Hello all,
I have an off brand laptop that I have just formatted and installed Kubuntu (first time ever a non-Microsoft OS). There are a number of issues to resolve and I am happy to be learning this new operating system. First on my list is the wireless.
#1 it does not work (obviously), nor does it appear in the network connections, although neither does the NIC card, but it is working. However the NIC has a physical address (eth0) and the wireless does not
#2 From reading through all the 'wireless' and 'unclaimed' posts I have pasted information that is requested most often by those who are assisting.
#3 From what I am reading, the computer and the OS see the RaLink rt2500pci, but no driver is loaded, I have the drivers downloaded and saved onto the drive but don't get how to install them. I am afraid that I still think in Windows terms.
#4 Thanks very much to any and all that help or respond.
First...lshw
gadget-laptop
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 447MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.3.4
serial: 0000-0F34-0000-0000-0000-0000
size: 2800MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc up pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
configuration: id=0
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 11
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-sis latency=32
resources: irq:0 memory:f0000000-f3ffffff
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master
resources: ioport:c000(size=8192) memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff(prefetchable)
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:a0000000-a7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:e0000000-e001ffff ioport:c000(size=128)
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO]
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 25
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=sis96x_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:0 ioport:1400(size=32)
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 5513 [IDE]
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.5
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=pata_sis latency=128
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:1100(size=16)
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Modem
product: AC'97 Modem Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.6
version: a0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52
resources: ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:e100(size=128)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: AC'97 Sound Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.7
version: a0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52
resources: irq:18 ioport:e200(size=256) ioport:e300(size=128)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
version: 0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:20 memory:f4000000-f4000fff
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.1
version: 0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:21 memory:f4001000-f4001fff
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: USB 2.0 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=128 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:23 memory:f4002000-f4002fff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 91
serial: 00:40:d0:61:06:1a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 ip=192.168.0.7 latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes
resources: irq:19 ioport:e400(size=256) memory:f4003000-f4003fff memory:24000000-2401ffff(prefetchable)
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192
resources: irq:17 memory:24020000-24020fff ioport:1800(size=256) ioport:1c00(size=256) memory:1c000000-1fffffff(prefetchable) memory:20000000-23ffffff
*-network:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=64
resources: memory:ffffe000-ffffffff
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
Next...ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:d0:61:06:1a
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:d0ff:fe61:61a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:36385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:37634934 (37.6 MB) TX bytes:4970356 (4.9 MB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe400
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4840 (4.8 KB) TX bytes:4840 (4.8 KB)
Finally...lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3740 1
nls_cp437 5372 1
vfat 10716 1
fat 51452 1 vfat
usb_storage 52544 1
ppdev 6688 0
snd_intel8x0 30168 2
snd_ac97_codec 101216 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1532 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
rt2500pci 15356 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
rt2x00pci 7900 1 rt2500pci
iptable_filter 3100 0
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
rt2x00lib 29756 2 rt2500pci,rt2x00pci
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
led_class 4096 1 rt2x00lib
pcmcia 36808 0
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
input_polldev 3716 1 rt2x00lib
joydev 10272 0
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd 59204 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
mac80211 181236 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
yenta_socket 24200 1
cfg80211 93052 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 1916 1 rt2500pci
soundcore 7264 1 snd
i2c_sis96x 3904 0
rsrc_nonstatic 11644 1 yenta_socket
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
psmouse 56180 0
lp 8964 0
pcmcia_core 35792 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
shpchp 32272 0
serio_raw 5280 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
sis900 19932 0
mii 5212 1 sis900
sis_agp 6972 1
agpgart 34988 1 sis_agp
Thanks again for any assistance
I have an off brand laptop that I have just formatted and installed Kubuntu (first time ever a non-Microsoft OS). There are a number of issues to resolve and I am happy to be learning this new operating system. First on my list is the wireless.
#1 it does not work (obviously), nor does it appear in the network connections, although neither does the NIC card, but it is working. However the NIC has a physical address (eth0) and the wireless does not
#2 From reading through all the 'wireless' and 'unclaimed' posts I have pasted information that is requested most often by those who are assisting.
#3 From what I am reading, the computer and the OS see the RaLink rt2500pci, but no driver is loaded, I have the drivers downloaded and saved onto the drive but don't get how to install them. I am afraid that I still think in Windows terms.
#4 Thanks very much to any and all that help or respond.
First...lshw
gadget-laptop
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 447MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.3.4
serial: 0000-0F34-0000-0000-0000-0000
size: 2800MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc up pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
configuration: id=0
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 11
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-sis latency=32
resources: irq:0 memory:f0000000-f3ffffff
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master
resources: ioport:c000(size=8192) memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff(prefetchable)
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:a0000000-a7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:e0000000-e001ffff ioport:c000(size=128)
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO]
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 25
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=sis96x_smbus latency=0
resources: irq:0 ioport:1400(size=32)
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 5513 [IDE]
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.5
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=pata_sis latency=128
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:1100(size=16)
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Modem
product: AC'97 Modem Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.6
version: a0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52
resources: ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:e100(size=128)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: AC'97 Sound Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.7
version: a0
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52
resources: irq:18 ioport:e200(size=256) ioport:e300(size=128)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.0
version: 0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:20 memory:f4000000-f4000fff
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: USB 1.1 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.1
version: 0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:21 memory:f4001000-f4001fff
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: USB 2.0 Controller
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 3.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:03.3
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=128 maxlatency=80
resources: irq:23 memory:f4002000-f4002fff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 91
serial: 00:40:d0:61:06:1a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 ip=192.168.0.7 latency=128 maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes
resources: irq:19 ioport:e400(size=256) memory:f4003000-f4003fff memory:24000000-2401ffff(prefetchable)
*-pcmcia
description: CardBus bridge
product: PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus latency=176 maxlatency=5 mingnt=192
resources: irq:17 memory:24020000-24020fff ioport:1800(size=256) ioport:1c00(size=256) memory:1c000000-1fffffff(prefetchable) memory:20000000-23ffffff
*-network:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: cap_list
configuration: latency=64
resources: memory:ffffe000-ffffffff
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
Next...ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:d0:61:06:1a
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:d0ff:fe61:61a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:36385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:37634934 (37.6 MB) TX bytes:4970356 (4.9 MB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe400
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4840 (4.8 KB) TX bytes:4840 (4.8 KB)
Finally...lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 3740 1
nls_cp437 5372 1
vfat 10716 1
fat 51452 1 vfat
usb_storage 52544 1
ppdev 6688 0
snd_intel8x0 30168 2
snd_ac97_codec 101216 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1532 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
rt2500pci 15356 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
rt2x00pci 7900 1 rt2500pci
iptable_filter 3100 0
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
rt2x00lib 29756 2 rt2500pci,rt2x00pci
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
led_class 4096 1 rt2x00lib
pcmcia 36808 0
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
input_polldev 3716 1 rt2x00lib
joydev 10272 0
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd 59204 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
mac80211 181236 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
yenta_socket 24200 1
cfg80211 93052 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 1916 1 rt2500pci
soundcore 7264 1 snd
i2c_sis96x 3904 0
rsrc_nonstatic 11644 1 yenta_socket
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
psmouse 56180 0
lp 8964 0
pcmcia_core 35792 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
shpchp 32272 0
serio_raw 5280 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
sis900 19932 0
mii 5212 1 sis900
sis_agp 6972 1
agpgart 34988 1 sis_agp
Thanks again for any assistance
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