have tried various distro's, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu based distro's using LIVE DVD method on all. Latest distro tried is Peach 14.04.1 TW.40 64 bit. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, CPU AMD FX6300 3.5 Ghz six core.

Thanks for any assistance.

jmwrocky

Hi everyone, I am a new member and also new to linux, I encountered a problem, but last week I tried but did not solve
I downloaded iso file linux 1.1.0 on page potassium https://www.kali.org, I installed on my Dell inspiron n4010, it works very well and does not have any errors, but after I update and upgrade all packages, I rebooted the system switches to the command line, I lost a lot of time to return to the graphics, but when booting up the network manager icon not seen, I have set the package network-manager-gnome_0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb network manager icon show but when click on the network manager icon only contained text "network manager is not running."
I also installed Wicd but could not run "could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for error messages."
wireless driver apparently was set before
root@kali:~# airmon-ng
PHY Interface Driver Chipset

phy0 wlan0 wl Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

please help me!
please guide installed offline, my kali linux no internet connection. can download package from another machine to install.