Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/13 09:12, Dave Morley wrote: > On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: >> jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft >> blocked: no Hard blocked: yes > >> I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is >> it possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to >> a specific kind of wireless card? > > Is it a uefi + secure booted laptop? If so then it might be that > the hardware needs to be registered somehow in order to be valid. > Just thinking out loud. No, it's a bog-standard old-fashioned BIOS. There is a toggle in there for the wireless, but it doesn't seem to do anything. On 11/07/13 09:22, pete smout wrote: > My Acer laptop (intel Wifi card) suffered wifi probs on 12.04, > never did get to the bottom of it, but upgrading to 13.04 solved > it! I know this is not necessarily a solution but if you can pin > down what has changed between the versions it might help (I have to > admit once it 'fixed itself' I stopped looking!) if it helps ill > post the output of some helpful commands below, and if you want any > other info I would be happy to provide it. pete@petes-lappy:~$ > lspci Yes, this might be useful: jtait@mothership:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) 14:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) jtait@mothership:~$ sudo lspci -vvv [snip] 14:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- pete@petes-lappy:~$ rfkill list 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft > blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: > no Hard blocked: no That's interesting - is it usual to have $(VENDOR)-wireless and phy$(IF_NUM)? I don't have an equivalent toshiba-wireless, but the EeePC does have eeepc-wlan. > I have just found some interesting ideas here: > http://www.linuxplained.com/how-to-fix-wireless-problems-in-ubuntu-1204-precise-pangolin/ > > (why I could not find these when I was suffering I have no idea!) > but the one about disabling power saver on the wifi card makes > sense to me! I don't recognise the page, but I do recognise the suggestions: jtait@mothership:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan2 power off Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) : SET failed on device wlan2 ; Operation not supported. jtait@mothership:~$ sudo modprobe -r iwl4965 jtait@mothership:~$ sudo modprobe iwl4965 11n_disable=1 jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes Something seems to be missing at a fairly low level. I install laptop-mode-tools on the off-chance it would pull in some magical fix, but it didn't. I'll give 13.04 a crack, as s
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?
On 11/07/13 09:22, pete smout wrote: On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem might be. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 with the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was disabled: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and tried that, but the result was the same: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a specific kind of wireless card? JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc| xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHd6kUACgkQyDo4xMNTLibh2wCfWr8NwbhGJzcGQZYZA5nrcURS WAsAoODMMA/GGCd2lMSPZ6TjGpxld+ef =8BRb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi, My Acer laptop (intel Wifi card) suffered wifi probs on 12.04, never did get to the bottom of it, but upgrading to 13.04 solved it! I know this is not necessarily a solution but if you can pin down what has changed between the versions it might help (I have to admit once it 'fixed itself' I stopped looking!) if it helps ill post the output of some helpful commands below, and if you want any other info I would be happy to provide it. pete@petes-lappy:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) 07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 07:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 07:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 07:
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?
On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem might be. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 with the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was disabled: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and tried that, but the result was the same: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a specific kind of wireless card? JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHd6kUACgkQyDo4xMNTLibh2wCfWr8NwbhGJzcGQZYZA5nrcURS WAsAoODMMA/GGCd2lMSPZ6TjGpxld+ef =8BRb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi, My Acer laptop (intel Wifi card) suffered wifi probs on 12.04, never did get to the bottom of it, but upgrading to 13.04 solved it! I know this is not necessarily a solution but if you can pin down what has changed between the versions it might help (I have to admit once it 'fixed itself' I stopped looking!) if it helps ill post the output of some helpful commands below, and if you want any other info I would be happy to provide it. pete@petes-lappy:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) 07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 07:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 07:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 07:00
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless > issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have > numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have > the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected > to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the > laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem > might be. > > The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 > with the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless > card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the > Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was > apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was > disabled: > > jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: > no Hard blocked: yes > > rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard > blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, > and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a > setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I > picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and > tried that, but the result was the same: > > jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: > no Hard blocked: yes > > I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it > possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a > specific kind of wireless card? > > JT > Is it a uefi + secure booted laptop? If so then it might be that the hardware needs to be registered somehow in order to be valid. Just thinking out loud. - -- You make it, I'll break it! I love my job :) http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.canonical.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHeaMgACgkQT5xqyT+h3OjZ9wCfRskytKtqWQk/bBna3Rx00exY v0YAn27UzgGlwHyVB4ZnZGF3zVFnuBeg =QSzN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem might be. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 with the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was disabled: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and tried that, but the result was the same: jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a specific kind of wireless card? JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHd6kUACgkQyDo4xMNTLibh2wCfWr8NwbhGJzcGQZYZA5nrcURS WAsAoODMMA/GGCd2lMSPZ6TjGpxld+ef =8BRb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
