Wireless lost on PCLinuxOS
 

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop that worked on wireless when new. All of a sudden the wireless stopped working. Give me some help how to start the wireless working again.

For future reference, please read the information here and here. It's important to include any as many details as possible. ;)

Was there anything that might have caused this event, such as any updates or software changes? Also, please open a terminal and post the entire results of these commands (no screenshots, please)...

If this a USB adapter, please use...

Please also post the results of...

The last one might be quite large. feel free to use two individual posts, if necessary. ;)

Thanks :)

The laptop locked up and the screen did not work so I had to turn off the start switch and start it again to get it all working. This happened occasionally and never caused any problem but this time the wireless did not work. I have wireless for internet access and the printer. Nothing worked so I had to connect the cable to use the laptop. When I try to list the wireless signals nothing comes up. Usually I have 10-15 wireless shown on the screen one of which is mine. I have another laptop and it works fine, as well as my wife who has a Microsoft desktop and she has wireless internet and printer okay. I will start connecting the terminal and send replies later.

Thanks for the help.

Hi...

You may have misunderstood what I meant by "opening a terminal." A terminal is program that allows you to perform a task by a CLI (Command Line Interface.) In PCLinuxOS, a preinstalled (or currently installed) terminal might be "xterm" or "konsole." I'm not sure where a terminal would be located under the start menu in PCLinuxOS but an article that describes the basics can be found here. :)

Regards...

I am familiar with terminal and can find it and know how to post a symbol... however I can not find an easy way to copy the contents of a specific message like you have asked me to post here. Excuse my ignorance but there should be an easy way to do that... please explain.

I'm going to assume that you left the machine off for a significant period of time... In that case, it is likely that the laptop "lost" the wireless card... What happens is that the wireless card shuts down and does not start back up at cold boot. Since it isn't powered, Linux doesn't "find" it, turn it on and load the driver modules... It needs to be reactivated, and short of hacking together a Linux version of the MS program that likely does this in Windows (without any documentation, by the way,... a near impossible task), the way to do this is in hardware...

Try restarting the machine and using the Fn keys to activate wireless before the BIOS has finished and turned the system over to the bootloader...

I'm hoping it will be easy. Open a terminal and copy and paste the commands I mentioned above into the terminal and then press "Enter." Then copy and paste the results into your next post using the code tags (the number symbol or "#" button) directly above the text window of the post you are writing in. See an example of copying and pasting here. :)

Regards...

Here is one reply. The lspci -nkk l grep -net -Az you gave me did not work. I substituted l in the middle and it worked ok.

lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_usb_audio 105792 0
snd_usbmidi_lib 15992 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 15808 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
af_packet 24920 4
pci_stub 1080 1
vboxpci 11504 0
vboxnetadp 17200 0
vboxnetflt 14000 0
vboxdrv 226104 3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
ipv6 293216 34
cpufreq_ondemand 5756 4
binfmt_misc 6084 1
dm_mod 68552 0
loop 15924 0
nvram 4676 0
fuse 63024 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 35672 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 27161 1
snd_hda_intel 31256 5
snd_hda_codec 116736 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
uvcvideo 66112 0
snd_hwdep 5056 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
videobuf2_core 24572 1 uvcvideo
videodev 96960 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
media 8964 2 uvcvideo,videodev
videobuf2_vmalloc 2136 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 1464 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
snd_seq_dummy 1081 0
snd_seq_oss 23108 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4152 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 40672 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 3880 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 34048 0
snd_pcm 64832 5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 15944 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 13080 1 snd_pcm_oss
i2c_piix4 8116 0
snd 49192 25 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd _hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
hid_generic 920 0
ghash_clmulni_intel 3416 0
crc32c_intel 8504 0
aesni_intel 39704 0
ablk_helper 1400 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 4928 3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
lrw 2776 1 aesni_intel
gf128mul 4632 1 lrw
glue_helper 3704 1 aesni_intel
aes_x86_64 6872 1 aesni_intel
kvm_amd 40872 0
kvm 234642 1 kvm_amd
soundcore 4256 1 snd
i2c_core 16688 2 videodev,i2c_piix4
snd_page_alloc 5992 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sr_mod 13636 0
r8169 49052 0
cdrom 32220 1 sr_mod
toshiba_acpi 11560 0
sparse_keymap 2264 1 toshiba_acpi
bcma 27816 0
wmi 7098 1 toshiba_acpi
sg 25896 0
acpi_cpufreq 6238 0
toshiba_bluetooth 1656 0
mii 3384 1 r8169
ehci_pci 3128 0
xhci_hcd 89628 0
battery 10085 0
processor 20000 5 acpi_cpufreq
fan 1976 0
video 9296 0
thermal 10448 0
button 3632 0
ac 3428 0
joydev 8536 0
evdev 10240 26
ata_piix 22268 0
ahci 22269 3
libahci 18464 1 ahci
libata 144976 3 ata_piix,ahci,libahci
sd_mod 34448 4
scsi_mod 135488 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif 736 1 sd_mod
crct10dif_common 1144 1 crc_t10dif
ext4 298576 2
jbd2 50664 1 ext4
crc16 1144 1 ext4
uhci_hcd 20408 0
ohci_hcd 17753 0
ehci_hcd 36513 1 ehci_pci
usbhid 31776 0
hid 84072 2 hid_generic,usbhid
usbcore 135312 9 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,uvcvideo,ehci_pci,xhci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid
usb_common 1304 1 usbcore
[jim4305@localhost ~]$

