Ubuntu Truemobile 1150 WIFI troubles

toxin · 05-03-2006, 05:49 PM

When I first installed ubuntu on my new laptop I had troubles connecting to my network. I posted on ubuntuforums.org but had no luck in finding help that worked. Ill post everything I posted there so if anyone can help me, they will have a better chance at understanding what's wrong and how to help.

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I just recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop. The wifi does not connect. I typed in the WEP code and the SSID but it does not connect. If I plug in my laptop, via a regular ehternet cable, I activate the eth0 and it works. I have a truemobile 1150 wireless card. Can anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance.

The reason the eth2 says NETGEAR2 is because I filled out the info and the WEP code in the Network settings thing and activated it.

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Okay, here's the info from typing iwconfig into the terminal:
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lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"NETGEAR2" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Power Management

ff
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

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Ok, I followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper? and understood how to everything and was, most likely doing everything correctly. I couldn't find my exact driver on the list of drivers, so I tried out a number of other drivers that were similar to mine. None worked. I then went onto my other windows computer, put the Truemobile 1150 series Wireless LAN cd into the cd drive and explored it. I found the need .inf file and saved it onto a flash drive. I took the flash drive, put it into my laptop and tried using the .inf file in the ndisgtk thing. Didn't work. I then put the cd into my laptop and tried installing it onto the laptop with wine. I accidently installed the files onto the C:\ drive in wine, which, I assume cannot be accessed through ubuntu. So I deleted the folders that were installed through the cd, and then tried installing it again, but in Ubuntu(My Documents). It then says that I already have it installed(I didn't actually uninstall it).
Is there any way I can be able to install it again, but on ubuntu, or does anyone have the needed drivers(Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series Mini PCI Card)?

Lenard · 05-04-2006, 01:13 PM

And which wireless device is it???? No not the "brand name" get the information from the command; lspci -v

Use the information from the output and check again at the ndisrwapper site.

FYI: the old Dell 1150 pcmcia card I still have works just fine with the orinoco_cs driver, no ndiswrapper needed. Have you tried using something like;

locate orinoco*.ko[.o]
modprobe -v orinoco

toxin · 05-11-2006, 07:35 PM

I hope this will help. :/
locate orinoco.ko output:

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locate orinoco.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.ko
/orinoco/backup/orinoco.ko

locate orinoco output:

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locate orinoco
/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.ko/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.ko/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_tmd.ko/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_cs.ko/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_tmd.ko

lspci -v output:

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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corp. Latitude C640
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]

0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 42) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=10, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000ffff
Memory behind bridge: f4000000-fbffffff

0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Intel Corp. Latitude C640
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Cirrus Logic: Unknown device 5959
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc80 [size=64]

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e3
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec80 [size=128]
Memory at f8fffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at f9000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 20001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 20400000-207ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 20800000-20bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e3
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at 20002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 20c00000-20fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 21000000-213ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lucent Technologies: Unknown device ab01
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
Memory at 20003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=0b, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 21400000-217ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 21800000-21bff000
I/O window 0: 00005000-000050ff
I/O window 1: 00005400-000054ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 (rev 03) Subsystem: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 10/100
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4000 [size=128]
Memory at 20800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at 20800800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Expansion ROM at 20400000 [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:03:00.1 Serial controller: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + 56k Modem (rev 03) (pr og-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Xircom CBEM56G-100 Ethernet + 56k Modem
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 4080 [size=8]
Memory at 20801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at 20801800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Expansion ROM at 20404000 [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Lenard · 05-11-2006, 08:16 PM

This helps;

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0000:02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lucent Technologies: Unknown device ab01

It seems you may need to you the prism54 driver and have the firmware file (isl3890) in
someplace like the /lib/firmware directory location.

Download (Version 1.0.4.3) and rename (to isl3890) the 1.0.4.3.arm file from;

http://prism54.org/fullmac.html

toxin · 05-14-2006, 04:44 PM

I download the 1.0.4.3.arm file, renamed it to isl3890.arm and added it to the firmware folder. I restarted, and nothing changed. My connection could still not be made.

toxin · 05-15-2006, 05:48 PM

Should I of not renamed it to isl3890.arm and to something else?