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Wifi not working on Tosiba C660D Linux Mint 9 Isadora

Hi,

I installed Linux Mint 9 Isadora on my old Toshiba C660D laptop. The Wifi seems to connect but as soon as i open a link in the browser, the connections disconnects.
Please find results for this command

Thanks in advance.

lspci -vnn

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fdc0]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at d0004000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8184]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192CE
Kernel modules: r8192ce_pci

Hi:

Linux Mint 9 is no longer supported.

It would be best for you to install the most current version of Linux Mint 17.
The newest version of LM should work on your Toshiba laptop-:)

Make sure you pick the right download for your computers architecture. (32-bit or 64-bit)
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Hi Ztcoracat,

Thank you very much for your reply.

My problem is, if i install anything above Linux Mint 9 the display does not work. I am not able to explain technically, but i have tried several distributions and they all have the same problem, this is the latest version that my laptop works (Toshiba C660D - screen damaged, so using an old Benq FP91G+ monitor, i have tried other monitors all have same problem.) The display is unreadable.

Please let me know if there is anything i can do.

Thanks again.

Quote:

Please let me know if there is anything i can do.

You could have mentioned you are trying to run a newer wireless component than the computer came with. Ergo:

" I have a newer wireless N addon on my older computer made by blah blah blah on a Mint 9 install and I cannot connect. Here are the specs."

Code:

lsusb

Code:

lspci -nnn -k

From this

Code:

10ec:8176

I figured out you are running the below
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x

You are running wireless N which is newer than the kernel in Mint 9 and Libraries in Mint 9 are going to stop you also maybe from getting that wireless N usb chip to work in Mint 9 to work.

Here is what you can do in Mint 9 to give info on your graphics for members to give a informed recommendation for a distro on what you should do on the boot screen for a live session. Using Boot cheat codes for using Vesa driver.

Code:

xvidtune -show

Code:

glxinfo | grep -i "direct rendering"

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "dri" | grep -v -i "driver"

Personally. I figure you are a Puppy Linux candidate with using the XVESA boot option . Because you are a new linux user on that Toshiba 660D .
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtop...7d303494e81790

But maybe a newer Kernel install in Mint 9 may work also. But just a off the cuff guess on my part
http://mintguide.org/system/352-inst...entary-os.html

But I cannot guarantee that any of this will work on Mint 9. You present so many problems in this thread to overcome.
So this will be my only post in this thread. I think I provided enough info that you left out for other members to help you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji (Post 5439032)

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "dri" | grep -v -i "driver"

A cat and two greps can be easily reduced to just a grep for that one:

Code:

$ grep -Ei 'dri[^v]|\(w|\(e' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(and we can pull out any warnings and errors at the same time)

Also for glxinfo it can be helpful to grep for the OpenGL renderer string - and the following should pick that up:

Code:

$ glxinfo | grep -Ei 'render[ei]'

Would be useful to know the kernel version as well:

Code:

$ uname -a

laptop freezes now.

Hi rokytnji, cynwulf,

Thank you very much for your replies.

I am an absolute beginner and want to apologise for the nature of the quires.

I was trying to use the wireless that came with the Laptop and not anything external.

I tried all the commands mentioned and had saved the outputs in a file on my system.

Not sure what happened, but now the keyboard and mouse becomes inactive soon after the login screen appears, i have tried several times but no success.

I will now try to recover my laptop and when successful, get back on the result so of the commands.

Thanks a lot for your advice and patience.

Thanks.

Have you tried reinstalling the driver "rtl8192CE" ?. If there any syslog entry related to this driver?

If the RTL8192CE is installed it would reflect in the output of lsmod.