Wireless not working Dell Inspiron 5100 Ubuntu 11.10
I just installed Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron5100 with Netgear PC Card. From this diagnostic, it appears that the device is seen but it is not working. Any help is appreciated.
Output from terminal after running diagnostics:
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hwinfo libhal1 libhd16
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Selecting previously deselected package libhal1.
(Reading database ... 150880 files and directories currently installed.)
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*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401 100Base-T
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0d:56:37:c9:50
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:7 memory:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow]
vendor: Intersil Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: memory:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845G/
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57]
02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T [14e4:4401] (rev 01)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac44] (rev 02)
02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller [104c:8029]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] [1260:3890] (rev 01)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 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 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
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/0 bus 09U808
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
/0/400/700 memory 8KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/1000 memory 512MiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 256MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MH
/0/1000/1 memory 256MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MH
/0/100 bridge 82845G/
/0/100/1 bridge 82845G/
/0/100/1/0 display Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobi
/0/100/1d bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHC
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/1 eth0 network BCM4401 100Base-T
/0/100/1e/4 bridge PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller
/0/100/1e/4.1 bus PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
/0/100/1f bridge 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Inte
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0 /dev/cdrom disk CDRW/DVD SBW-242
/0/100/1f.1/1 /dev/sda disk 40GB FUJITSU MHV2040A
/0/100/1f.1/1/1 /dev/sda1 volume 36GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.1/1/2 /dev/sda2 volume 510MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.1/1/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 510MiB Linux swap / Solaris partit
/0/100/1f.5 multimedia 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1f.6 communication 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/1 network ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/IS
/1 power DELL 0009Y6
Linux joe-Inspiron-5100 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:25:36 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[ 0.008744] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.100474] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.100478] HEST: Table not found.
[ 0.110127] * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 0.110130] * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround
[ 0.119877] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.119893] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.119934] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.120438] Switching to clocksource pit
[ 0.138820] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 0.175871] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm
[ 0.179591] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.253907] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.254194] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.258189] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.380766] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.381314] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.381888] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.382396] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.943579] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.078007] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.196148] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 1.460141] ssb: Core 0 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.460150] ssb: Core 1 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.460156] ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.500212] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:01.0
[ 1.521102] b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:56:37:c9:50
[ 6.607527] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 7.226996] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.
[ 8.948124] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:04.0: CardBus bridge found [1028:0149]
[ 10.141417] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 13.917382] p54pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 13.917402] p54pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[ 13.917418] p54pci 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 13.921028] p54pci 0000:03:00.0: Cannot find firmware (isl3886pci)
[ 13.927215] p54pci 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 13.927229] p54pci: probe of 0000:03:00.0 failed with error -2
[ 25.613224] ADDRCONF(
[ 26.166543] type=1400 audit(132261472
[ 26.167210] type=1400 audit(132261472
[ 28.816197] b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 28.816203] b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 28.816300] ADDRCONF(
[ 39.072031] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Release Date: 10/18/2004
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Product Name: Inspiron 5100
Serial Number: FV5WK31
Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Product Name: 09U808
Serial Number: .FV5WK31.
Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
Serial Number: FV5WK31
Manufacturer: Intel
Manufacturer: Not Specified
Serial Number: Not Specified
Manufacturer: Not Specified
Serial Number: Not Specified
Manufacturer: Sony
SBDS Serial Number: 9D0C
SBDS Manufacture Date: 2003-08-27
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 3148: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file ../../dbus/
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
20: PCI 201.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: rBUF.EAFiXc+XoeB
Parent ID: 6NW+.ccU5FZC1tz2
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:01.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4401 "BCM4401 100Base-T"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0149
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "b44"
Driver Modules: "ssb", "b44"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xfaffe000-
IRQ: 7 (2589 events)
HW Address: 00:0d:56:37:c9:50
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: b44 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)
23: PCI 300.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: svHJ.fB4Bfo6aTRD
Parent ID: UVH2.f5OV9vsgt5E
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Netgear WG511 Wireless Adapter"
Vendor: pci 0x1260 "Intersil Corporation"
Device: pci 0x3890 "ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1385 "Netgear"
SubDevice: pci 0x4800 "WG511 Wireless Adapter"
Revision: 0x01
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0x28000000-
IRQ: 11 (1228 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001260d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: prism54 is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe prism54"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: p54pci is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe p54pci"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #21 (CardBus bridge)
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root 758 0.0 0.7 26772 3768 ? Ssl 19:58 0:00 NetworkManager
root 949 0.0 0.1 2736 592 ? S 19:58 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/lib/
joe 3160 0.0 0.1 4444 788 pts/0 S+ 20:05 0:00 egrep --color=auto icd|etwork
Module Size Used by
bnep 17923 2
bluetooth 148839 7 bnep
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
p54pci 17098 0
p54common 32741 1 p54pci
crc_ccitt 12595 1 p54common
mac80211 393459 2 p54pci,p54common
cfg80211 172392 2 p54common,mac80211
snd_intel8x0 33318 2
snd_ac97_codec 106082 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
binfmt_misc 17292 1
snd_pcm 80468 2 snd_intel8x0,
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
pcmcia 39822 0
radeon 925094 2
snd_rawmidi 25241 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 17393 0
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_
yenta_socket 27428 0
snd_timer 28932 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
pcmcia_rsrc 18367 1 yenta_socket
ttm 65224 1 radeon
psmouse 73673 0
serio_raw 12990 0
drm_kms_helper 32889 1 radeon
drm 192226 4 radeon,
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_
pcmcia_core 21511 3 pcmcia,
dcdbas 14098 0
snd 55902 11 snd_intel8x0,
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 radeon
soundcore 12600 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_intel8x0,
video 18908 0
shpchp 32356 0
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
firewire_ohci 35854 0
firewire_core 56937 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
b44 31443 0
ssb 50682 1 b44
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