p54pci 0000:03:00.0: Cannot find firmware (isl3886pci) -> UNCLAIMED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] [1260:3890] (rev 01) - driver not enabled because firmware for wireless could not be found in Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by benito

When trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 no LAN PCI Card is detected
I can only connect via Wifi Receptor USB
Reading some similar quesdtions I found you ask for some information below
That is
Thanks and forgive my poor english
The card is
802.11g Wireless LAN PCI Card
Link:
http://www.teletronics.com/WLPCIcard.html
I only find drivers for Windows.

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
benito@benito-desktop:~$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for benito:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
benito@benito-desktop:~$ ^C
benito@benito-desktop:~$
benito@benito-desktop:~$ sudo lshw
benito-desktop
    description: Desktop Computer
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.2 dmi-2.2 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=1 uuid=00000000-0000-0000-0000-00508D6A9D82
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: IS7-V2 (Intel i848P-ICH5)
       vendor: http://www.abit.com.tw/
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: 6.00 PG
          date: 08/17/2004
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 15.4.1
          serial: 0000-0F41-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: Socket 478
          size: 3060MHz
          capacity: 4GHz
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 204MHz
          capabilities: boot 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 pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid xtpr
          configuration: id=0
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 8
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 32KiB
             capacity: 32KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 9
             slot: External Cache
             size: 1MiB
             capacity: 1MiB
             capabilities: synchronous external write-back
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.1
             width: 32 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.2
             width: 32 bits
             capabilities: logical
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1b
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 1GiB
          capacity: 2GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
             physical id: 0
             slot: A0
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
             physical id: 1
             slot: A1
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 02
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
          resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e7ffffff
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
             resources: ioport:9000(size=4096) memory:f8000000-f9ffffff memory:e8000000-f7ffffff
           *-display:0
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: agp agp-3.0 pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=radeon latency=32 mingnt=8
                resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff ioport:9000(size=256) memory:f9000000-f900ffff memory:f8000000-f801ffff
           *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
                description: Display controller
                product: RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary)
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm cap_list
                configuration: latency=32 mingnt=8
                resources: memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:f9010000-f901ffff
        *-generic UNCLAIMED
             description: System peripheral
             product: 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:fecf0000-fecf0fff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:16 ioport:bc00(size=32)
        *-usb:1
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:b000(size=32)
        *-usb:2
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:b400(size=32)
        *-usb:3
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: uhci bus_master
             configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:16 ioport:b800(size=32)
        *-usb:4
             description: USB Controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1d.7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
             resources: irq:23 memory:fa100000-fa1003ff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82801 PCI Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1e
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
             version: c2
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
             resources: ioport:a000(size=4096) memory:fa000000-fa0fffff
           *-network:0
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 2
                bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 10
                serial: 00:50:8d:6a:9d:82
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 100Mbit/s
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:18 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:fa002000-fa0020ff
           *-network:1 UNCLAIMED
                description: Network controller
                product: ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow]
                vendor: Intersil Corporation
                physical id: 4
                bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm cap_list
                configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
                resources: memory:fa000000-fa001fff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide:0
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f000(size=16) memory:40000000-400003ff
           *-cdrom:0
                description: DVD-RAM writer
                product: DVD-RAM GH22NP20
                vendor: HL-DT-ST
                physical id: 0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/scd0
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: 1.03
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: Maxtor 6Y080L0
                vendor: Maxtor
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sda
                version: YAR4
                serial: Y21FEV8E
                size: 76GiB (81GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=0007af2c
              *-volume:0
                   description: EXT4 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sda1
                   logical name: /
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: 2c80f7e1-ef83-4629-b46c-f969e2fad599
                   size: 75GiB
                   capacity: 75GiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2011-12-28 21:35:54 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2011-12-28 20:41:46 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2011-12-28 20:41:46 state=mounted
              *-volume:1
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sda2
                   size: 1022MiB
                   capacity: 1022MiB
                   capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
                 *-logicalvolume
                      description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                      physical id: 5
                      logical name: /dev/sda5
                      capacity: 1022MiB
                      capabilities: nofs
           *-cdrom:1
                description: DVD reader
                product: DROM5016L
                vendor: PHILIPS
                physical id: 0.1.0
                bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom1
                logical name: /dev/dvd1
                logical name: /dev/scd1
                logical name: /dev/sr1
                version: 95S1
                capabilities: removable audio dvd
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
        *-ide:1
             description: IDE interface
             product: 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide bus_master
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:18 ioport:c000(size=8) ioport:c400(size=4) ioport:c800(size=8) ioport:cc00(size=4) ioport:d000(size=16)
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: ioport:500(size=32)
        *-multimedia
             description: Multimedia audio controller
             product: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5
             version: 02
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0
             resources: irq:17 ioport:d800(size=256) ioport:dc00(size=64) memory:fa101000-fa1011ff memory:fa102000-fa1020ff
benito@benito-desktop:~$ sudo lspci

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

           *-network:1 UNCLAIMED
                description: Network controller
                product: ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow]
                vendor: Intersil Corporation
                physical id: 4
                bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm cap_list
                configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10
                resources: memory:fa000000-fa001fff

It's a ISL3890 chip, you want the driver for that.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#2

Can you give the output of:

sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
#3

Please see the solution from Chase Douglas at this location:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/515424

Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

Then reboot and retest wireless.

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benito (bsrgb) said :
#4

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.