That's because what you typed above is not the correct command. Try the command again...

This has to be exact so if you need to, please copy and paste it. I will also need the results of the rest of the commands. ;)

Just to be sure, how was PCLinuxOS installed, on your laptop's hard drive or on a VM as a client or guest operating system?

Regards...

Yrs, I did type the lspci version so must have not done it right. I will copy it and try again.

I downloaded the PCLinuxOS myself... used a dvd from OS Disc.com. Erased everything and loaded the PSLinuxOS on the hard disc. I have used OS Disc many times including the old Lenovo ThinkPad laptop I bought used online. No battery with the ThinkPad but it still works fine in my apt and downstairs in the lobby where I sent the data today.

lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff1e]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
--
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6655]
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge

lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 10f1:1a5b Importek
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0930:0225 Toshiba Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[jim4305@localhost ~]$ rfkill list
bash: rfkill: command not found
[jim4305@localhost ~]$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.12.18-pclos2 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.7.2 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 26 17:33:48 CDT 2014
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=480d1c63-78fe-46e8-8814-0149ade76594 quiet nokmsboot resume=UUID=535856a0-3872-4f6d-850e-4124e5025b5c splash=silent vga=788
[ 0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009f3ff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009f400-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000097c63fff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000097c64000-0x000000009856bfff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009856c000-0x000000009f6befff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009f6bf000-0x000000009fabefff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fabf000-0x000000009fbbefff] ACPI NVS
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fbbf000-0x000000009fbfefff] ACPI data
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fbff000-0x000000009fbfffff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fc00000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f2800000-0x00000000f28fffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec01fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec10000-0x00000000fec10fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed80000-0x00000000fed80fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff800000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000021effffff] usable
[ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[ 0.000000] SMBIOS 2.8 present.
[ 0.000000] DMI: TOSHIBA Satellite C75D-B/Portable PC, BIOS 1.40 11/03/2014
[ 0.000000] e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
[ 0.000000] e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x21f000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[ 0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable
[ 0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 00000-9FFFF write-back
[ 0.000000] A0000-BFFFF uncachable
[ 0.000000] C0000-FFFFF write-through
[ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 0 base 0000000000 mask FF80000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 1 base 0080000000 mask FFE0000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 2 base 009FBA8000 mask FFFFFFF000 uncachable
[ 0.000000] 3 base 00FF800000 mask FFFF800000 write-protect
[ 0.000000] 4 disabled

