Wicd

[Chris]

Can someone provide me with a step by step guide for idiots on how to install wicd...Network Manager will not recognize that I even have wireless..My wireless works in almost all the other distros I have tried.

[atolboo]

I don´t think that this will be solved with the installation of wicd because it means that there is no driver for your wirless device present.
And because of this: What is the type of wireless
Now it´s time to go to

[Chris]

802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R) ...that is all I can find. I have a HP Pavilion G7 laptop

[Anglo]

G'day Chris
 Try this: open a terminal  ( konsole will do) ,on the command line type "dmesg | less ".
This gives you a screenful of information , including hardware.
If you don't know what you are looking at , then type this ( both cases ,do not include the " " )
"dmesg > text.txt". You can then  include that (text.txt ) in your next message.

anglophony

[atolboo]

802.11b/g/n WLAN.......

This means it complying to this standard but it does not say which type of wireless device is installed.
Open a konsole and give the command

Code:

lspci

and post the result here.

[Chris]

0:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648
00:01.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device 1714
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Port
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Port
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Port
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson Azalia Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson LPC Bridge (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:16.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB OHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:16.2 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Hudson USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

this is what i got

[atolboo]

This means it´s about the RTL8188CE.
And the maker ¨Realtek¨ is always providing driver for Linux.
Will be be investigated further tomorrow after a night of

[Chris]

Thank you Atolboo

[atolboo]

Maybe this is a stupid question.
Are you sure that wireless is not disabled by the Fn+F? keys

[John A]

It's some here to:
http://forums.techguy.org/networking/633544-having-problem-hp-pavilion-wireless.html

I used a Dell laptop one time and the wireless stop working. I spent a day to figure out why, go in at every system and network settings avaible but nothing worked..

It was a button at the keyboard that disable the wireless function.
Someone or myself probaly had touch it by mistake.

But was not easy to find that out.

[atolboo]

What's the result of

Code:

lsmod | grep rtl81

[Chris]

usgrossetofc@Bunny13-Pardus ~ $ lsmod | grep rtl81
usgrossetofc@Bunny13-Pardus ~ $


that is exactly the result. Doesnt do anything.

[atolboo]

This means that either the driver is not loaded or not present in the kernel.
And the later I don´t expect (unless the Pardus kernel-builders did forget it).
Investigation continues.....

[atolboo]

Investigation continues.....

Progress report....
On  http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#supported-r8192-pci I

rtl8192ce (supported devices)

    Supports PCI-E devices based on the RTL8188CE and RTL8192CE chipsets.

    Introduced in Linux 2.6.38,7 enabled at linux-2.6 & 2.6.38-2.

And Pardus has

atolboo@pardus2011 ~ $ uname -r
2.6.37.6

This means (by default) it's not present in the current kernel of Pardus.
It should be present somewhere in /lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
Now I am going to investigate if it can be build on the spot.
But now I know where to look (=rtl8192ce) for.
Investigation continues after

[Chris]

And again thank you for your time! This is by far the friendliest distro as far as help that I have encountered.