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#1
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Registered: Jan 2014
Posts: 44
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Mint17 Dell wireless 1450 not working
Just upgraded to Mint 17 from 15, all worked well there. I wrote down all the info I needed for the wireless connection. It doesnt work on 17. lsusb lists the Dell 1450. I installed the firmware b43 installer. dmesg for p54 says "registered new interface driver p54usb". When I do a modprob for p54 it is not found. Does anyone have any idea of what ive missed or done wrong. Appreciate help before I trip over the lan cable and break my toes
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Forgot to mention that I have a dual boot with XP and it works fine there.
Last edited by seenab; 01-13-2015 at 09:20 AM .
Reason: More info
#2
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,850
Rep:
Are there any drivers for your wireless in the Driver Manager, Menu > Control Center > Driver Manager? You might miss some driver.
#3
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Registered: Jan 2014
Posts: 44
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All I get from the driver manager (am connected via lan cable on that PC) is No proprietary drivers in use.
#4
LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,109
can be run in terminal to give info in this thread as well as
#5
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Registered: Jan 2014
Posts: 44
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here is the result from mintwifi, Will do an extra post for inxi as it is rather large.
#6
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Registered: Jan 2014
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Here comes inxi (had to use libreoffice for formating, doesnt look too forbidding). Hope this helps
#7
LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,109
Not sure what happened on the above post.
How I expected it to look. Using code tags so it is readable.
Code:
$ inxi -zv7
System: Host: harry-Latitude-XT2 Kernel: 3.18.0-linuxlite i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Xfce 4.11.6 (Gtk 2.24.23) info: xfce4-panel dm: lightdm
Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Latitude XT2 Chassis: type: 8
Mobo: Dell model: 0HJ48R Bios: Dell v: A01 date: 05/07/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo U9600 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 6379
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1200 MHz
Memory: Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2a42
Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x800@60.1hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express x86/MMX/SSE2
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.18.0-linuxlite
Network: Card-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
driver: e1000e v: 2.3.2-k port: efe0
bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10f5
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100
driver: iwlwifi v: in-tree: bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4232
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 180.0GB (20.2% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: D2CSTK181M11 size: 180.0GB serial: OCZ-OQ3UU619XQCH1EJ6
Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 8.6G used: 5.0G (62%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
label: N/A uuid: 99517a34-0f9f-42d4-af4c-82ae817fb057
ID-2: /home size: 157G used: 29G (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
label: N/A uuid: 52dc4336-761c-4976-ac02-0851fa022abc
RAID: System: supported: N/A
No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 173 Uptime: 1:01 Memory: 398.7/5016.9MB
Init: Upstart v: 1.12.1 runlevel: 2 default: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111 running in x-terminal-emul) inxi: 2.2.1
Mainly looking for this part
Code:
Card-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100
driver: iwlwifi v: in-tree: bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4232
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
I am afeared to ask for a lsusb -v report because it is even bigger than a inxi report.
How about a
Code:
sudo dmesg | grep firmware
instead? You need the wireless usb plugged in with a fresh boot up to run the above command.
also
will help your cause also. mintwifi showed no wirless at all in its report.
#8
LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,109
Quote:
#[1;34m #[0;37m #[1;34mIF:#[0;37m eth0 #[1;34mstate:#[0;37m up #[1;34mspeed:#[0;37m 100 Mbps #[1;34mduplex:#[0;37m full #[1;34mmac:#[0;37m <filter>
Trying to make sense out of this mess.
#9
LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,109
Well, usually Mint supplies nonfree stuff in it's isos.
Did you md5sum check your iso before burning and installing?
only other thing I can think of is
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
and then reboot.
#10
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,850
Rep:
It look like the wireless 1450 driver, p54, isn't installed. You might isntall it manully, from apt-get or CD.
#11
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Registered: Jan 2014
Posts: 44
Original Poster
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Thanks enormously. The dmesg for firmware did it. There was an error at installation. Works great now. By the way adding the -c 0 to inxi produces a monochome output which is much better to redirect. Thank you again for all the work you put into it.
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