[jim4305@localhost ~]$ rfkill list
bash: rfkill: command not found


[jim4305@localhost ~]$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.12.18-pclos2 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.7.2 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 26 17:33:48 CDT 2014
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=480d1c63-78fe-46e8-8814-0149ade76594 quiet nokmsboot resume=UUID=535856a0-3872-4f6d-850e-4124e5025b5c splash=silent vga=788
[ 0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009f3ff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009f400-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000097c63fff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000097c64000-0x000000009856bfff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009856c000-0x000000009f6befff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009f6bf000-0x000000009fabefff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fabf000-0x000000009fbbefff] ACPI NVS
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fbbf000-0x000000009fbfefff] ACPI data
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fbff000-0x000000009fbfffff] usable
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000009fc00000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f2800000-0x00000000f28fffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec01fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec10000-0x00000000fec10fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed80000-0x00000000fed80fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff800000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000021effffff] usable
[ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[ 0.000000] SMBIOS 2.8 present.
[ 0.000000] DMI: TOSHIBA Satellite C75D-B/Portable PC, BIOS 1.40 11/03/2014
[ 0.000000] e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
[ 0.000000] e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x21f000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[ 0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable
[ 0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 00000-9FFFF write-back
[ 0.000000] A0000-BFFFF uncachable
[ 0.000000] C0000-FFFFF write-through
[ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 0 base 0000000000 mask FF80000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 1 base 0080000000 mask FFE0000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 2 base 009FBA8000 mask FFFFFFF000 uncachable
[ 0.000000] 3 base 00FF800000 mask FFFF800000 write-protect
[ 0.000000] 4 disabled
[ 0.000000] 5 disabled
[ 0.000000] 6 disabled
[ 0.000000] 7 disabled
[ 0.000000] TOM2: 000000021f000000 aka 8688M
[ 0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
[ 0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x9fc00 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[ 0.000000] Base memory trampoline at [ffff880000099000] 99000 size 24576
[ 0.000000] Using GB pages for direct mapping
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x0176c000, 0x0176cfff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x0176d000, 0x0176dfff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x0176e000, 0x0176efff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x21ee00000-0x21effffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x21ee00000-0x21effffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x0176f000, 0x0176ffff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x21c000000-0x21edfffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x21c000000-0x21edfffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x200000000-0x21bffffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x200000000-0x21bffffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00100000-0x97c63fff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x00200000-0x3fffffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x40000000-0x7fffffff] page 1G
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x80000000-0x97bfffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x97c00000-0x97c63fff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x9856c000-0x9f6befff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x9856c000-0x985fffff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x98600000-0x9f5fffff] page 2M
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x9f600000-0x9f6befff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x01770000, 0x01770fff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] BRK [0x01771000, 0x01771fff] PGTABLE
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x9fbff000-0x9fbfffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x9fbff000-0x9fbfffff] page 4k
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x100000000-0x1ffffffff]
[ 0.000000] [mem 0x100000000-0x1ffffffff] page 1G
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x3772c000-0x37feffff]
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000fe020 00024 (v02 TOSINV)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 000000009fbfe120 000BC (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 01000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000000009fbfc000 0010C (v05 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000000009fbf2000 05F3F (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 F0000000 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000000009fb5f000 00040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: UEFI 000000009fbfd000 00236 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 000000009fbfb000 00038 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 000000009fbfa000 00090 (v03 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 000000009fbf9000 0003C (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: ASF! 000000009fbf8000 000A5 (v32 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 000000009fbf1000 00028 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 000000009fbf0000 00176 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FPDT 000000009fbee000 00044 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MSDM 000000009fbed000 00055 (v03 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbe6000 06D71 (v01 TOSINV TsbOdm 00001000 INTL 20120215)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbe5000 00B0C (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbe0000 0487A (v02 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000002 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbdf000 0085A (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbde000 00418 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbdc000 01309 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbdb000 0008C (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbd9000 01138 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000009fbd8000 00FB4 (v01 TOSINV TOSINV00 00000001 ACPI 00040000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000021effffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x21effffff]
[ 0.000000] NODE_DATA [mem 0x21eff8000-0x21effcfff]
[ 0.000000] [ffffea0000000000-ffffea00087fffff] PMD -> [ffff880217600000-ffff88021e5fffff] on node 0
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA [mem 0x00001000-0x00ffffff]
[ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x01000000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x100000000-0x21effffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00001000-0x0009efff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00100000-0x97c63fff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x9856c000-0x9f6befff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x9fbff000-0x9fbfffff]
