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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-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48
Region 0: Memory at f2200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 00000000fee0100c Data: 4172
Capabilities: [e0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns,
L1
unlimited
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+
TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency
L0
<128ns, L1 <64us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain-
CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+
DLActive-
BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF-
MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF-
MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+
MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap- CGenEn- ChkCap- ChkEn-
Capabilities: [140 v1] Device Serial Number 00-13-e8-ff-ff-0e-31-a7
Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
Kernel modules: iwl4965
> 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 soon as I have media
available to boot from. :)
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
JT
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