[SOLVED] wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
[SOLVED] wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Hello again forum. I have a new problem. I just got a new laptop, a Toshiba Portege R705, which has an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 AGN wireless adapter. Salix installed just fine, but my wireless connection is not working, and I assume this is because it does not have the right driver. Upon some research, I think I need iwlwifi6000. Is this available for Salix?
Last edited by dimebag on 17. Oct 2010, 03:21, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Please enter these two: and post here the outputs. and also please post links to the relevant pages.
My outputs:
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$ /sbin/lspci | grep Network
$ /sbin/lspci -vnn | grep Network
My outputs:
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etf[~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
etf[~]$ /sbin/lspci -vnn | grep Network
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
etf[~]$
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Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
zAchAry,
Here are the outputs for the two commands that you suggested I enter:
/sbin/lspci | grep Network (produced the following)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiMAX/Wifi Link 6050 Series (rev 5f)
/sbin/lspci -vnn | grep Network (produced the following)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10eb] (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiMAX/Wifi Link 6050 Series [8086:0087] (rev 5f)
Here are the outputs for the two commands that you suggested I enter:
/sbin/lspci | grep Network (produced the following)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiMAX/Wifi Link 6050 Series (rev 5f)
/sbin/lspci -vnn | grep Network (produced the following)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10eb] (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiMAX/Wifi Link 6050 Series [8086:0087] (rev 5f)
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Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Links I've found:
http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IWLAGN.html
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2 ... 00335.html
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... nth=200912
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s ... ion/120799
Packages in the repository:
It is in:
Waiting for someone from the SalixOS team to show up
http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IWLAGN.html
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2 ... 00335.html
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... nth=200912
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s ... ion/120799
Packages in the repository:
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etf[~]$ /usr/sbin/slapt-get -se iwlagn
iwlwifi-1000-ucode-128.50.3.1-fw-1 [inst=yes]: iwlwifi-1000-ucode (Intel 1000 wireless microcode)
iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.24.2.12-fw-1 [inst=yes]: iwlwifi-5000-ucode (Intel 5000 wireless microcode)
iwlwifi-5150-ucode-8.24.2.2-fw-1 [inst=yes]: iwlwifi-5150-ucode (Intel 5150 wireless microcode)
iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.193.4.1-fw-1 [inst=yes]: iwlwifi-6000-ucode (Intel 6000 wireless microcode)
etf[~]$
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iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.193.4.1-fw-1 [inst=yes]: iwlwifi-6000-ucode (Intel 6000 wireless microcode)
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Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
zAchAry,
Apparently, I need the iwlwifi-6050 driver, according to the following web link:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads
Hopefully, someone from the Salix team saves the day and can instruct me on what needs to be done.
Apparently, I need the iwlwifi-6050 driver, according to the following web link:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads
Hopefully, someone from the Salix team saves the day and can instruct me on what needs to be done.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.- Abraham Lincoln
Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Just download the respective tarball, extract the .ucode file in it and put it in your system's /lib/firmware/.
Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
With what? Thunar?gapan wrote:Just download the respective tarball, extract the .ucode file in it and put it in your system's /lib/firmware/.
IMHO, it is not matter if the user is a beginner or a professional, it would be most appropriate to submit a command-line to do the wanted action
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# install -m 0644 ./iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode /lib/firmware/
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Re: wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Gapan, thanks for the instructions and the reply! zAchAry, for some reason, the command-line you suggested did not work. I tried to extract the iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode from the package I downloaded from intellinuxwireless.org, and move it to /lib/firmware, but I was met with a message stating I did not have root privileges to execute the action. So I did some research on how to move files from one directory to another using root privileges and found the following command-lines:
sudo mv <file name> <directory>
gksudo thunar
I attempted the former (sudo mv), and got my wireless card working! Here is what I did, step by step, for fellow noobs like myself:
1. Download required package from intellinuxwireless.org (in my case iwlwifi-6050-9.201.4.1.tgz
2. Extract the iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode file from the .tgz to desktop.
3. Open terminal, type: cd Desktop
4. Then type: sudo mv iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode /lib/firmware
5. Exit terminal, verify that the .ucode file is indeed in /lib/firmware directory.
6. Try wifi connection, and verify that it works.
And it did in fact work! Now my wifi connection is up and running and I am super stoked!
sudo mv <file name> <directory>
gksudo thunar
I attempted the former (sudo mv), and got my wireless card working! Here is what I did, step by step, for fellow noobs like myself:
1. Download required package from intellinuxwireless.org (in my case iwlwifi-6050-9.201.4.1.tgz
2. Extract the iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode file from the .tgz to desktop.
3. Open terminal, type: cd Desktop
4. Then type: sudo mv iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode /lib/firmware
5. Exit terminal, verify that the .ucode file is indeed in /lib/firmware directory.
6. Try wifi connection, and verify that it works.
And it did in fact work! Now my wifi connection is up and running and I am super stoked!
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.- Abraham Lincoln
Re: [SOLVED] wifi not working on toshiba portege r705
Or you could have executed the following command before executing Zachary's one:
This would have issued the root password request & you would have then be allowed to run the initial command with root privilege.
Please note the symbol $ at the beginning of my command & the symbol # at the beginning of Zachary's command. Those symbols are actually not part of the command & are not meant to be executed. They only show the status of the user executing the command. # for root, $ for regular user. Those are actually part of the Shell prompt which changes when you switch from regular user to root & vice-versa. When you see these symbols in a how-to or in some forum posts, they are only meant to indicate whether you should execute the piece of code that follows as root or as a regular user.
You will find helpful reading material for Linux beginners here -> http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 52&start=0
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$ su
Please note the symbol $ at the beginning of my command & the symbol # at the beginning of Zachary's command. Those symbols are actually not part of the command & are not meant to be executed. They only show the status of the user executing the command. # for root, $ for regular user. Those are actually part of the Shell prompt which changes when you switch from regular user to root & vice-versa. When you see these symbols in a how-to or in some forum posts, they are only meant to indicate whether you should execute the piece of code that follows as root or as a regular user.
You will find helpful reading material for Linux beginners here -> http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 52&start=0
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