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x100000000-0x21effffff]
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 1826134
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 64 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 21 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3998 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] DMA32 zone: 10103 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA32 zone: 646584 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 18368 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1175552 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfec01000] gsi_base[24])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 33, address 0xfec01000, GSI 24-55
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x10228210 base: 0xfed00000
[ 0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 72
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x0009f000-0x0009ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000dffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000e0000-0x000fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x97c64000-0x9856bfff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x9f6bf000-0x9fabefff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x9fabf000-0x9fbbefff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x9fbbf000-0x9fbfefff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x9fc00000-0xdfffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xe0000000-0xf27fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf2800000-0xf28fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf2900000-0xf7ffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfc000000-0xfebfffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec01fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec02000-0xfec0ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec10000-0xfec10fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec11000-0xfed7ffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed80000-0xfed80fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed81000-0xfedfffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee01000-0xff7fffff]
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xff800000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.000000] e820: [mem 0xe0000000-0xf27fffff] available for PCI devices
[ 0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 nr_cpu_ids:4 nr_node_ids:1
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 26 pages/cpu @ffff88021ec00000 s76160 r8192 d22144 u524288
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s76160 r8192 d22144 u524288 alloc=1*2097152
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1797578
[ 0.000000] Policy zone: Normal
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=480d1c63-78fe-46e8-8814-0149ade76594 quiet nokmsboot resume=UUID=535856a0-3872-4f6d-850e-4124e5025b5c splash=silent vga=788
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] xsave: enabled xstate_bv 0x7, cntxt size 0x340
[ 0.000000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
[ 0.000000] Calgary: Unable to locate Rio Grande table in EBDA - bailing!
[ 0.000000] Memory: 7106508K/7304536K available (4720K kernel code, 458K rwdata, 964K rodata, 860K init, 556K bss, 198028K reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
[ 0.000000] Dump stacks of tasks blocking RCU-preempt GP.
[ 0.000000] RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=64 to nr_cpu_ids=4.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:4352 nr_irqs:1024 16
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000000] hpet clockevent registered
[ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[ 0.000000] tsc: Detected 1796.664 MHz processor
[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 3593.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=1796664)
[ 0.000000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000000] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys bfqio
[ 0.000000] tseg: 009fc00000
[ 0.000000] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 0.000000] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[ 0.000000] mce: CPU supports 6 MCE banks
[ 0.000000] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 8, 4MB 4
[ 0.000000] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 256, 4MB 128
[ 0.000000] tlb_flushall_shift: 5
[ 0.000000] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 16K (ffffffff816db000 - ffffffff816df000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Core revision 20130725
[ 0.000000] TOSHIBA Satellite detected - force copy of DSDT to local memory
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Forced DSDT copy: length 0x05F3F copied locally, original unmapped
[ 0.000000] ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired
[ 0.000000] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 0.000000] smpboot: CPU0: AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics (fam: 16, model: 30, stepping: 01)
[ 0.000000] Performance Events: AMD PMU driver.
[ 0.000000] ... version: 0
[ 0.000000] ... bit width: 48
[ 0.000000] ... generic registers: 4
[ 0.000000] ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff
[ 0.000000] ... max period: 00007fffffffffff
[ 0.000000] ... fixed-purpose events: 0
[ 0.000000] ... event mask: 000000000000000f
[ 0.000000] MCE: In-kernel MCE decoding enabled.
[ 0.000000] smpboot: Booting Node 0, Processors # 1 # 2 # 3 OK
[ 0.000000] Brought up 4 CPUs
[ 0.000000] smpboot: Total of 4 processors activated (14373.31 BogoMIPS)
[ 0.000000] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.000000] PM: Registering ACPI NVS region [mem 0x9fabf000-0x9fbbefff] (1048576 bytes)
[ 0.000000] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.000000] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.000000] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.000000] ACPI: bus type PCI registered
[ 0.000000] acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.5
[ 0.000000] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] (base 0xf8000000)
[ 0.000000] PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] reserved in E820
[ 0.000000] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
[ 0.000000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Executed 1 blocks of module-level executable AML code
[ 0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 0.000000] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S1_] (20130725/hwxface-571)
[ 0.000000] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, While evaluating Sleep State [\_S2_] (20130725/hwxface-571)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 0.000000] PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug
[ 0.000000] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Power Resource [PFA1] (off)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-ff])
[ 0.000000] acpi PNP0A08:00: ACPI _OSC support notification failed, disabling PCIe ASPM
[ 0.000000] acpi PNP0A08:00: Unable to request _OSC control (_OSC support mask: 0x08)
[ 0.000000] acpi PNP0A08:00: ignoring host bridge window [mem 0x000cc000-0x000cffff] (conflicts with Video ROM [mem 0x000c0000-0x000cebff])
[ 0.000000] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[ 0.000000] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.000000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.000000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0x0cf7]
[ 0.000000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0d00-0xffff]
[ 0.000000] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus

