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UNCLAIMED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01) not working on Dell Inspiron 1018 in Ubuntu 10.10

Asked by carney

I'm not a computer genius, and need help getting my wireless to work again on my netbook since changing to Ubuntu.
Do I need to download a driver?
Thanks

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

Probably. please post the results of the following commands in a terminal (start one with ctrl-alt-t):
rfkill list
sudo lshw -C network

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi,

Please first connect your wired network adapter to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word lsmod. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

Tip: If you have a wheel mouse or 3 button mouse you do not need to type commands into the Terminal. Highlight the command written on the page. Move your cursor anywhere in the Terminal and press the wheel or middle button. Automatic Copy and paste! No spelling mistakes! No Typos! No other errors!

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl'; iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread. The troubleshooters here need to see the full Terminal output from running the above command.

Step 4: Please also specify the exact model and make of your PC (if known) on this thread (Dell Inspiron Mini 1010, 1011, 1012 or 1018???)

Step 5: Please also clarify if you installed Ubuntu to the harddisk and are running from a harddisk install OR if you are only testing Ubuntu in a LiveCD session.

Regards,

Mark

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#3

I pasted the entire command, but am still not receiving any notice of my wireless working.

I forgot to copy what showed up on the terminal the first time so I did it again. Here's the copy..
 sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl'; iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod
[sudo] password for carney:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for carney:
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [197B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_CA
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1,347B]
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages [1,097B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com maverick-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main Translation-en
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grep is already the newest version.
hwinfo is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
  *-network

It's an Inspiron1018

I fully installed inbuntu onto my hardrive

Thanks for the help. Should it pick up a signal on it's own..

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#4

rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
carney@carney-Inspiron-1018:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for carney:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 5c:26:0a:4a:9a:65
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd 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=full ip=192.168.0.78 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0f2c000-f0f2cfff memory:f0f18000-f0f1bfff
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff
carney@carney-Inspiron-1018:~$

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

Could you please send us the FULL Terminal output from the command I gave you? You only gave us a few bits and pieces, not the whole output....

Here is the correct command to execute:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl'; iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep 'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod

Please do NOT cut the command into pieces.....

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#6

Please make sure to wait long enough so that the command gets the opportunity to display the WHOLE output.

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#7

carney@carney-Inspiron-1018:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -Cnetwork; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces;cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a;dmesg | egrep'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl';iwconfig; cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep'acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl';sudo hwinfo --netcard ; cat/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state; sudo lsmod
[sudo] password for carney:
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [197B]
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Fetched 2,641B in 1s (1,776B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
hwinfo is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.14
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
       lshw -version

 -version print program version (B.02.14)

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.)

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 174f:1127 Syntek
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
=========================================================
                                  system Inspiron 1018
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/1 memory 103KiB BIOS
/0/3 bus 0GHG2G
/0/5 processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N455 @ 1.66GHz
/0/5/6 memory 16KiB L1 cache
/0/5/7 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/5/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/5/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/12 memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/12/0 memory 1GiB SODIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/100 bridge N10 Family DMI Bridge
/0/100/2 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/1c.1 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 network Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge NM10 Family LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 250GB WDC WD2500BEVT-7
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 229GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 2997MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 2997MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/0 scsi4 storage
/0/0/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk SCSI Disk
/1 power SmartBattery
/2 system
Linux carney-Inspiron-1018 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
egrepacx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|ound|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|usb|witch|wl: command not found
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

egrepacx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl: command not found
23: PCI 500.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10ec_8136
  Unique ID: rBUF.mZl4xw06kA0
  Parent ID: z8Q3.FgcGjuhdWyB
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:05:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:05:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
  Device: pci 0x8136 "RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x048e
  Revision: 0x05
  Driver: "r8169"
  Driver Modules: "r8169"
  Device File: eth0
  I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x2fff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf0f2c000-0xf0f2cfff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf0f18000-0xf0f1bfff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 42 (10796 events)
  HW Address: 5c:26:0a:4a:9a:65
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010ECd00008136sv00001028sd0000048Ebc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: r8169 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8169"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #12 (PCI bridge)

24: PCI 700.0: 0280 Network controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10ec_8176
  Unique ID: aK5u.xeppG3LhUg7
  Parent ID: qTvu.HVVmg1x1ajC
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:07:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Realtek Network controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
  Device: pci 0x8176
  SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
  SubDevice: pci 0x8198
  Revision: 0x01
  I/O Ports: 0x3000-0x3fff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf0100000-0xf0103fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 4 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010ECd00008176sv00001028sd00008198bc02sc80i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)
bash: cat/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state: No such file or directory
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6599 1
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 218492 1
joydev 8767 0
snd_hda_intel 22235 2
snd_hda_codec 87552 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
i915 295435 5
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
drm 168060 5 i915,drm_kms_helper
uvcvideo 55847 0
snd 49038 13 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
dell_laptop 5730 0
dcdbas 5402 1 dell_laptop
videodev 43098 1 uvcvideo
intel_agp 26566 2 i915
psmouse 59033 0
soundcore 880 1 snd
v4l1_compat 13359 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
video 18712 1 i915
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
serio_raw 4022 0
output 1883 1 video
lp 7342 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usb_storage 40204 0
ahci 19198 2
r8169 36521 0
libahci 21728 1 ahci
mii 4425 1 r8169

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#8

Copy-paste the following commands into the Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wireless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms

Then reboot your PC and retest wireless.

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#9

carney@carney-Inspiron-1018:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wirelesssudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms
[sudo] password for carney:
Error: need a repository as argument
carney@carney-Inspiron-1018:~$

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#10

The three commands you enter all should start with sudo,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wireless

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#11

Changing thread status to "answered".

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#12

Sorry,
I see what I was doing wrong.
Thank-you for the help!

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carney (tuckerless) said : 		#13

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.