Hi...

Thank you for posting these reports and while I was able glean some important information out of them, however, the one for "dmesg," for some reason (perhaps because it was too long,) didn't provide what I needed. So, if you would, please try this command instead...

Please also include the results for...

Thanks! :)

[jim4305@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -iC 3 "bcma"
[ 0.000000] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 0.000000] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000b00-0x0000000000000b07 SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SMBS.SMB0 1 (20130725/utaddress-251)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0xA886, rev 0x01 and package 0x08
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x28, class 0x0)
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x21, class 0x0)
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev 0x16, class 0x0)
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Core 3 found: UNKNOWN (manuf 0x43B, id 0x368, rev 0x00, class 0x0)
[ 0.000000] bcma: bus0: Bus registered
[ 0.000000] kvm: Nested Virtualization enabled
[ 0.000000] kvm: Nested Paging enabled
[ 0.000000] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[jim4305@localhost ~]$

[jim4305@localhost ~]$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:8C:FA:89:EB:8C
inet addr:192.168.1.250 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2602:306:338d:25e0:28c:faff:fe89:eb8c/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::28c:faff:fe89:eb8c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:925376 (903.6 KiB) TX bytes:184831 (180.4 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)

Here are all your requests. Did you see rfkill command was not found? I copied dmesg onto a file. It is very long as you suspected. Give me an email and I could send the file to you.

Someone asked me to reboot the wireless by FN+F12 on a boot. I am familiar with the wireless and do not see any other wireless on the list as usual so it is the pc not the wireless coming into the building.

So now you have all the data tell me how I can get the wireless to work again. It sounds like the internal wireless card you mentioned before. How can I get it to work again?

Thanks for all your help.

Yes, please open the Synaptic package manager and see if the package "rfkill" is installed. If not please install it and run the command again. Post any results. :)

You might be able create a text file, copy and the paste the information on to it and then upload it as an attachment in your next post. ;)

First, install the "rfkill" package, run the command I gave you and see if there are any blocks (which I kind of doubt there will be.) Please post the results. If not, from what I see here and here, you need the "bcmwl-kernel-source" package for your wireless adapter to work. Again, please bring up Synaptic and install this package (if it isn't already) and reboot your laptop. Also, from what I understand, your adapter is a dual wireless and bluetooth device. There is a thread here concerning the bluetooth aspect of this device but from what I have read it's difficult to get it working. However, you may not have this problem or even need bluetooth functionality.

You're welcome, hope it works. :)

Regards...

I installed rfkill and here is the result.

Jim

rfkill
Usage: rfkill [options] command
Options:
--version show version (0.5)
Commands:
help
event
list [IDENTIFIER]
block IDENTIFIER
unblock IDENTIFIER
where IDENTIFIER is the index no. of an rfkill switch or one of:
<idx> all wifi wlan bluetooth uwb ultrawideband wimax wwan gps fm nfc

Hi...

You forgot the word "list"... ;)

Regards...

I use Synaptic regularly to update the files but never have done more so you need to walk me through the process to install the two files you mentioned. I see the instructions how to install but need more help than that.

I wonder... since I downloaded the PCLinuxOS from a dvd can I just re-install it again and get the system to work? I have done that before and it wiped out all old files so I could start again fresh.

I also see where they can install a new card in the laptop... would that solve the problem??

If installing the package through Synaptic will solve the problem, it shouldn't involve more than finding "bcmwl-kernel-source" in the list of packages and then marking it for installation and then installing it. It may want to grab additional packages, that's fine, let it do that. After it gets done installing, reboot your system and see if it works. ;)

Beyond that, I don't think I'll be able to help you much.

Also, what did rfkill say?

You can try that if you desire but I can't guarantee it will resolve the issue.

Not necessarily. It would be easier, I think, to purchase a USB adapter. I've had pretty good experiences with this one here. As shown in their list of supported distributions, if you are running any of the versions of PCLinuxOS below, it should work "out of the box"...

Of course, there are more brands and models to choose from but the key is to purchase an adapter that has good native support in Linux, preferably without having to install drivers. ;)

Regards...